Our trip down under continues as we jet to New Zealand for whirlwind drive south of Auckland for a day of touring Hobbiton and the set of the Shire used for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Movies.
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Episode #055: Touring Hobbiton – Click the arrow to listen to this episode
TCND Photo Album from Touring Hobbiton in New Zealand
If you’ve listened to Episode #055 of The Catholics Next Door, here are the photos that accompany our visit to Auckland, New Zealand as well as our tour of the set for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Check out the photo slideshow from our visit to New Zealand!
Join us as we go visiting Australia, walking through the streets, taking a ferry to Manley Beach, pet kangaroos and koalas, and talk new media and the Catholic faith. A jam packed show from our visit down under!
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Episode #054: Visiting Australia – Click the arrow to listen to this episode
If you’ve listened to Episode #054 of The Catholics Next Door, here are the photos that accompany our trip to Sydney, Australia. Check out the photo slideshow from our visit to Sydney!
Life changes are sometimes easy to deal with, and other times can deal a painful blow. In this episode we share both some good and bad life changes including our oldest teenager’s quest for work, progress on an exciting new life changing program Greg is working on, and Jennifer’s father’s battle with cancer and dealing with chemo and radiation treatments.
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Episode #053: Life Changes – Click the arrow to listen to this episode
Greg shares what it’s like to give a sex talk about Natural Family Planning in front of his parents, Mac Barron calls in to actually complement Greg, and Greg and Jennifer answer questions for a book about how husbands and wives can be a spiritual leader for each other and their children.
Some of the questions we discussed include:
Key differences in spiritual leadership roles between husbands and wives.
What should a husband’s/father’s leadership role look like?
What should a wife’s/mother’s leadership role look like?
Ways that husbands and wives can work together to balance their roles as spiritual leaders in your household.
What can couples do when they feel like they are ‘stepping on one another’s toes’ when it comes to one another’s spiritual duties?
How does our Catholic faith enlighten us in regard to how husbands can best spiritually lead their families and what role the husband and wife has in spiritual leadership?
What are some activities/practices/characteristics that both the husband and the wife should share in equally when it comes to spiritually leading their families?
What are your “top leadership qualities/virtues” that a strong spiritual husband/father and wife/mother of the family should possess?
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Episode #052: Be a Spiritual Leader – Click the arrow to listen to this episode
The entire Willits family make appearances on this episode as we take you with us on a wilderness adventure of camping with the entire family in one of Colorado’s beautiful state parks. We talk about camping equipment for a family camping in Colorado, how to keep kids entertained on a camping trip, and manage to dive into how to make God and your faith a part of your expedition. If you like when we do mobile podcasts, you’re going to LOVE this episode!
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Episode #051: Camping in Colorado – Click the arrow to listen to this episode
VIDEO: My Full Talk at the 2014 Atlanta Eucharistic Congress
What an honor it was to speak once again at this year’s Eucharistic Congress in Atlanta, Georgia!
This year I was the first speaker of the day for a lineup that included Jeff Cavins, Mother Dolores Hart, Patty Schneier, Donna Cori Gibson, and Fr. Dave Dwyer.
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This is the event that well over a decade ago completely re-ignited my faith.
Now the Archdiocese has posted the full video on my talk:
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Living with non-Catholics and helping teens have faith and grow closer to God is a main topic for this episode of TCND. Plus we talk about what it was like when Greg was the only Catholic in the house, Vocation Rehabilitation options for teens wanting to go to college, Bible Study for Teens, and what to do now to prepare your kids for college later.
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Episode #050: Helping Teens Have Faith – Click the arrow to listen to this episode
A listener asks Greg how he does all he does and still spends time with the family. Greg responds by sharing his number one productivity tip. We also discuss free family resources from the Archdiocese of Denver, Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird, Game Salad Video Game development, How to help kids with autism get jobs, and how much should teenagers be saving. Plus we wrap up our visit back to Atlanta.
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Episode #049: Bird by Bird – Click the arrow to listen to this episode
Our entire family recently took part in a new video for the Archdiocese of Denver. Check it out here:
The video was released in conjunction with a new pastoral letter from Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila entitled, “Family: Become What You Are.”
I was given the task a couple weeks out from the release to develop some resources to accompany the letter. So instead of going to work one day, I sat in my truck in a park facing the front range of the Rocky Mountains and wrote 20 Family-Friendly Rosary Meditations, a Month of Dinnertime Conversation Questions, and the script for the video above.
On this very special episode of The Catholics Next Door, another mobile cast! This time, Greg and Jennifer drive around their former stomping grounds in Conyers, Georgia (where they lived for almost 15 years) and give you a soundseeing tour of areas they used to see every day — including their old house! Why the trip back? Well, Greg was invited to Atlanta to speak at the 19th Eucharistic Congress, and the whole family went with him. In addition to speaking at the Congress, it was also an opportunity to see both Greg’s and Jennifer’s parents, as well as for everyone to visit with old friends. Other topics discussed in this episode include the strangeness of automatic recall of roadmaps, dealing with forgotten memories, and more! .
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