The Lamplighters

Jul 25 2024 31 ep. 46 mins 24

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The podcast of The Lamp magazine, hosted by Matthew Walther and Nic Rowan.

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The Lost World

Jul 25 2024 42 mins

Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda P. join our hosts to discuss dinosaurs, paleontology, and Genesis.

Interview with a Robot

May 07 2024 41 mins

Timothy Nerozzi joins our hosts to discuss his recent piece for the website and to interview its subject, the recently laicized AI priest, Father Justin.

The Travel Team Trap

Apr 25 2024 58 mins

Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner joins our hosts to discuss his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, and to debate "The Travel Team Trap" with Nick Cotta, a father of eight children, two of whom play travel sports.

More Impossible Things

Apr 05 2024 54 mins

Stanley Fish joins our hosts to discuss "Impossible Things," his recent essay for the magazine, in which he catologues the latest attempts in a perennial project to clean up human behavior, from blind submission to critical legal studies to artificial intelligence. Professor Fish is the presidential scholar in residence at New College, Florida, and the author of many books, most re

The Tootsie Pop Test

Mar 01 2024 41 mins

Urban Hannon joins our hosts to discuss Lenten practices, as well as his new book, Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentaries on the Mass.

The Melting Pot

Feb 02 2024 54 mins

Megan McArdle of the Washington Post joins our hosts to discuss immigration and what it means to be American.

The Bad Old Days

Nov 22 2023 56 mins

Amanda Piccirillo of the Josias podcast and Lydia Sherwood join our hosts to discuss memories (and false memories) of the Church of our youth.

Houses in Motion

Nov 16 2023 45 mins

Stephen White, executive director of the Catholic Project, joins our hosts to discuss his organization's recent report examining generational differences among the men who are ordained to the priesthood.

Why This Girl?

Oct 19 2023 41 mins

Father Joseph Koczera, S.J., a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and Andrew Petiprin, a columnist for Catholic World Report and host of the Ignatius Press podcast, join the Lamplighters to discuss the legacy of The Excorcist.

Was King Arthur Real?

Sep 26 2023 47 mins

Shawn Phillip Cooper joins the Lamplighters to discuss King Arthur, Thomas Malory, and the Sword in the Stone.