Karen Reynolds is a missionary with a lifetime of faithful service to the Church. She currently serves Dirty Vagabond Ministries as the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Development. She is passionate about sharing the love of Jesus Christ with the lost and training/equipping missionaries.
A veteran of over 20 years of youth, college and young adult ministry, Karen started her career with Young Life serving as the Development Director of the Ohio Valley. Prior to her leadership with Dirty Vagabond, she was a diocesan and parish ministry director in Ventura CA, Denver CO, and Bermuda – to name a few.
Karen is a nationally recognized speaker, having witnessed to thousands over the past 15 years. In addition to being an avid reader and traveler, she has recently begun her plans to play drums in a rock band.
Steven (aka Steve the Missionary) is currently working as the Director for Young Adults and Evangelization in the Diocese of Oakland. Before taking a diocesan position he spent three years as a FOCUS missionary on campuses in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California.
In addition, Steve is a vlogger for Patheos where he expresses his thoughts on various topics ranging from Easter to Jimi Hendrix.
As with the previous theology on tap session, the sound quality isn’t perfect. The recording of the next Theology On Tap speaker is much better as I managed to successfully hook into the microphone sound system itself.
I recently saw Mike Aquilina (happy birthday!) comment on Facebook that he was just returning from speaking at a conference on the Early Church Fathers. I had no idea that such things existed! How did I not know?!
Anyway, it turns out that there’s an annual Patristics seminar in October at St. Lambert’s Catholic Church near Chicago, Illinois:
Although I’ve missed the seminar for this year, fortunately the parish’s website has the audio from the talks, as well as from their 2013 seminar with Dr. John Bergsma:
Well, this is rather cool. I recently saw Dr. Barber publicizing Maria Lextrix, a website which includes a large collection of free audio books of Catholic classics!
This week’s Theology On Tap talk was given by a Theology On Tap veteran, Dr. Michael Barber. Dr. Barber is a San Diego local and Professor of Theology, Scripture and Catholic Thought at John Paul The Great University.
In a previous Theology On Tap series, Dr. Barber gave a talk called “Spiritual lessons about politics” in which he looked at the wisdom which can be learned from the final book of the Bible, the book of Revelation.
This time his talk focused on understanding our Sunday liturgy, with a lecture entitled “Understanding the Mass: Why do we do what we do?”. This audio is available for download below:
In the main talk Dr. Barber walked through the Mass, explaining meaning and Scriptural basis for the things that we do. If you would like to read more on this subject then I’d invite you to read Scott Hahn’s book, The Lamb’s Supper, as well as Dr. Barber’s book, Coming Soon.
The Q&A section was particularly lively this session. Here are the questions which were asked:
1. “What is the significance of King Melchizedek [mentioned in the Mass]?”
2. “Can you talk about the Eastern and Western liturgies for a bit?”
3. “The Eastern Rites make the sign of the cross one way, we do it another. Is there a ‘right’ way?”
4. “Why is it called ‘The Mass’?”
5. “Why do we have Mass every day?”
6. “In Acts, the Early Church has held ‘all things in common’. How does that apply today?”
7. “I went to Mass in LA and they stand instead of kneeling [after the Lamb of God. Is that allowed?]”
8. “Is there any difference between attending Mass and attending the Divine Liturgy?”
9. “Why is there a shift in the Apostles Creed between ‘We’ and ‘I’?”
10. “Why is there an additional part to the Our Father in most Protestant parishes?”
11. “Does someone remain a Catholic just because he/she was baptized in the Catholic Church?”
12. “The liturgy was recently re-translated from the Latin. Why wasn’t it done right the first time?”
13. “Who is your favourite student?”
14. “What was the part of the Mass you first fell in love with?”
15. “If you arrive late to Mass can you still take Communion?”
16. “How is the Mass a sacrifice?”
17. “What does it mean to be ‘a living sacrifice’?”
18. “‘I would be a Christian if I saw a Christian’. What does this mean?”
19. “Can you please explain the meaning of 1 Timothy 2:5? What is Paul trying to say?”
If you would like to hear a talk given by his better half, Kimberly Barber previously gave a talk on Mary, the Saints and the Angels.
If you’re a Catholic Young Adult living in San Diego, chances are that you’ve been going to Theology On Tap for the last few weeks at The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Marcos.
On the 14th May, Kristine Bacich, Director of Religious Education at St. Mary Magdaleine’s, gave a talk entitled “Relationships and Theology of the Body”. The MP3s of that talk are available for download below:
Theology On Tap continues…
If you’re a Catholic Young Adult living in San Diego, chances are that you’ve been going to Theology On Tap for the last few weeks at The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Marcos.