Tag: TV

Goooooooaaaaal!!!

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I was recently reminded in conversation that most American Catholics have never watched the TV show “Father Ted”. To be fair, it’s a rather bizarre TV show, with a distinctly quirky sense of humour. However, it’s well worth a watch.

So, in honour of England’s recent victory over Columbia in the World Cup, here’s the episode where Fr. Ted coaches the All-Priests Over 75 Five-A-Side Football Challenge Match…

If you’d like to be introduced to more wonderful British TV, I’d recommend looking at my Best of British series, where I talk about some of my favourite TV shows from home.

PWJ: S1E16 – MC B3C4 – “Morality and Psychoanalysis”

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Is Psychoanalysis in competition with Christianity? Or are they, in fact, complementary? In today’s episode Matt and I will be unpacking what C.S. Lewis has to say about where psychoanalysis fits in with Christian morality and along the way we’ll learn some important lessons about not judging other people…

If you enjoy this episode, you can subscribe manually, or any place where good podcasts can be found (iTunes, Google Play, Podbean, Stitcher and TuneIn). Please send any objections, comments or questions, either via email through my website or tweet us @pintswithjack. Be sure to follow our new Instagram account!

Episode 16: “Morality and Psychoanalysis” (Download)

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Friday Frivolity: Religious TV

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Whenever I’m on the road and I stay in a hotel, one of my favourite pastimes is to hunt down the most appalling Christian TV shows. I recently came across “Godstuff” with Joe Bob Briggs who, it turns out, always enjoys some seriously cringeworthy Christian TV…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUP7r5S6rRw

"Who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord?"

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I now have several posts in draft which I will be posting next week once I have had a chance to proof-read them.

However, today I wanted to draw your attention to a really interesting documentary which was recently aired on television and which is now available online.

CBS was granted the extremely rare privilege of being allowed onto Mt. Athos and interview some of the monks there. It is an extremely ancient site of Christian monasticism and has changed little over the course of Christian history and is commonly regarded as the spiritual capital of Orthodoxy.

Watch Part 1 | Watch Part 2

Favourite People: Fulton Sheen

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When musicians, artists and writers are interviewed, they are often asked about their influences.

Now, although I’m no Bono, something I’ve been meaning to do ever since I started this blog is to share with you some of my own influences.  These are the people who have made a profound impact upon me and substantially contributed to the person I am today.

In this post I would like to briefly talk about someone who has had an impact upon me and my faith fairly recently. In fact, up until nine months ago, I had never even heard of him. The person I’m talking about here is Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

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