Made for Love Ep. 76: Infertility and Relationships part 1
Kimberly Henkel and Ann Koshute of Springs in the Desert join us to talk about their ministry to those who experience infertility. We had a lot to talk about, so the conversation will pick back up next episode. Later in this episode (21:05) Kara joins to talk about the surprisingly fun and encouraging I’m Your Man, a new German film about a robot husband.
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Kimberly and Ann’s article in Humanum Review
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Made for Love Ep. 75: Fantasy and Family
We’re back with lots more Lord of the Rings and its significance for fantasy and family! First, the founder of Tea with Tolkien joins us to share her mission of spreading the author’s wisdom and world. Then, Kara joins to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the film release of Fellowship of the Ring. Topics covered include: the Immaculate Conception, Frodo paying off his student loans, Tom Bombadil’s divisiveness, and trees. Lots of trees.
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Tree and Leaf by JRR Tolkien
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Made for Love Ep. 74: The Green Knight vs. Lord of the Rings
Kara and Andrew go on a journey with Sir Gawain to see if he’s up to the Green Knight’s challenge. Honestly, though, traveling with Bilbo or Frodo would be a more enjoyable experience. Topics include: Memento Mori, humanity’s relationship with nature, talking foxes, and random giants.
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Based on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Made for Love Ep. 73: Edward Sri Wraps Up MWML
Our journey through Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love concludes with the book’s author, Dr. Edward Sri! Join us as he gives the inside scoop on the book’s background and where it leads. Topics covered include: doing it for the gram, the scourge of event maybes, Jesus is enough, and the point of virtue is to give us the freedom to love.
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Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love by Edward Sri
The Art of Living by Edward Sri
The Realities of Marriage talk by Edward and Beth Sri
Men & Women are from Eden by Mary Healy
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Made for Love Ep. 72: When Harry Met Sally part 2
We had too much to say about When Harry Met Sally! We’re back with the second part of our chat about this endlessly entertaining, and at least somewhat edifying, look at relationships. Topics include: Gerald Ford, 80’s hair, the disputed nature of “chick flicks”, and the applicable ideas from Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love.
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Made for Love Ep. 71: Attraction and Discordance part 2 plus When Harry Met Sally
We finish up our two-part interview with Eden Invitation’s Anna Carter BUT we also start another multi-parter with the first of (at least) two episodes on When Harry Met Sally, the classic romcom from 1989. Seriously, we had way too much to say about this movie, even more than we thought going in.
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Anna Carter at Eden Invitation
Inheritance blog series part 1 of 4
Previous Episodes featuring Anna Carter:
24- Young People
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Made for Love Ep. 70: Attraction and Discordance part 1
In the first of a two-part interview, Anna Carter imparts her wisdom gained from Eden Invitation’s exciting ministry relating to same-sex attraction and gender discordance. Following that, Kara jumps in to wrap up Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love with a cool conversation about remote preparation for marriage (i.e. singlehood).
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Anna Carter at Eden Invitation
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24- Young People
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Made for Love Ep. 69: Indiana Jones and NFP and the Last Crusade
Damon Owens of Joyful Ever After joins for a surprisingly fun chat about NFP Week. Then Kara stops by for a while to cover Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, one of our favorite movies. Topics covered include: Elon Musk’s space ambitions, the Trinitarian theology of booby traps, and can archeology serve as a vessel for loving your family?
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Damon Owens at Joyful Ever After
Natural Family Planning Week (July 25-31)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Made for Love Ep. 68: Grandparents plus a Relationship Disagreement
Our guest Alice Heinzen tells us about grandparenthood, but maybe we should have brought her back for the second segment too. Kara and Andrew talk about Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love‘s section on tenderness, and find themselves disagreeing a bit. Is this the end for our heroes? Nah, it’s fine.
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Families and Faith by Vern Bengston
The Catholic Grandparents Handbook by Lorene Hanley Duquin
Episodes featuring Alice Heinzen:
3- Annulments
27- Holidays
(Note: Andrew did a bad job in the recording and got the episode numbers wrong. These are the right ones!)
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Made for Love Ep. 67: St. Joseph, Fatherhood, and A Quiet Place
To mark Father’s Day, our chairman Bishop David Konderla joins us to chat about St. Joseph, fatherhood, and Pope Francis’s apostolic letter Patris Corde. Then later we keep the Father’s Day vibes rolling when Kara joins to talk about A Quiet Place (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2021), starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. Topics covered: cheating off of Bishop Barron’s work, Neil Young’s devotion to music at risk of life and limb, and does John Krasinski’s fatherhood model Christ’s sacrificial love?
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The Shadow of the Father by Jan Dobraczynski
Bishop Barron on A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place (2018)
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Related Episodes:
14- Fatherhood
39- Technology (featuring Bishop Konderla)
52- Enjoying the Seasons (also featuring Bishop Konderla)
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Made for Love Ep. 66: Language in Gender Theory part 2
Dr. Abigail Favale is back for part 2 of her interview about language in Gender Theory. Plus, Kara joins us to cover Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love chapters 7-9. Topics covered include chastity, modesty, the Me Too movement, and frat bros. Missed part 1 of the interview? Find it here.
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Find Dr. Favale on Twitter and check out her book Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion.
Swedish Study regarding the mortality and suicidality rates among people receiving “gender-affirming surgery”.
American Journal of Psychiatry correction of a study which had erroneously concluded that “gender-affirming surgery” led to lower use of mental health treatment.
Church Resources:
“Male and female he created them” towards a path of dialogue on the question of gender theory in education (Congregation for Catholic Education, 2019)
Select Teaching Resources (USCCB, 2019)
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Made for Love Ep. 65: Language in Gender Theory plus Pride and Prejudice
Dr. Abigail Favale joins us for part 1 of her interview on the language of Gender Theory, which has a huge influence on current thought about what the human person is made for. Then, Kara talks excitedly about Pride and Prejudice (the 1995 BBC miniseries, not so much the movie). You can find part 2 of the interview here.
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“Male and female he created them” towards a path of dialogue on the question of gender theory in education (Congregation for Catholic Education, 2019)
Select Teaching Resources (USCCB, 2019)
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Made for Love Ep. 64: Priorities in Love
The second part of our interview with Mike and Alicia Hernon of the Messy Family Project continues our conversation about balancing priorities in a marriage. Totally by coincidence, our discussion of Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love later in the episode happens to intersect.
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Mike and Alicia Hernon at the Messy Family Project
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23- Divorce
C.S. Lewis: “When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving toward the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.”
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Made for Love Ep. 63: Marriage Balance and Minari
Mike and Alicia Hernon join us for part 1 of their interview on how to balance loving your spouse and kids. Kara stops by to chat about the Oscar contender Minari.
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23- Divorce
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Made for Love Ep. 62: Overcoming Resentment in Marriage
Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak are back for part 2 of our interview on overcoming resentment, this time in marriage. Later, Kara returns to talk about chapters 3-4 of Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love.
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Check out Greg and Lisa’s radio show More2Life, along with their Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!
The Amoris Laetitia Family Year runs from 3/19/21 until the 10th World Meeting of Families on 6/26/22.
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Episode 6: Reality of Marriage vs. the Ideal
Episode 50: Praying as a Family
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Made for Love Ep. 61: Dating, Breakups, and Pixar’s Soul
Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak are here to offer ways to help with resentment in dating and breakups. Kara joins us to cover Pixar’s most recent film Soul, starring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey, because how could we not? Jazz and metaphysics never went so well together.
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Soul (2020) directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Kemp Powers
“What is Immateriality?” by Prof. Therese Scarpelli Cory
Soul blog post from our sister site For Your Marriage:
https://www.foryourmarriage.org/blogs/disney-plus-and-family-traditions/
Maple seeds
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Made for Love Ep. 60: Accompaniment and Same-Sex Attraction
Fr. Philip Bochanski, Executive Director of Courage International, about accompaniment and same-sex attraction. Then Kara joins us to start our journey through Dr. Edward Sri’s Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love, with detours through Sex and the City and the Supreme Court. You know, like you’d expect.
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Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love by Dr. Edward Sri
“Dating columnist reveals how ‘Sex and the City’ ruined her life”
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Made for Love Ep. 59: Sacraments and the Body
Made for Love returns to talk about the impact of the sacraments on life as an embodied person, plus Andrew and Kara chat about the Studio Ghibli classic movie My Neighbor Totoro.
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Thanks to Sara Perla for everything she did to get this show off the ground and pilot it for the first two years. Without her efforts, we would not be able to continue on. She has moved on to work at the Catholic Project on their podcast “Crisis”.
Fr. Conrad Murphy on “Catholic Bytes”
National Marriage Week at For Your Marriage
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Made for Love Ep 58: Love in the Time of COVID
In this pandemic, it is more important than ever to love one another! Today’s episode features Amy Stout (and family), Sarah Engel, Fr. Dan Leary of the Archdiocese of Washington, and Jason Kidd, Marriage and Family Life Director in the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon. This is also the last episode of Made for Love for now, as Sara Perla is leaving for another adventure! Thanks for listening!
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Made for Love Minisode: Love on the Street
Hey y’all! I hope you are keeping safe, healthy, and… away from other people. It’s a great time to catch up on podcasts that you like, such as Made for Love!
Here’s a minisode about meeting Christ on the streets of New York City, with Kathryn Jean Lopez.
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