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Veritas et Sapientia-The Culture We’re Burning Is Christian Culture

Mandeville, LA - "The beginnings of Western culture are to be found in the new spiritual community which arose from the ruins of the Roman Empire owing to the conversion of the Northern barbarians to the Christian faith. The Christian Church inherited the traditions of the Empire. It came to the barbarians as the bearer of a higher civilization, endowed with the prestige of Roman law and the authority of […]

todayJuly 10, 2018

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Episode 314 – Esolen – Out of the Ashes

  Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Rod Dreher writes this at “Out of Academia’s Ashes.”  He’s writing about Professor Anthony Esolen, who’s been a guest on this show.  I think I’m going to invite Professor Esolen back on the show and talk a little bit about his book now that it’s out.  This pertains to what we’re talking about, the end of Western civ.  Check out today’s transcript for […]

todayApril 14, 2018

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Episode 321 – Christian Culture, Trump Taxes

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – One of the things that I like to highlight on this show is that Christianity, properly practiced, is culture.  It is not a counterculture.  Please don’t ever tell anyone that.  If anyone ever says that to you, correct them.  It’s not a counterculture.  It is not a counterbalance.  It is the balance.  It is the culture.  There is no other culture.  Check out today’s […]

todayApril 14, 2018

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Joseph Pearce Talks Lord of the Rings & The Pearcing Truth Episodes

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "In Tolkien’s life, in his letters, and in his works, not least of which is The Lord of the Rings, there’s an ethos of basically what we would understand to be Catholic social teaching, an ethos of subsidiarity, solidarity, the Chestertonian idea of distributism.  It’s all there, if you like, a political philosophy that underpins the very ethos of The Lord of the Rings." […]

todayApril 14, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-To Reform Our Corrupted Cult Stop Trying To Reform It

Mandeville, LA - "In the midst of all this one young man, the son of well to do civil servants, has come to the big city to begin the second half of an education in politics that his family expects will lead to a career in public life. But he has looked around at the dissolute lives of his fellow students and professors and the disintegration of social order in […]

todayJanuary 17, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Destruction of Culture Doesn’t Liberate It Destroys

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed, the Mike Church Show's featured book this month.-MC, Ed.] "The economic catastrophe and near collapse of the world economy in 2008 was, above all, the result of the elimination of a culture that existed to regulate and govern the granting and procuring of mortgages. The destruction of culture thus achieves not liberation but bondage. This […]

todayJanuary 11, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – Taking Our “Cultural Commissions” Seriously In 2018

Mandeville, LA - "Jesus told his disciples that there will be people at the threshold of heaven, claiming to have done great things in his name, only to be told, “I never knew you”—people like the rich man whose spiritual valuation was all wrong. As we enter the New Year, these warnings should prompt us to consider our own spiritual well-being. If pressed, would you say that you are spiritually […]

todayJanuary 5, 2018

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The Conservative Celebrity

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "There’s no pursuit of the intellectual arts.  The only flimsy pursuit we have of it is, again, through the cult of personality, which is: Such and such just wrote the greatest tome.  What’s it about?  I don’t know, but it’s awesome and I’m going to get it and read it.  Why?  I don’t know, because he wrote it / she wrote it, and they’re […]

todayMay 15, 2017

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Iben Thranholm Discusses The US and Russia’s Role Reversal

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Iben Thranholm is my guest here.  She is our European correspondent and is live from Copenhagen, Denmark.  Iben, you just don’t get what you just said in Western media.  We just don’t get it.  We don’t hear this.  Instead, you hear the propaganda line from the State, which is: The big Russian bear is back."  Check out today’s transcript for the rest…. Begin Mike […]

todayApril 6, 2017

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