Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Gary Zimak to discuss the last of the O Antiphons, “O Emmanuel.” Other guests include Steven Howard of In Defense of Christians to unpack Cardinal Dolan’s recent article on worldwide Christian persecution in the Wall Street Journal, Cat Hodge, author of “Unstable Felicity,” and Joseph Pearce on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Father Christmas Letters and why conversion is such a central theme in so many Christmas films and stories. Plus news, weather, sports and a whole lot more…
Gary Zimak is online at followingthetruth.com.
Steven Howard is online at indefenseofchristians.org.
Cat Hodge, author of Unstable Felicity
Joseph Pearce is online at jpearce.co.
Fr. Philip-Michael Tangorra, author of Holiness and Living the Sacramental Life
Steve Ray is online at catholicconvert.com.
Aimee O’Connell is online at autismconsecrated.com.
Karlo Broussard is online at catholic.com.
Amy Alznauer, author of The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor
Fr. Boniface Hicks is online at fatherboniface.org.
Rita Heikenfeld is online at abouteating.com.
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O Emmanuel
O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver,
the hope of the nations and their Saviour:
Come and save us, O Lord our God.