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Podcasts & Radio

Local and national radio interviews and podcasts that deal with the faith and politics in our state.

Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 85 – Children’s Rights & Surrogacy

On this episode, Chris is joined by Katy Faust, Founder and Director of Them Before Us, an organization formed to advance and defend the primacy of children’s rights above adult desires. Chris and Katy unpack the issue of surrogacy, a process by which a child is deliberately subjected to mother-loss.  Read more…

By wpadmin, 7 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 84 – “Woke” Pseudo-Religion and Christianity

Regular guest Dr. Jon Schaff returns to the show to unpack a new address given by Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the USCCB, titled, “Reflections on the Church and America’s New Religions,” in which he proposes that Marxist secular ideologies must primarily be understood in spiritual terms in their quest Read more…

By wpadmin, 7 monthsNovember 23, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 83 – The Solemnity of Christ the King and Religious Liberty

On this episode, Chris is joined by past guest Dr. Aaron Weldon, program director for the USCCB Committee on Religious Liberty. Aaron explains why this great feast is linked to our religious freedoms. Instituted in 1925, the 16th centenary of the Council of Nicea, by Pope Piux XI, the feast Read more…

By wpadmin, 8 monthsNovember 16, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 82 – Who was Fr. DeSmet?

Fr. John Paul Trask joins the show to share about the life of Fr. Pierre Jean DeSmet, a Belgian Jesuit who dedicated his life to mission among the native peoples of the west. Fr. DeSmet’s nineteenth century missionary journeys took him from Belgium to St. Louis, up the Missouri, and Read more…

By wpadmin, 8 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 81 – South Dakota Pro-Life Litigation

On this episode, we get a front row seat to an interview by Dale Bartscher with Harold Cassidy, the attorney representing Alpha Center as intervenor in the state of South Dakota’s lawsuit with abortion giant Planned Parenthood. The facts of this case are incredible! Most South Dakotans don’t know the Read more…

By wpadmin, 8 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 80 – The South Dakota Right to Life Update

Chris is joined by Dale Bartscher, executive director of SD Right to Life. Dale recaps SDRTL’s recent 50th Anniversary Convention in Sioux Falls, shares about the process for reviewing legislation in the lead up to the winter legislative session, and updates us on the growth of local RTL chapters throughout Read more…

By wpadmin, 9 monthsOctober 19, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 79 – Pro-Abortion Policies at Health and Human Services

On this episode, Chris is joined by Rachel Morrison, a lawyer from the Ethics and Public Policy Center and member of its HHS Accountability Project. Rachel unpacks recent moves by the federal HHS department to give Title X dollars to Planned Parenthood, disregard a separate-payment for abortion requirements for health Read more…

By wpadmin, 9 monthsOctober 12, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 78 – Respect Life Month: Alpha Center

On this episode, Chris is joined by Leslee Unruh, founder of Alpha Center, a pregnancy help center based in Sioux Falls. Leslee shares Alpha’s mission to “clear the confusion with a message of hope.” Founded in 1984, Alpha offers warm, loving counseling to women and men in crisis pregnancy situations. Alpha introduces its clients Read more…

By wpadmin, 9 monthsOctober 5, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 77 – The Formative Power of Music

On this episode, Chris is joined by music-lover, Fr. Tony Klein. They discuss the South Dakota state anthem, singing the Mass, how to discern beauty in music, music’s role in shaping the heart and mind, sacred music, the common music of a people (think Hobbit songs), what’s on Fr. Tony’s Read more…

By wpadmin, 9 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 76 – F&P Mini

Chris Motz gives a news round-up (SD education policy, federal “Women’s Health Protection Act,” and call to prayer on the Dobbs case) and shares “Doing the Truth,” an excerpt on the virtue of prudence from the Josef Pieper book being read by the SDCC study group.

By wpadmin, 9 monthsSeptember 21, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 75 – A Spiritual Biography of Marx

On this episode, Chris is joined by Dr. Paul Kengor, Senior Director and Chief Academic Fellow for The Institute for Faith & Freedom and Professor of Political Science at Grove City College. They discuss his recent book, “The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration”, Read more…

By wpadmin, 10 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 74 – Individualism & Unity

On this episode, Chris is joined by thinker and writer Jack Gist (ft. on Ep. 25, Disputatio and the 1619 Project) to discuss a new essay from Jack, “Individualism, relativism, and the most extreme form of idolatry.” Jack unpacks the thought of Nietzsche and Duns Scotus, and helps us understand Read more…

By wpadmin, 10 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 73 – Just War Theory

On this episode, Chris is joined once again by Dr. Jon Schaff, professor of political science at Northern State University. Dr. Schaff unpacks the traditional teaching on the conditions for a just war, first articulated by St. Augustine. He walks through jus ad bellum (justice before making war) and jus Read more…

By wpadmin, 10 monthsAugust 31, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 72 – The Political Path Forward: Get Married and Have Kids

Jessica Kramer joins the show to discuss a recent article she authored on politics and family formation. After briefly sharing her conversion story, she shares her observations from a recent policy conference she reported on, and describes several pro-family policies concerning pornography, contraception, a one-income family wage, and more. In Read more…

By wpadmin, 10 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 71 – Vaccine Mandates and Religious Exemptions

Cameo Anders a graduate of the Ave Maria School of Law, has a Masters in Theology and a certificate in Bioethics, joins us this week to take on this hot topic of religious exemptions surrounding the growing concern of COVID vaccine mandates with employers. To read the statement from our Read more…

By wpadmin, 11 monthsAugust 17, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 70 – Unpacking Fulton, and a Half Page of Trouble in the Infrastructure Bill

Chris is joined on this episode by David Trimble, Vice President for Public Policy and Director of the Center for Religious Freedom Education at the Religious Freedom Institute. David breaks down the 9-0 Supreme Court decision in Fulton v. Philadelphia, and then shares some religious freedom concerns with the infrastructure Read more…

By wpadmin, 11 monthsAugust 3, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 68 – Individualism, the Decline of Institutions, and Friendship

On this episode, Chris is joined by Fr. Justin Brophy, O.P., professor of political science at Providence College, Rhode Island. In a short diagnosis of our present moment as Americans, Fr. Brophy points to (among other points not discussed) a tension between Lockean individualism and a Puritan ethic, and a Read more…

By wpadmin, 11 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 67 – Taxpayer Funded Abortions? What??!

On this episode, Chris is joined by Kat Talalas, the associate director for communications at the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities at the USCCB. For those who haven’t been closely following the debate over the Hyde Amendment, and its enormously significant consequences even at the state level, Kat brings us all Read more…

By wpadmin, 12 months ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 66 – 2020 SD Abortion Report

Chris is joined by Dale Bartscher, executive director of South Dakota Right to Life, to discuss the state Department of Health’s annual abortion report, published on July 1. They also recap the 2020 pro-life bills that went into effect on July 1, talk about potential future legislation, and preview SDRTL’s fall convention, which commemorates Read more…

By wpadmin, 12 monthsJuly 12, 2021 ago
Faith & Politics

F&P Episode: 65 – Sacrificial Love: Adoption & Foster Parenting

Chris is joined by Jeff Wald, a Minnesota-based lawyer and writer (but who is quick to tell us he’s a North Dakotan). Jeff shares about his and his wife Jackie’s journey with adoption and foster parenting, the result of a call they discerned together to give of themselves to the Read more…

By wpadmin, 12 months ago

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