Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFather and Joe E461: “The Lord Is My Shepherd” — Desire, Provision, and the Messy Gift of Kids at Mass
A single Psalm line can mess with your head—in a good way. Joe Rockey brings a phrase from the Good Shepherd Mass that sounds impossible on first hea…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Father and Joe E460: Faith Isn’t an Aquarium — Stop “Using” People and Start Witnessing With Love
It’s easy to treat faith like an aquarium: you can see it “over there,” but it doesn’t touch real life on your side of the glass. Joe Rockey and Fath…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Father and Joe E459: A Picture of Heaven — Perfect Love, Total Vulnerability, and Breaking Our Hidden Defenses
Heaven is hard to picture because everything in us is trained to see life through “today.” In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks try …
5 months ago
Father and Joe E458: Love Doesn’t Pay the Bills — But It Powers Everything That Does
What do you do when faith says “love wins,” but real life says “the mortgage is due”? In this episode, Joe Rockey challenges a common tension: love c…
5 months, 1 week ago
Father and Joe E457: When the Apostles Scattered — Fear, Trauma, Judas, and Why Jesus Loved Them Anyway
After Easter, it’s easy to forget what the Passion felt like from the inside. In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks step back into th…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Father and Joe E456: Holy Thursday’s Altar of Repose — Letting Jesus Redeem Every Emotion
Holy Thursday has a way of “breaking through” our usual routine—especially when the liturgy makes the silence loud. In this episode, Joe Rockey share…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Father and Joe E455: Stop Waiting for the “Perfect Moment” — Holy Week as the Pattern of Time and the Training Ground of Love
So many of us wait for the “perfect moment” to get serious about our relationship with God—when life is calmer, when we feel cleaner, when we’re more…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Father and Joe E454: Hosanna to Crucify — Fear, Power, and How Crowds Turn
How can a society move from celebrating Jesus as Messiah to accepting (or even demanding) His crucifixion—within days? Joe Rockey and Father Boniface…
6 months ago
Father and Joe E453: The Money Changers and the Courtyard of the Gentiles — When “Normal” Becomes Corruption
What if you were one of the money changers in the Temple—doing what “everyone” said was acceptable—until Jesus showed up and flipped the tables? In t…
6 months, 1 week ago
Father and Joe E452: Loving Yourself Without Narcissism — Humility, Strengths, and Why “Harder” Isn’t Holier
If God’s will is love, what does it mean to love yourself without sliding into narcissism—or the opposite extreme of self-neglect and self-hatred? Co…
6 months, 2 weeks ago