A Resounding Yes!
A Resounding Yes! is a podcast produced by Catholic creative agency Paloma & Fig centered around Mary's Fiat and how we can say YES to the Lord. Visit www.palomaandfig.com to learn more.
Episodes
66 episodes
The Widow Who Became America's First Native-Born Saint
Belle Meade sits down with Sister Betty Ann McNeil, D.C., a Daughter of Charity and former provincial archivist who edited the second edition of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Spiritual Portrait. Sister Betty Ann has been telling Elizabe...
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The God Who Cheers Us On: Astronaut Tom Jones on Wonder and Creation
Christina Sabo and co-host Fr. John Johnson welcome veteran astronaut and planetary scientist Dr. Tom Jones, who flew four space shuttle missions and made three spacewalks helping build the International Space Station. Tom traces the yeses that...
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How to Find Relics Near You w/ Brian O'Neel
Christina Sabo talks with writer, editor, and publicist Brian O'Neel about SaintsTombs.com, the twenty-three-year project that maps where servants of God, venerables, blesseds, and saints are buried across 133 countries. Brian traces it back to...
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Not a Cry Room, but a Training Room: Author Steve Walton on Children at Mass
Steve Walton is an author, former Army Ranger, father of four, and grandfather of five. Steve joins Belle Meade to talk about converting to Catholicism at fifteen, a career built on writing, and his new board book, Loving God: A Mass Book f...
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Signs of Hope in a Pornography-Filled Culture w/ Fr. Carter Griffin
Belle Meade welcomes Fr. Carter Griffin for a conversation about chastity as the power to love well rather than a list of restrictions. Fr. Carter is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, a former Navy line officer, and the author of R...
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The Only Wrong Way to Pray: Tanner Kalina on Prayer, Heartbreak, and Wholeheartedness
Christina Sabo is joined by co-hosts Fr. Kevin Braski and Belle Meade for a conversation with Catholic evangelist, author, and speaker Tanner Kalina about his new book, All Your Heart: How to Live for Christ Without Holding Back. Tanne...
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Holiness in the Ordinary: Meg Hunter-Kilmer on The Everyday Yes
Guest host Belle Meade welcomes Catholic author, speaker, and Notre Dame campus minister Meg Hunter-Kilmer to talk about her own everyday yes and her new twelve-week Bible study, Who Is Jesus? Discovering Christ in the Gospels, publish...
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The Only Approved Apparition in America: The Story of Our Lady of Champion
Guest host Kaylee Stoll sits down with Father Tony Stephens, CPM, rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, for a conversation about his own yes to God and the only Church-approved Marian apparition in the United States. From a far...
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Jeff Cavins on Walking Through Every Door God Opens
This episode is a re-air.Jeff Cavins never planned any of it. A confirmation Bible at thirteen, a stack of colored markers and a sheet of butcher paper at twenty-six, and a habit of walking through whatever door opened. That is ho...
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Sharks, Street Gangs, and the Making of a Monk w/ Fr. Augustine Wetta, O.S.B.
Father Augustine Wetta, O.S.B.—Benedictine monk, teacher, surfer, and former professional juggler—joins the show to talk about Georges Bernanos's classic novel Diary of a Country Priest and the new unabridged translation th...
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What Kids Know That We Forget: The Grace of Yes w/ Lisa Hendey of Chime Travelers
Lisa Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com and bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction for adults and children, joins the show to share her own yes to the Lord and discuss Chime Travelers — the animated children's series based on her beloved ...
What No One Taught You in CCD: Steve Hemler on the Apologetics Gap
Steve Hemler traded a 33-year engineering career—including 13 years living inside a gated oil compound in Saudi Arabia—for full-time Catholic ministry, and the journey shaped everything he now teaches. In this conversation ...
The Role That Changed Everything: Michael Iskander of House of David on Saying Yes to the Lord
Michael Iskander plays David in Prime Video's House of David—but his real story begins with a restless search for truth that led him, step by step, to a breakfast with a priest and an answer he couldn't give lightly: yes. Christina is joined by...
How Fairy Tales Carry What Sermons Can't: E.P. Cowley on Tolkien and Lewis
E.P. Cowley is a retired homeschooling mother and author living in southern British Columbia whose debut novel, Tales from Wakken Wood, published by Ignatius Press, draws on the folklore of the Isle of Man to tell an enchanted story of...
What C.S. Lewis Teaches Us About Heaven, Hell, and the Choices We Make Now w/ Andrew Swafford
Andrew Swafford, professor of theology at Benedictine College and author of Next Stop: The Afterlife, joins us to explore how C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce illuminates the reality of heaven, hell, and purgatory and why every ...
The Spiritual Wisdom of J.R.R. Tolkien w/ Kaitlyn Facista (Tea with Tolkien)
Kaitlyn Facista is the founder of Tea with Tolkien, an online community celebrating the life, writings, and Catholic faith of J.R.R. Tolkien and the author of Into the Heart of Middle-earth, published by Ave...
Reluctant Converts and Quiet Heroism: Joseph Pearce on Tolkien, Lewis, and Mary's Fiat
In this episode of A Resounding Yes!, Christina Sabo and co-host Franci Revel Eckensberger welcome back the internationally acclaimed Catholic author and literary biographer Joseph Pearce for a rich conversation on imaginat...
Finding God in the Sacred Chaos of Motherhood with Jennifer Stavinoha
In this special Month of Mary episode, Christina Sabo is joined by Jennifer Stavinoha — ministry leader, theologian, and author of Sacred Chaos: Finding Joy and Jesus in the Messiness of Motherhood — to explore what it looks like to sa...
Tell Them About Me: How Maria Eva Jacobs Overcame Bipolar Disorder Through Faith, Music, and Surrender
Maria Eva Jacobs is a national recording artist, published author, and vocal jazz professor at Kent State University whose yes to God has unfolded over decades of struggle, surrender, and extraordinary fruit. In this episode, Christina and Mari...
The Voice the Church Forgot: Translating Ida Görres w/ Dr. Jennifer Bryson
Dr. Jennifer Bryson joins Christina to discuss her translation of Bread Grows in Winter, a collection of essays and lectures by the largely forgotten mid-20th-century Catholic writer Ida Görres. Together they explore why Görres's voice...
A Once-in-a-Generation Moment: Jonathan Strate on the New Liturgy of the Hours
Jonathan Strate, President and CEO of Ascension, shares the personal yes that led him from aerospace engineering to leading one of Catholic media's most impactful organizations. He opens up about the projects now reshaping how Cat...
He Calls You by Name: An Easter Reflection
In this Easter reflection, Christina Sabo meditates on the resurrection account in the Gospel of John—exploring what it means to hear Christ call us by name and step into new life. With guest Fr. Tom Dillon unable to join due to i...
Placing Ourselves Under Our Lady's Mantle w/ Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P. of Godsplaining
Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P., promoter of the Holy Rosary for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph, joins the show during the closing days of Lent to share his journey to the priesthood, the spirituality of St. Dominic, and what it means to s...
A Boy-Sized Cross: The Story of St. Louis Ibaraki w/ Paul Fox
In this Lenten episode with guest host Kaylee Stoll, Paul Fox shares the story of his journey to the Catholic faith and the true history behind his recently published book about St. Louis Ibaraki, a 12-year-old martyr who s...
You Cannot Choose Your Cross w/ Sr. Mary Grace of the Sisters of Life
Christina Sabo sits down with Sister Mary Grace, S.V. of the Sisters of Life, for a Lenten conversation on discernment, religious life, and the courage to say yes to God. Sister Mary Grace traces her journey ...
