HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive Podcast
1) Fr. Thomas Joseph White on Reading into Reality: What Is Intellectual Formation?
Our mission is to assist parents in the intellectual, moral, physical, and spiritual formation of their sons… At The Heights, we repeat these words often, including a paraphrase at the beginning of e...Show More
2) Fr. Carter Griffin and Alvaro de Vicente on Learning to Throw Your Life Away!: Processes of Discernment
"Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matt. 16:25). This week we're joined by Fr. Carter Griffin, rector of the St. John Paul II Seminary...Show More
3) Colin Gleason on Manners: The "ABCs" of Virtue
Please, thank you, after you… Do manners matter? Are they artifice or virtue? In this rebroadcast from 2019, lower school head Colin Gleason shares how manners can be the building blocks to a richer m...Show More
4) Dan Lively on Formation for the Body: Lifelong Functional Fitness
In our school communities, we talk a great deal about moral and intellectual formation. But physical development, too, has an essential place in the whole-person, long-term vision of what our sons and...Show More
5) Dr. Jason Baxter on Why Beauty Matters: The Postmodern Pressure on Our Interior Life
One philosopher of our time claims that "today, the experience of beauty is impossible." Dr. Jason Baxter, director of the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine College, begs to differ. Dr. Bax...Show More
6) Tom Cox on Being a Faculty of Friends: Making Schools into Communities
The joy of "being known here" is not just for the students. When a faculty cultivates friendship, it benefits the entire school community. Tom Cox has been a middle and upper school Latin and Greek te...Show More
7) Dr. Melissa Moschella on Parental Rights in Natural and Constitutional Law
What are parental rights? Are they a legal stance—or a philosophical one? In today’s conversation, Dr. Melissa Moschella of the University of Notre Dame discusses the profound and practical implicatio...Show More
8) Michael Moynihan on A Whole Education: Teaching Persons, Not Just Subjects
There should be no contradiction in pursuing hard sciences, humanities, and moral virtue all in one day. For upper schoolers switching classrooms every hour, or for teachers siloed in a single subject...Show More
9) Alvaro de Vicente on Parental Expectations: Being Both Perfect and Anxious for Nothing
“Be perfect” (Matt. 5:48) and “anxious for nothing” (Phil 4:6). This tall order from the New Testament may put modern parents into a cold sweat. Parental perfectionism and anxiety are surely on the ri...Show More
10) Alvaro de Vicente on Conversation: The Medium of Mentoring
The art of mentoring is not just for teachers and coaches, but also parents—who can never really be out of mentoring mode. In a recent Substack article, Alvaro de Vicente named five pitfalls for our a...Show More