HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive Podcast
1) Alvaro de Vicente on the Role of Parents in the Conspiracy for the Good
When we join a school community, it should be to join forces with teachers, administrators, and other families in the "conspiracy for the good" of our children. In this multi-engine partnership, how d...Show More
2) Dr. Stephen Smith on Educating Leaders with Thomas More
Does a talented person have a duty to serve others? What do leading citizens really need to live well, freely, impactfully—even greatly? How do we, parents and educators, order the educational goods? ...Show More
3) Bill Dardis on Teaching Religion with Multiple Faiths in the Room
"Charity and clarity" are the lodestars when teaching middle school boys with various faith backgrounds—and who are developing faith dispositions of their own. Bill Dardis teaches middle school religi...Show More
4) Arthur Brooks on Your Calling and How to Find It
The crisis of meaning among young people gets a lot of press; but a quieter crisis of calling afflicts every generation today. Dr. Arthur Brooks says the causes are the same: not knowing what our life...Show More
5) Kevin Twomey on Frantic Families: Three Questions for a More Intentional Life
Kevin Twomey is a husband, father, and a principal consultant at Table Group, which specializes in helping executive teams build a work culture that fulfills their people. He brings some of that same ...Show More
6) Colin Gleason on the Father as Protector
The first images of a "protector" that flash through our minds might be the warrior, the superhero, the movie star physically holding back evil from invading the world…. Our lower school head, Colin G...Show More
7) Tom Cox on an Epic Education: Tolkien in the Middle School
To prepare for Homer, Virgil, Beowulf, the Eddas, and Dante—The Heights begins with Tolkien. In a talk from 2016, former middle school core teacher and current upper school classics teacher Tom Cox de...Show More
8) Michael Moynihan on the Father as a Guide to the World
From utero and into infancy, babies recognize their mother as being essentially one with them. So, being placed in their father's arms is in fact their first introduction to the "other," the outside w...Show More
9) 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
Fr. Thomas Joseph White on Reading into Reality: What Is Intellectual Formation?
51:03 | Dec 11th, 2025
10) 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