Catching Foxes

This is our first time back in three weeks, having recorded the last two episodes originally as one long episode. Then Luke’s internet completely died in their classy, old apartment building, so we recorded late on Saturday night. But you’ve patiently waited on us, so we will gift you with a special 2 hour episode! We start off with a return of 10 minute topics as our Hero Luke launches a GoFundMe Campaign for That Catholic Couple which met its goal in just 32 hours. Immediately following that we begin to argue with one another about Community Groups for 45 minutes, breaking the 10 minute limit. After that, we regrouped, I drank more wine, and we discuss Dr. Strange and crappy Marvel villains, Pop Culture, Who Gomer voted for in the Early Elections, Jimmy Eat World, and the podcast State of the Union.SPONSORWe want to thank our unsponsor who unadvertised with our unpodcast, Cherubalm, makers of baby lotion bars that are great on skin and safe for cloth diapers, for giving us money not to talk about their family product.  Support Catching Foxes

We dive into the Trumpster and the significance of his absurdist campaign, mocking the corrupt GOP (and DNC) who pretend to give us choice. Except Trump's money and celebrity allows to him bypass the entire Establishment and point a tiny finger at the absurdity at the heart of American politics. Also, I'm sick, so these are the show notes.Thanks to BenSound.com for the theme music!Thanks to the artist of this weird mashup of Trump and Hillary that I am using for the artwork. <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5812d30403596eed2599354f/1477628686027/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="5812d30403596eed2599354f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5812d30403596eed2599354f/1477628686027/?format=1000w" /> Support Catching Foxes

Tom <LastNameRedacted> is a friend and lawyer. You'd think the second one would invalidate the first one, and it almost did when he wrote us an angry letter last week! He invokes the Lukan Privilege to not mention last names or employer. Tom does mostly labor issues and personal injury defense litigation, which Luke pounces on to talk about the hottest topic at his office, what are his thoughts are on the new overtime labor law for salaried employees, like youth ministers. Then we dive into the complicated nature of Catholics who favor social justice issues and used that to justify their vote for Obama 8 years ago, only to watch the Obama Administration restrict religious liberty only to those organizations that do services and promulgate the faith directly, so bye-bye hundreds of soup kitchens, homeless shelters, halfway houses, orphanages, and the corporal works of mercy!Finally, we end with a rousing conversation about community, life, and family, which ends the civil part of the show.https://www.dol.gov/featured/overtimehttps://blog.dol.gov/2016/05/18/who-benefits-from-the-new-overtime-rule/https://www.dol.gov/WHD/overtime/final2016/Thanks to BenSound.com for the theme music! <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5809a98959cc68829b5acbae/1477028238318/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="5809a98959cc68829b5acbae" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5809a98959cc68829b5acbae/1477028238318/?format=1000w" /> Support Catching Foxes

Our first family member on the show, Luke's sister Emily shares the pain, embarrassment, and isolation from being a victim of sexual assault. She shares with us the struggle of being ignored or blamed instead of loved. She also shares how this crap is still going on in her life with a previous employer at a billion dollar company.Also, every time Luke and Emily walk down memory lane, I play "The Girl from Ipanema" elevator song. So yeah, you're going to love that song by the end of the show.Finally, Trumps comments from 11 years ago are disgusting, but what is even more disgusting is the way people are defending those comments. I have to delete my Facebook account. This is too much. And yes, I'm a bear. <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/580073fc5016e1907a30e1ac/1476424702986/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="580073fc5016e1907a30e1ac" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/580073fc5016e1907a30e1ac/1476424702986/?format=1000w" /> Support Catching Foxes

We are the Syro-Phoenician Woman. You are the scraps that fall from the Master's table. Wait. This sounded better in my head a minute ago. In this episode we talk COMMUNITY GROUPS! ...or Life Groups... or Cell Groups, or House Church Groups, or Small Faith Groups, or 242 Groups or Connect Groups or Discipleship Groups or ...whatever.Then Gomer tells Luke he is done with his need for approval from people at the parish. He's ready to take it to the next level, job be damned! (but pleeeease don't let it be damned! I love working there.) session one// The Gospel.pdf Here's the talkie talk I gave at the Encounter Houston young adult conference called Intimacy with God.Support Catching Foxes

This is a fun episode with two moderately decent people. Jackie is a famous Catholic musician and speaker, who performs for groups large and small. Bobby is a Catholic School teacher, a bearded gentleman, and a lover of Mumford and Sons. This episode is light-hearted, except that Gomer drank a few beers and started dominating the conversation.  <a href="http://jackieandbobby.com" target="_blank"> <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57ee7a2c893fc0c995dc3c2f/1475246660102/" data-image-dimensions="843x843" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57ee7a2c893fc0c995dc3c2f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57ee7a2c893fc0c995dc3c2f/1475246660102/?format=1000w" /> </a> Support Catching Foxes

Sexual addiction is more than just the acting out, yet we tend to focus almost exclusively on the external results of an internal wound (or wounds). Like many people who talk about their sexual addiction, such as Audrey Assad, a lot of this starts with family of origin issues. The man we interview, whom we respectfully call Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo, started attending Sex Addicts Anonymous when he was 19 years old. He was living a double life and hated it: giving a theology of the body talk in the evening, and then meeting strangers for sexual hookups in dangerous places. This is a powerful interview. “Before coming to Sex Addicts Anonymous, many of us never knew that our problem had a name. All we knew was that we couldn’t control our sexual behavior. For us, sex was a consuming way of life. Although the details of our stories were different, our problem was the same. We were addicted to sexual behaviors that we returned to over and over, despite the consequences.” — Sex Addicts Anonymous, p. 3 John Paul II Healing CenterTheology of the Body InstituteIs SAA right for you? Do you have a Sexual Addiction? <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2/1474611060340/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2/1474611060340/?format=1000w" /> Support Catching Foxes

Catholic Twitter was delivered a crushing blow by one of its own members. Turns out, dozens of people, especially a college student and author named Chad, were catfished, which means essentially that you form a relationship with someone via social media and the whole time they are only pretending to be that person. (Here's an actual Catholic News Agency article on it.)Luke finds it hilarious. I do too, but only because I wasn't involved and am not really a part of Catholic Twitter, being too busy watching the Apple Keynote a few dozen times. But Luke masterfully connects this incident of catfishing to a wider issue, the ANIMA TECHNICA VACUA.Also, Luke is annoyed somewhat that people are taking this waaaay too seriously. For example: "As I consider ThisCatholicGirl in light of Exaltation of the Holy Cross, I am going to be honest—this is a conversation I am hesitant to have, because behind the public personas of the handle and Chase’s blog," (Marina Olson, Patheos Eating Peaches blog, emphasis mine)Also, there some South Park references and a whole slew of "tiny penis" jokes, but I can neither confirm nor deny their validity.Finally, Matt Fradd is apparently catfishing all of us. The real person behind the mask? An actual catfish named Whiskers. Also, buy his book, Pints with Aquinas. Also, OUR APOLOGIES TO RAYMOND ARROYO FOR THE INCORRECT INSINUATION. <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57dcb9eae3df28c822ba9704/1474083318477/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.48214285714285715,0.375" data-load="false" data-image-id="57dcb9eae3df28c822ba9704" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57dcb9eae3df28c822ba9704/1474083318477/?format=1000w" /> Support Catching Foxes

Everett Fritz likes to lob grenades at our presuppositions regarding large group ministry. He took a long, hard look at his youth group and realized only 10% or less were actually following Jesus Christ. Those that were following Christ were not just youth group attendees, but also personally mentored by him or others. That's when he realized discipleship isn't a program or an event. It's getting involved in people's lives and letting them get involved in yours on a personal level. And that cannot be done for the crowds.Discipleship matters. He even wrote a book about breaking free from pornography through his discipleship approach. His book Freedom: Battle Strategies for Conquering Temptation looks at victory over porn and masturbation addiction through the lens of following Christ. It's written for men because those are the people he mentors.This episode has some controversial stuff born out of a frustrations and also out of love. Just give it a listen, take a breath, and snag whatever insight you can. Also be on the lookout for his next book on discipleship in Catholic youth ministry, which should be out by November.Then there is this... The Big M by Lust Control Support Catching Foxes

So the regular host, Matt Fradd, couldn't be here today. So we had to drag Luke back out from the freezer, thaw him out, and unleash him on AMERICA'S FAVORITE PODCAST THEME: 10 MINUTE TOPICS!And we don't really stay to 10 minutes on any of them.Thanks to BenSound.com for the show music. Also, thanks to YouTube for letting me fair use the crap out of the Stranger Things Main Title song! <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57c90d80414fb58de2d51459/1472793988569/" data-image-dimensions="320x320" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57c90d80414fb58de2d51459" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57c90d80414fb58de2d51459/1472793988569/?format=1000w" /> Support Catching Foxes