The UnCommon Good with Bo Bonner and Dr. Bud Marr
A show about the Common Good (which is an uncommon topic--get it?), the Social Teaching of the Church, Servant Leadership, and the Social Reign of Jesus Christ.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 394
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
7 years & 51 Weeks of Common Good
Next week marks our 8th year anniversary of the show, so this week we are "wrapping up" 7 years and 51 weeks, talking about the origins of the show, its goal when we began, and setting up what makes …
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Sat 07 Sep 2024
The Church: Bulwark Against Worldliness and Foundation For Catholic Social Teaching
The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, but the fact that it is a body means a lot. On one hand, no principle of Catholic Social Teaching stands except that it rest of the foundation of the "brute…
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Sat 31 Aug 2024
The Glories of the Assumption for Human Life
The Feast of the Assumption always denotes the ending of summer and the fact that fall will start soon, but it also is a pivot point for many Protestants considering conversion to Catholicism. Bo and…
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Sat 17 Aug 2024
Can I Get a Witness? Doing History Rather Than Reading History
What does it means to do history rather than just read history? Bo comes up with a t-shirt pithy aphorism, Bud double and triple checks whether it makes any sense, and we are off to the races talking…
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Sat 10 Aug 2024
Sparkling French Mockery: What Kind of Connoisseurs of Imagery Should Christians Be?
Undoubtedly you have heard of the French fiasco in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. How are Christians to process this event? We try to get underneath the surface level political tensi…
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Sat 03 Aug 2024
All The News That's Fit To Use! UCG Summer News Commentary
Bo and Bud comment on some of the summer Catholic news, largely revolving around the National Eucharistic Congress and the Synod on Synodality, but are able to stuff all sorts of other relevant tidbi…
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Sat 27 Jul 2024
I've Got An Idea! Newman and Universities
We take another look at long time favorite Idea of a University by St. John Henry Newman!
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Sun 14 Jul 2024
Eternity, the Key to the Present Moment
We are supposed to live in the present moment, but plagiarizing St. Augustine just a teeny bit...is that possible? Bo ambushes Bud with questions regarding Eternity's role in living in the present, a…
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Sat 06 Jul 2024
The Strong Embrace of Weakness: The Pauline Secret To Christian Leadership
Reflecting on Leadership in a Christian Key once again, we take on the injection of St. Paul to boast in our weakness, by which the strength of the Lord is shown. But what does that look like practic…
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Sat 29 Jun 2024
The Human Apprenticeship: An Interview With Dr. Holly Taylor Coolman on Her Book "Parenting"
Listen in as we talk to Dr. Holly Taylor Coolman, assistant professor of theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, and a senior fellow of the Principium Institute, as we talk about …
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Sat 22 Jun 2024
See, Judge, Act--AND LISTEN!
We take the classic approach to problem solving, as famously seen in Pope Francis's Laudato Si, of See, Judge, Act, and connect it with several themes listeners of our show will be familiar with! Goo…
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Sat 15 Jun 2024
The Loving Empire of the Sacred Heart
June is the month of the Sacred Heart for the Catholic Church, and we explore the ramifications of this devotion not only for the inner life of the individual, but for the Social Life of the Church. …
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Sat 08 Jun 2024
Don't Let Your Faith Get Played: Against Gamification
The whole world wants to make a game of anything and everything important, INCLUDING your Faith! Fight back against "gamification," and listen to how you might do so in this episode!
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Sat 01 Jun 2024
To Speak The Mother Tongue of Church Politics: An Interview with Dr. Kenneth Craycraft
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Sat 18 May 2024
It's VatiCAN, not VatiCAN'T! A Primer on The Holy See with Christopher Altieri
Join us as we talk to "Elder Statesman of Vatican Insiderism" Christopher Altieri, digging into his experience as a Journalist covering the goings on with the Holy See and Vatican City, as we clear u…
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Sat 11 May 2024
The Resurrection and the Historical Scriptures: An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Morrow
We talk to Dr. Jeffrey Morrow (check out all his work here: https://stpaulcenter.com/dr-jeffrey-morrow/) about his recent work, the veracity of the Resurrection, and what Biblical criticism is. A ver…
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Sat 04 May 2024
We May Not Be Intelligent, But At Least We Aren't Artificial: There's Just Something About AI and Apologetics
It's a touchy subject, but it is right in our wheelhouse, so we need to comment: What's the deal with A.I. Chatbot Priests? We take on the controversy regarding Catholic Answer's "Fr. Justin" AI Chat…
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Sat 27 Apr 2024
Expertise And/Or/Versus Mastery?
We take a somewhat crazy Tweet about expertise in biblical translation and try to get at the root of a big debate: should you trust experts? What is an expert? Is that different than the "masters" of…
00:49:55 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Dignity? Yeah, It's Infinite!
I don't know where you were if you didn't hear: there is a new DDF document in town! On the Infinite Dignity of the Human Person...well that is something worth unpacking!
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Sat 13 Apr 2024
Don't Let the Lord Keep Walking: The Resurrection Presence of Jesus in Eastertide
It's Eastertide friends! We hope you are doing your job and having as much mirth and joy as possible! In this episode, we consider the Emmaus Road readings from the Easter week liturgy, and ponder wh…
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Sat 06 Apr 2024
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