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Difficulty Holding On, Surgery for the Sake of Openness to Life & Hellish Comparison. | ACW270
Ask Christopher West - March 04, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: I’ve been going deep into the TOB for a few years but after all this time has passed, I’ve noticed it’s difficult to hold on. Did you have a similar experience? Could you provide some encouragement? My wife and I are newly weds. We both would like to have children...
Open Bathroom Policy, Stopping Birth Control "Cold Turkey" & Idolizing One's Spouse | ACW269
Ask Christopher West - February 26, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: My husband and I have 4 children 7 years old and under. We have unintentionally adopted an open door bathroom policy in our home. Is there an age where this would cease to be appropriate? I’m entering the Church this easter but my husband is not. I want to honor ...
Open Bathroom Policy, Stopping Birth Control "Cold Turkey" & Idolizing One's Spouse
Ask Christopher West - February 26, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: My husband and I have 4 children 7 years old and under. We have unintentionally adopted an open door bathroom policy in our home. Is there an age where this would cease to be appropriate? I’m entering the Church this easter but my husband is not. I want to honor ...
"Remain", Contraception & the Sacrifice of Motherhood
Ask Christopher West - February 19, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: The word remain has been coming up in my prayer. Do you have deeper insights into this word? Has it ever come up for you in prayer? Where do you recommend that I go to learn more about the topic of contraception from an academic perspective? I’m a stay at home mo...
"Remain", Contraception & the Sacrifice of Motherhood | ACW268
Ask Christopher West - February 19, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: The word remain has been coming up in my prayer. Do you have deeper insights into this word? Has it ever come up for you in prayer? Where do you recommend that I go to learn more about the topic of contraception from an academic perspective? I’m a stay at home mo...
Resurrection & Final Judgement, Anesthetized to Beauty and Call to Single Life
Ask Christopher West - February 12, 2024 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Will heaven be less spectacular until the day when souls get reunited with their bodies? How will the final judgement change the status of people already in heaven or in hell? How can I begin to enter into the deep emotional realities of art like music or movies? ...
Resurrection & Final Judgement, Anesthetized to Beauty and Call to Single Life | ACW267
Ask Christopher West - February 12, 2024 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Will heaven be less spectacular until the day when souls get reunited with their bodies? How will the final judgement change the status of people already in heaven or in hell? How can I begin to enter into the deep emotional realities of art like music or movies? ...
God Liking Us, Dating Wounds In Newly Weds & Fishing for Compliments
Ask Christopher West - February 05, 2024 15:15 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: How can I know if God not only loves me but likes me? My husband and I recently married but I find that I’m resentful and defensive because of things that happened during our 5 years of dating. I continue to grow angrier and resentful as our marriage goes on. Do y...
God Liking Us, Dating Wounds In Newly Weds & Fishing for Compliments | ACW266
Ask Christopher West - February 05, 2024 15:15 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: How can I know if God not only loves me but likes me? My husband and I recently married but I find that I’m resentful and defensive because of things that happened during our 5 years of dating. I continue to grow angrier and resentful as our marriage goes on. Do y...
Letting My Future Husband Love My Body, Medical Infertility & TOB for 7th Graders | ACW265
Ask Christopher West - January 29, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: I’m engaged and looking forward to marriage but have struggled with body image and eating disorders. How can I prepare myself mentally, emotionally and/or physically for the marital embrace? How can I love my body more so that I can let my fiancé love it too? What...
Letting My Future Husband Love My Body, Medical Infertility & TOB for 7th Graders
Ask Christopher West - January 29, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: I’m engaged and looking forward to marriage but have struggled with body image and eating disorders. How can I prepare myself mentally, emotionally and/or physically for the marital embrace? How can I love my body more so that I can let my fiancé love it too? What...
Subjective Beauty, Abstinence from Sexual Intimacy & Unwanted Pregnancy. | ACW264
Ask Christopher West - January 22, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Is it true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? I become distant and irritable when abstaining from sexual intimacy with my wife. Do you have any advice? How can I accept an unwanted pregnancy? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of t...
Subjective Beauty, Abstinence from Sexual Intimacy & Unwanted Pregnancy.
Ask Christopher West - January 22, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Is it true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? I become distant and irritable when abstaining from sexual intimacy with my wife. Do you have any advice? How can I accept an unwanted pregnancy? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of t...
Makeup, Prescribing Contraception & NFP as Openness to Life | ACW263
Ask Christopher West - January 15, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Is there anything wrong with me for being attracted to someone only when she uses makeup? As a physician, is prescribing contraception a mortal sin? My husband thinks we should use NPF for the rest of our marriage but I long to continue having children. Do you hav...
Makeup, Prescribing Contraception & NFP as Openness to Life
Ask Christopher West - January 15, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Is there anything wrong with me for being attracted to someone only when she uses makeup? As a physician, is prescribing contraception a mortal sin? My husband thinks we should use NPF for the rest of our marriage but I long to continue having children. Do you hav...
Fertility Body Fluids, M*sturbation & Healing of Sexual Past | ACW262
Ask Christopher West - January 08, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: How do we reorient what we find gross about the bodily functions? What is masturbation? As a pre-engaged couple, how do we heal from our sexual past? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and hi...
Fertility Body Fluids, M*sturbation & Healing of Sexual Past
Ask Christopher West - January 08, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: How do we reorient what we find gross about the bodily functions? What is masturbation? As a pre-engaged couple, how do we heal from our sexual past? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and hi...
Getting Over First Love, Same Sex Attraction & Wedding Ceremony | ACW261
Ask Christopher West - January 03, 2024 02:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Will I ever get over my first love? Is it okay date others while still attached to another? What story does the body of a person with same sex attraction tell? Why does the bride come in after the priest at a wedding? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in wh...
Getting Over First Love, Same Sex Attraction & Wedding Ceremony
Ask Christopher West - January 03, 2024 02:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Will I ever get over my first love? Is it okay date others while still attached to another? What story does the body of a person with same sex attraction tell? Why does the bride come in after the priest at a wedding? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in wh...
Blessing of Same Sex Unions, Wedding Night & Intimacy in Prayer with Jesus and One Another. | ACW260
Ask Christopher West - December 25, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: What’s going on with the blessing of same sex unions? Does the TOB have anything to say about consummating your marriage on the wedding night? How do Christopher and Wendy live their intimacy with Jesus in parallel with their intimacy as husband and wife? Ask Chri...
Blessing of Same Sex Unions, Wedding Night & Intimacy in Prayer with Jesus and One Another.
Ask Christopher West - December 25, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: What’s going on with the blessing of same sex unions? Does the TOB have anything to say about consummating your marriage on the wedding night? How do Christopher and Wendy live their intimacy with Jesus in parallel with their intimacy as husband and wife? Ask Chri...
Spiritual Mothers in Parishes, Beauty Standards & "Not in the Mood"
Ask Christopher West - December 18, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Why are our parishes only run by fathers if the domestic church (the family) is run by fathers and mothers? I’m not “stunning” compared to the standards of beauty that society has. I know I’m “beautifully and wonderfully made” but I understand this only with my mi...
Spiritual Mothers in Parishes, Beauty Standards & "Not in the Mood" | ACW259
Ask Christopher West - December 18, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Why are our parishes only run by fathers if the domestic church (the family) is run by fathers and mothers? I’m not “stunning” compared to the standards of beauty that society has. I know I’m “beautifully and wonderfully made” but I understand this only with my mi...
Marital Jealousy in Heaven, Passing on Genetic Disease & Saying "No" | ACW258
Ask Christopher West - December 11, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: I’m getting married soon and I know that there will be no marriage in heaven. Recently the thought of spending such a short life with my future husband and then eternity alone has crept in. Can the TOB speak into this? I have a genetical disease that has a 50% pro...
Intrusive Thoughts After P*rn Usage, Is Circumcision Mutilation? & Baptism of Desire for Babies in Womb
Ask Christopher West - December 04, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: I’m a 40 year old husband and father. I grew up in a family dynamic where porn and masturbation was normal. I quitted porn after 7 years of marriage but now I’m really struggling with intrusive thoughts. Do you have any advice? I recently heard that circumcision i...
Intrusive Thoughts After P*rn Usage, Is Circumcision Mutilation? & Baptism of Desire for Babies in Womb | ACW257
Ask Christopher West - December 04, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: I’m a 40 year old husband and father. I grew up in a family dynamic where porn and masturbation was normal. I quitted porn after 7 years of marriage but now I’m really struggling with intrusive thoughts. Do you have any advice? I recently heard that circumcision i...
My Son is Gender Neutral, Dating an Older Woman & Listener's Affirmation | ACW256
Ask Christopher West - November 27, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: My son wants to change his name to a gender neutral name. What do I call him? I’ve developed a friendship with a woman that’s several years older than I am. As our friendship grows, the possibility of a romantic relationship has come up but I don’t feel “butterfli...
Wild Eros, Vampires & Modesty | ACW255
Ask Christopher West - November 22, 2023 13:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: Should I invite a girl out even though she might not share the same values and faith I do? How can I explain to a 3rd grader that consuming the Eucharist is not the same as vampirism? How can I let my girlfriend know that other men might look at the way she dresse...
Liberal Parish, Practical Advice to Overcome P*rn & the Receptive Role of Man | ACW254
Ask Christopher West - November 13, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: My current parish has a radically liberal priest and LGBTQ ministries. Should I speak to my parish priest or should I just look for another parish? I’ve struggled with pornography for a long time. Do you have any practical advice on how to overcome porn? I’m havi...
Death and Dinosaurs, Disinterested Gift & the Fruits of Sin | ACW253
Ask Christopher West - November 06, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsQuestions answered this episode: If death entered the world with the fall of man, what about all the other creatures on earth before man came into the scene? What is the disinterested gift that John Paul II talks about and how does it relate to eros? My wife does not want any more children and re...
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