Forte Catholic - Episodes Tagged with “Catholic Books”

421: Sacred Chaos of Motherhood w/Jennifer Stavinoha

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0500

At long last, one of Taylor's oldest friends rejoins the show to talk about her FIRST BOOK! Sacred Chaos is available for pre-order today! Jennifer travels an entire ten houses down the street to share why she wrote this book, how it can help Catholic mothers everywhere and also shares some insight about doing ministry with Taylor for 15+ years!

Pre-order Sacred Chaos today!
Ave Maria Press: https://www.avemariapress.com/products/sacred-chaos?srsltid=AfmBOorSFqY2sGVDkSffFHZhIMQJjzwh_RPJCetKfQ2ySyUY2FNWBH40

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Chaos-Finding-Messiness-Motherhood/dp/1646803957

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Special Guest: Jennifer Stavinoha.

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407: Aching for Greatness w/ Tanner Kalina

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0600

Tanner is our guest cohost this week as we get to know him, hear about his journey from acting in LA to Catholic leader & hear about his new book from Ave Maria Press.

I've been working with Tanner behind the scenes on a couple of his podcast projects and we started to get to know each other a bit and found out that we had a lot in common! Tanner shares about his past in college baseball, having a hit movie and his friend Glen(one of the best moments in show history!)

We hope you enjoy this fun and insightful episode. May you and yours have a blessed Thanksgiving week!

Get the book: https://www.avemariapress.com/products/aching-for-greatness?srsltid=AfmBOoolM1HGgnMhaia-HQAwHFUGnqfsdtzC0kRZ0jAMtTYoJFPrtkm1

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Special Guest: Tanner Kalina.

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Kathryn Whitaker's First Guest Appearances | Forte Flashback

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0600

We're doing a Forte Flashback this week, highlighting our cohost Kathryn Whitaker's first two appearances on the podcast as a guest. These conversations were the seeds planted that eventually led to her joining us on a monthly basis.

Today's show kicks off with her first appearance is person on Ep 256. We were recording in Liv Harrison's house so the three of us shared some things that are anchors or foundations for them as people that keep us strong during even the toughest of times.

Then we go alllll the way back to Ep 153. This was back in our radio/podcast days. The title of the episode was "Nightmares Are You Scaring /you" which is still one of my favorite episode titles. We discuss her book "Live Big, Love Bigger: Getting Real with BBQ, Sweet Tea and a Whole Lotta Jesus" which is a title that perfectly captures Kathryn's aura. She shares her story of dealing with loss and pain, how it affected her relationship with Christ and, as a bonus, how to share your faith without being a weirdo.

If you like this episode, all of our episodes are available wherever you are listening to this. Check out our backlog if you've joined us at some point in the last eight years!
A great place to start is the list of our top ten episodes which can be found at ForteCatholic.com/podcasts.

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Special Guest: Kathryn Whitaker.

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355: Catholic in the Workplace & Sacramentals w/ Shaun McAfee

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0500

Shaun is back! One of the OG cohosts returns for a fun conversation.

How to live your faith in the workplace has been a frequently requested topic for us to tackle so we finally found someone who doesn't work for the Church lol. Shaun talks about how he is able to live his faith in his fancy government job.

They also talk about Sacramentals which is one of Shaun's favorite topics & Taylor doesn't understand all the hubbub. Shaun does his best to convince Taylor of their importance in the lives of Catholics. It's almost like he wrote a book about them or something...(https://tanbooks.com/products/books/compendium-of-sacramentals-encyclopedia-of-the-churchs-blessings-signs-and-devotions/)

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Special Guest: Shaun McAfee.

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282: Redemptive Suffering, Catholic Mashup & The Way w/Bearded Blevins

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0600

Jon "Bearded" Blevins cohosts as Taylor shares how he almost died in order to hang out with Jon. Then they discuss Amazon Prime's hit show "Wheel of Time" and how it connects to Redemptive Suffering this Lent.

In the second segment, Taylor tries the Catholic Mashup game with Jon. We combine clues for a Catholic hero and a pop culture star and see if the cohost can guess the name by the clues for each person.

Finally, the walk through some of the best lines of St. Jose Maria Escriva's spiritual classic "The Way." Enjoy! :)

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162: I'm Catholic, Now What? w/Tim Glemkowski

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:00:00 -0600

Taylor announces he's going to Rome to visit holy places...and cohost Shaun McAfee! The guys chat about why pilgrimages are a thing and the benefits they can bring.

Our guest this week is Han Solo clone, Tim Glemkowski. The guys go crazy for a bit and then get around to talking about Tim's book "Made For Mission" about parish culture. He shares what us little laypeople can do to give and receive more from our parishes.

In the final segment, Taylor begrudgingly lets Shaun plug his new book "I'm Catholic, Now What?" Believe it or not, Shaun's book is actually quite intriguing and led to a fun convo on how good or bad of a Catholic Taylor really is.

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158: Joke Fest, Homily Interruptions & Wrecking Ball God w/ Amanda Vernon

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:00:00 -0500

Fr. Anthony Sciarappa cohosts in what may be our fastest paced joke fest ever recorded! We chat about our weekends including a tall hat guy, preaching to plants, angry Taylor, terrible travel and making Fr. Anthony speechless.

Our guest this week is recording artist Amanda Vernon! She's doing great work as the Catholic Alycia Keys through her music and new book "When God Wrecks Your Romance." She somehow gets Fr. Anthony to recall his dating life before the priesthood and it was beautiful to watch unfold. She is an absolute joy with a fun life story to share unlike any you've heard before. (AmandaVernon.com)

In the final segment, we check in to see if Fr. Anthony is giving any good homilies lately and Taylor gets to live the dream of what every lay person has wanted to do during homilies since the dawn of time. Enjoy as you live vicariously though Taylor.

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Special Guest: Amanda Vernon.

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153: Nightmares Are You Scaring You w/ Kathryn Whitaker

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:00:00 -0500

Allison Sullivan(aka Girl Host) cohosts this week to join Taylor in conversations about lightning storms, supervillains, prophets and nightmares.

Our guest is Kathryn Whitaker to talk about her new book "Live Big, Love Bigger: Getting Real with BBQ, Sweet Tea and a Whole Lotta Jesus." She shares her story of dealing with loss and pain, how it affected her relationship with Christ and, as a bonus, how to share your faith without being a weirdo.

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Special Guest: Kathryn Whitaker.

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122: Humility & Exodus 90 w/ Joel Stepanek & Jon Blevins

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:00:00 -0600

Jon Blevins co-hosts and gives an update from inside Exodus 90. Taylor's take on the matter has become quite public so we let someone who's in the middle of doing it report on how it's going. Tune in to find out!

Joel Stepanek first came on the show as guest co-host on episode 33 and now rejoins to share about humility. His new book "Chasing Humility" is coming out just in time for Lent! It revolves around the Litany of Humility, which Jon and Taylor are terrible at. Joel gives insight into how many of us misunderstand humility. It was a fun and eye-opening convo.

The finish off the show, Taylor and Jon discuss dry spells in the spiritual life, how to deal with them & how to get out. And Taylor shares a modern day parenting miracle ;)

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Special Guest: Joel Stepanek.

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113: Controversial Topics w/Leila Miller, finding a home in the Church & NCCYM

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:00:00 -0600

Taylor has returned from the National Catholic Conference of Youth Ministry with stories & insights, including a Mass Text segment(without the intro...whoops). We decide which homily is better between Taylor's, a 6'8" Bishop's & co-host Fr. Jared's.

In the second segment, we are joined by Leila Miller, co-author of "Made This Way: How To Prepare Kids To Face Today’s Tough Moral Issues." In this book, she and Trent Horn team up to cover how to guide our children to Heaven in today's culture, especially how to answer tough questions about sex outside of marriage, modesty, homosexuality and more.

To close out the show, Taylor and Fr. Jared discuss finding a home in a broken Church through the lyrics of Hillsong's latest hit "Who You Say I Am."

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109: Keeping Things Simple & Humble w/ The Coolest Monk EVER!

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:00:00 -0600

Fr. Anthony Sciarappa co-hosts(WHAT!?!?!) as we talk about what Taylor learned about keeping things simple from the high school students he was on retreat with this weekend. (The students may or may not have been a little comically confused)

In the second segment, we are joined by a listener favorite Fr. Augustine Wetta. He rejoins the show(from his high school classroom with actual students in it) to talk about his new novel "The Eighth Arrow" which explores what it would be like if Odysseus from the Odyssey was in Dante's Inferno. The book is a thoroughly entertaining jailbreak story, full of allusions to great works of old and the lessons contained. A segment with the monk who breaks all monk stereotypes is always entertaining.

In the final segment, Taylor and Fr. Anthony bring back the "Mass Text" segment to revisit this past Sunday's readings, see how Father's homily went, discuss being bad at humility & why truths survive the test of time.

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Episode 66: The Coolest Monk EVER! & Persuasive Pro-life w/Trent Horn

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600

Special episode with double the guests!

We start the show off talking about our recent staff trip to Top Golf and my observations on what the Church can learn from Top Golf.

in the second segment, you will meet the man who blew up my idea of what a monk was! Fr. Augustine is HILARIOUS and wrote a tremendous book on humility.

In the final segment, I am joined once again by Catholic Answers own Trent Horn during Pro-life month to discuss how to be persuasive in pro-life conversations.

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Special Guest: Trent Horn.

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