In Conversation with David Goa19 Aug 2025

32: Love of Learning Desire for God: Victor Carpay

I am joined by Victor Carpay in this podcast. I never had the pleasure of having Victor in one of the classes I was privileged to teach. We talked periodically in the atrium of Newman, and I glimpsed how the study of the great books, the Socratic method, the Newman community, and the liturgical life were at work in nurturing his mind and heart. Victor is likely the most precocious businessman I have ever met. He also began engaging party politics as a young boy, an experience completely foreign to me. You will hear Victor speak about how his Newman education, his professors Drs Topping and Fast, initiated him to reading the great books, taught him to enter the author’s mind, appreciate the questions and problems each author wrestled with. Each of these great books, whether it was the Iliad, Plato and Aristotle, Boethius and Aquinas through to Nietzsche and Marx have touched his mind and prepared him for engaging others including those he may not immediately understand. The Socratic method so finely taught at Newman has reshaped his political understanding. As a young passionate conservative, he has come to realize, as Aristotle taught, that friendship is central to the political life in a civil society. Once you can find something mutually cared for and cared for across party lines politics begins. Welcome to our conversation.

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31: Love of Learning Desire for God: Jacqueline Richard

I am joined by Jacqueline Richard in this podcast. I had a lovely afternoon several years ago reading T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets with Jacqueline and her now husband Reid. On that occasion she talked a...

21 Jul 20251h 8min

30: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Anna Sidloski

I am joined by Anna Sidloski in this podcast. Anna grew up in Saskatchewan, was largely home school within an intentional community that formed the love of learning and the desire for God. How this co...

19 Jun 20251h 15min

29: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Andre Boudreau

I am joined by Andre Boudreau in this podcast. Andre grew up in Calgary and attended the junior seminary of Christ the King for grades 9 through 12. This junior seminary is part of Westminster Abby i...

30 Mai 20251h 30min

28: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God

Every day I met with these students and their collogues was a delight. Every day as I left the campus, I marveled at what seemed to be unfolding. Students were dwelling in and with great literature. T...

2 Mai 202511min

27: The Theotokos Joy of Canada Icon with Archbishop Vladika Lazar

Our conversation begins with the history that led to the commissioning of the icon. We then explore the landscape of meaning associated with such icons in the ancient world, their invocation for the p...

11 Apr 202551min

26: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Todd Weibe

An aspect of Todd’s ministry is embedded in the title of a newsletter he anchors with the provocative title, Evangelically Departed. For the last decade or so, Todd has engaged many and varied evangel...

5 Jul 20241h 14min

25: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Eden Jersak

Eden grew up in the bosom of a Mennonite community. Belonging was woven into her childhood. Her mother and other women were leaders within the church. She treasured the piety and pacifism of the churc...

25 Apr 20241h 29min