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Agape Latte | The Podcast shares authentic stories, snapshots from each speaker’s faith and life journey, to pass on transformative lessons. Agape Latte is a national coffeehouse storytelling series created in 2006 by the C21 Center and Campus Ministry at Boston College.
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Fr. Tom Stegman (1963–2023), former dean of the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College, shares his story about how he learned to trust his inner voice and lean into God's calling on his life as he discerned his vocation in the priesthood and then after his cancer diagnosis at 22.
FR. TOM STEGMAN, S.J.:
Fr. Tom Stegman, S.J., of the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus, was raised in Holdrege, Nebraska. He was a graduate of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia (B.A., Philosophy). He held an M.A. (Philosophy) from Marquette University, and both an M.Div. and S.T.L. (Hebrew Bible) from Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He earned his Ph.D. in New Testament studies at Emory University. In his spare time, he followed the Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Cardinals, and Nebraska Cornhuskers.
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Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Lavette Scott-Smith shares her story about getting her joy back after losing her mom.
Lavette Scott-Smith is an IT Training and Events Specialist for Information Technology Services at Boston College.
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Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Melodie Wyttenbach shares her story about falling in love with her life and discovering her calling when she was in college. For the past 20 years, she's been a teacher, a camp director, a principal, and now directing the Roche Center at Boston College supporting educators from all over the country. Her journey started on a school bus on an unexpected trip that changed her life.
Melodie Wyttenbach is the Executive Director for the Roche Center for Catholic Education at Boston College.
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Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Karen Kiefer shares her story about guardian angels, unwrapping our worth, and celebrating that 'It's a Wonderful Life.' This episode is a live recording from Dec. 8, 2020 (the speaker is wearing a mask).
Karen Kiefer is the director of the C21 Center and Agape Latte at Boston College.
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Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Professor Brian Braman shares his story about navigating a major crossroads in his life and finding the grace in his depression diagnosis. This episode is a live recording from 2019.
Brian Braman is a professor in the Philosophy Department at Boston College.
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Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Professor Brian Robinette shares his story about the time he quit his “dream job” in advertising to become a janitor at a church after a massive quarter-life crisis. This is the story of the best mess he ever made. This episode is a live recording from 2018.
Brian Robinette is currently a professor in the Theology Department at Boston College.
“To actually take on this kind of crisis can feel like it’s going to destroy or unravel everything that you’ve been working towards all along and here’s what I have to say to you: Let it. Let that happen. Is to not be so focused on some sort of goal that you think that you have, or other people have of you, that you can’t take sufficient time to allow yourself to be deeply confused -to not really know what you’re doing and to really not know what you’re doing. To have a crisis more fully is what I’m suggesting, to have a more complete crisis where you lean into it. You’re not generating crisis or unnecessary drama in your life – you’re actually leaning in and allowing the confusion to be some sort of potential source of wisdom for you…” – Prof. Brian Robinette
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Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Fr. Casey Beaumier, S.J. shares his story about how a journey to try to meet Maya Angelou with $30, a one-way bus ticket, and a dream led him to a place he never expected: finding his purpose. This episode is a live recording from 2015.
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Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
How did Fr. Pat Nolan, S.J. decide to leave his career path in the sports marketing industry in New York to join the Jesuits? In this episode, he shares his story of how one fateful plane ride, a pair of forgotten headphones, and paying attention to the possibilities in front of him changed the course of his life.
BIO | FR. PATRICK NOLAN, S.J.
Fr. Patrick Nolan, S.J., the youngest of seven children, grew up on Long Island, NY. After seven years working in the sports marketing industry, Nolan entered the Society of Jesus. As a Jesuit, he has worked as an orderly in cancer hospital, visited inmates in a jail, taught, coached, and served as a college counselor in the Pacific Islands of Micronesia, and studied at Loyola University Chicago and Boston College. Ordained in 2018, his current mission is at Boston College High School where he serves as assistant director of enrollment and chaplain to athletics. He also serves as the vocation promoter for the New England region of the USA East Province of the Jesuits. On the weekends, Fr. Pat says Mass in the parishes of South Boston and at various Boston-area colleges, including BC at the St. Ignatius 9:30 p.m. Mass.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
In this episode, Mia Cruz shares a candid story about how navigating the uncertainty of the pandemic taught her how to make room for change, to embrace the non-linearity of life, and to create space for the hope that things will be better.
Mia Cruz is a professor in the Theology Department at Boston College.
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Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Dealing with changing plans, uncertainty about the future, and spending less time with the people we care about has seemed to become the new normal. Mike Serazio shares how he's been finding patience during this new normal. Mike Serazio is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Boston College.
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