Father Stephen Gadberry is a priest in the Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas, ordained on May 28, 2016. Born and raised on a farm in the Arkansas Delta, he enlisted in the Air Force after high school, serving in Texas, Germany, and Central Iraq during the mid-2000s. With degrees in philosophy and theology from St. Joseph Seminary College and Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, he’s a scholar and a shepherd. As Word on Fire Institute fellow, he’s also hosted EWTN’s Breaking Bread and tackled obstacle courses on American Ninja Warrior. When he’s not leading Mass at St. Theresa Church in Little Rock, he’s lifting weights or coaching CrossFit, he spends time with his dogs, Murph and Shorty. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://www.tryarmra.com/SRS https://www.betterhelp.com/SRS This episode is sponsored by Better Help. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. https://www.boncharge.com/SRS https://www.meetfabric.com/SHAWN https://www.shawnlikesgold.com https://www.helixsleep.com/SRS https://www.lumen.me/SRS https://www.patriotmobile.com/SRS https://www.ziprecruiter.com/SRS Father Stephen Gadberry Links: IG - https://www.instagram.com/fatherstephenjgadberry “The Making of a Catholic Priest” documentary - https://youtu.be/HumCsGbVAp4 Ministry with Bishop Robert Barron and Word on Fire IG - https://www.instagram.com/bishopbarron IG - https://www.instagram.com/wordonfire_catholicministries Mayhem Hunt IG - https://www.instagram.com/mayhemhunt Saint Theresa Catholic Church IG - https://www.instagram.com/sainttheresalr YT - https://youtube.com/@sainttheresacatholicchur-kb8cn Saint Theresa School IG - https://www.instagram.com/stscougars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We're coming through a curve. Dad had a dish bowl like on the dashboard of the truck. We took this curve and the dish started sliding across the dashboard. So he leaned over to grab it. When he did, yanked the steering wheel and went in the ditch and caught a culvert and started in cartwheels. What advice would you have for kids who have lost parents?
All this angst that we have is wrestling with the death question. We don't know when it's coming. We know it's coming and we can't control that. You know, and so that...
that terrifies us and so we do all these things that distract us from that the life of faith is really preparing for a good death father stephen gadberry welcome to the show man thanks a lot happy to have you here thanks but uh yeah you know i found you actually i don't remember how i found you but i ran across your instagram profile one way or another and uh i just
I saw what you're posting, working out on your cycle, lots of hunting, shooting your bow. And I just, I think that's, I don't want to sound offensive. I think it's really cool that you're a priest displaying like raw masculinity like that and making it cool. And I mean, I think that, masculinity has damn near disappeared in the world over the past 10 to 15 years.
And we just spoke, we think it's making a comeback. But on top of that, you just don't see priests doing that kind of stuff. And I think everybody, I mean, I grew up Catholic, and you just don't think of a priest out... hunting big game, or doing grueling workouts, or shooting their bow, or cycling, or really any of that. Everybody kind of thinks of them as, what do they do?
Pray all the time and do the rosary? I thought that was really cool, and that's what drew my attention to you. I think I've been following you for about a year, maybe a little longer. I just wanted to get you on the show. We had my friend... Father Dan Rehill on, and that was a fascinating interview.
And so, yeah, I kind of want to do a little bit of a life story on you and then dive into some of the stuff with the Catholic Church. I've got a ton of questions. But, yeah, thanks for coming.
Yeah, thanks for the invite. I only work on Sundays, so I've got all the time you need to know. Not really. Yeah, no, it's, you know, in the Catholic Church, the pastor, the leader is called father. Because, you know, like being the spiritual father, you know, a father is one that generates life. And if you're going to generate life, you got to have some energy in you.
And I think we have a lot of, men out there who aren't fathers because they're not generating energy. They're just, they're stale. They're stagnant. They're too closed in on themselves. But I mean, we got a fire in us and God just wants us to spread that thing, you know? So yeah, I just try to do that through the social media stuff and day-to-day life.
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