Gayle Trotter

“It is possible to hold onto a desire of our heart without succumbing to bitterness or a fretful anxiety about the future, but to be content here and now.”Gayle spoke with Jennifer Marshall about the challenges of being single in the twenty-first century.  Jennifer is the director . . . . Continue Reading »

“I had hunted down this specialist like a crazed groupie and had really badgered his office for just about a year to convince him to come out and consult with Max and consult for us.  I thought he was really going to give me that key — that one piece of advice and help that was going . . . . Continue Reading »

“The question isn’t so much whether it’s possible to be morally good without religion.  It’s like saying is it possible to dig a hole with a teaspoon.  Sure, but wouldn’t you rather do it with a backhoe?”Gayle spoke with Father Thomas Williams LC about . . . . Continue Reading »

“God said, ‘Shannon, I hung naked on a cross for you.  Look at your son.’  What does it matter what these people around me think of me or my mothering or what’s happening in this moment?”Gayle spoke with Shannon Royce, President & C.E.O. of . . . . Continue Reading »

The desire to be a part of the “inner ring” and the “terror of being left outside” is a chief motivation underlying many human behaviors.  C.S. Lewis highlighted the dangers in our “longing to enter” as well as “our anguish when we are excluded and the . . . . Continue Reading »

“I guess all of us live a double life in a sense or at least we are tempted in that direction.  We split our lives in two between the religious part and the everday part.  Escriva’s message is that it is all meant to hang together as a life lived in the service of God and other . . . . Continue Reading »

“Faith never came out in bombast or brimstone; it was just a part of who they were, as much as the books they read.”Gayle spoke with Eleanor Brown about her excellent and poignant debut novel, The Weird Sisters.  The New York Times, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, . . . . Continue Reading »

“If we were pacifists, we would have been in the wrong jobs, because I don’t think it’s advisable to have pacifists in the White House, particularly for situations like 9/11.  In government, you take an oath to protect your fellow citizens and you have to take that . . . . Continue Reading »

Gayle talks with Thomas Fowler about The Evolution Controversy, a book surveying the competing theories surrounding evolution.  Fowler (ScD, George Washington University) is Senior Principal Engineer at the Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications at Noblis, formerly known . . . . Continue Reading »

The following is a transcript of part two of Gayle Trotter’s podcast interview with George Weigel.  Gayle talks with Weigel about The End and the Beginning, the newly released second part of his biography of John Paul II.  Weigel, the author of fifteen books and a weekly . . . . Continue Reading »