
The Lamplighters
The Lamp · Nic Rowan
Show overview
The Lamplighters has been publishing since 2022, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 31 episodes. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 41 min and 50 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.8 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Nic Rowan.
From the publisher
The podcast of The Lamp magazine, hosted by Matthew Walther and Nic Rowan.
Latest Episodes
View all 31 episodesS1 Ep 32The Lost World
Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda P. join our hosts to discuss dinosaurs, paleontology, and Genesis.
S1 Ep 31Interview with a Robot
Timothy Nerozzi joins our hosts to discuss his recent piece for the website and to interview its subject, the recently laicized AI priest, Father Justin.
Ep 30The Travel Team Trap
Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner joins our hosts to discuss his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, and to debate "The Travel Team Trap" with Nick Cotta, a father of eight children, two of whom play travel sports.
S1 Ep 29More Impossible Things
Stanley Fish joins our hosts to discuss "Impossible Things," his recent essay for the magazine, in which he catologues the latest attempts in a perennial project to clean up human behavior, from blind submission to critical legal studies to artificial intelligence. Professor Fish is the presidential scholar in residence at New College, Florida, and the author of many books, most recently, Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art, which is available for purchase here.
S1 Ep 27The Tootsie Pop Test
Urban Hannon joins our hosts to discuss Lenten practices, as well as his new book, Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentaries on the Mass.
S1 Ep 26The Melting Pot
Megan McArdle of the Washington Post joins our hosts to discuss immigration and what it means to be American.
S1 Ep 25The Bad Old Days
Amanda Piccirillo of the Josias podcast and Lydia Sherwood join our hosts to discuss memories (and false memories) of the Church of our youth.
S1 Ep 24Houses in Motion
Stephen White, executive director of the Catholic Project, joins our hosts to discuss his organization's recent report examining generational differences among the men who are ordained to the priesthood.
S1 Ep 23Why This Girl?
Father Joseph Koczera, S.J., a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and Andrew Petiprin, a columnist for Catholic World Report and host of the Ignatius Press podcast, join the Lamplighters to discuss the legacy of The Excorcist.
S1 Ep 22Was King Arthur Real?
Shawn Phillip Cooper joins the Lamplighters to discuss King Arthur, Thomas Malory, and the Sword in the Stone.
S1 Ep 20The Crisis of Catholic Atheism
Michael Hanby joins the Lamplighters to discuss his essay in the Trinity 2023 issue of the magazine.
S1 Ep 19The Life of Pablo
Jaspreet Singh Boparai joins our hosts to discuss art criticism and an exhibition of Picasso's works at the Brooklyn Museum.
S1 Ep 18'Tis Good, Lord, to Be Here
Jake Neu joins the Lamplighters to discuss how parents with young children participate at Mass.
S1 Ep 18Should Birth Be Free?
Tom Shakely of Americans United for Life and Megan McArdle of the Washington Post join our editor to discuss family policy after the fall of Roe v. Wade in a panel hosted with the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. A video recording of the event is available here.
S1 Ep 17The Habsburg Way
Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen joins our hosts to discuss his family and his new book, The Habsburg Way: 7 Rules for Turbulent Times, which can be purchased here.
S1 Ep 16Breakfast for Easter
Marlo Slayback and Chris McCaffery join our hosts to discuss Easter feasts.
S1 Ep 15The Great Fast
Timothy Nerozzi and Jeremy Christiansen join our hosts to discuss fasting, abstinence, and other Lenten practices.
Thank Them Now
Steven Knepper and Timothy McLeod join our hosts to discuss cycling and mentorship. Subscribers can read Steven's recent piece on the subject here.
S1 Ep 13Benedict's Legacy
Father Jon Tveit joins our hosts to discuss Pope Benedict XVI's life and legacy. The Lamp's latest issue, which commemorates Joseph Ratzinger, is available for sale here or through a subscription.
S1 Ep 12Mama Shot the Deer!
Ryan T. Anderson and Anna Anderson join the Lamplighters to discuss farming and raising children around animals. Subscribers can read Ryan's recent essay on the subject here.