Episodios

  • Torrey Maldonado interview (2024) - Christopher Closeup
    Jul 19 2024

    Two-time Christopher Award-winning author Torrey Maldonado discusses his latest novel, "Hands,” which shares a semi-autobiographical story about a 12-year-old boy torn between using his hands to fight his abusive stepfather or using them to create art and fulfill his mother’s wishes for him to have a better life.

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    28 m
  • John J. York interview (2024) - Christopher Closeup
    Jul 9 2024

    John J. York, the longtime “General Hospital” star who portrays Mac Scorpio, discusses his recent battle with two blood and bone marrow cancers, the stem cell transplant that helped him find healing, and the family, colleagues, and Catholic faith that supported him through the experience.

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    28 m
  • Sister Julia Walsh interview - Christopher Closeup
    May 14 2024

    Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA, discusses her memoir “For Love of the Broken Body,” her fall off a cliff which resulted in major injuries, and how her experience of brokenness has increased her love for God and humanity.

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    28 m
  • Brian Bird interview (2024) - Christopher Closeup
    Apr 30 2024

    Brian Bird, the Christopher Award-winning writer and producer of the Hallmark Channel series “When Calls the Heart,” discusses the show’s 11th season, how he integrates God and faith into his work, how TV can not only entertain, but also inspire us to be better people, and how he held on to his faith in a skeptical world.

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    52 m
  • Jeff Gottesfeld interview - Christopher Closeup
    Apr 16 2024

    Author Jeff Gottesfeld discusses his Christopher Award-winning children’s book “Food for Hope,” in which he profiles Catholic hero and role model John van Hengel, who created food banks for the hungry, inspired by his faith and the hardships of his life.

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    28 m
  • Gary Jansen interview (2024) - Christopher Closeup
    Apr 3 2024

    Christopher Award-winning author Gary Jansen discusses his latest book “Meditations at Midnight,” in which he creatively explores the many ways he has encountered God through the years – and in which he uses poetry to revisit Jesus’s passion and crucifixion.

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    28 m
  • Eric Clayton interview, Part 2 - Christopher Closeup
    Mar 6 2024

    Eric Clayton, the author of “Cannonball Moments” and “My Life with the Jedi” further discusses the connection between Ignatian spirituality and Star Wars, how we can all learn to be contemplatives in action, and how we can integrate the wounds we have endured to find wholeness and healing.

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    28 m
  • Eric Clayton interview, Part 1 - Christopher Closeup
    Feb 22 2024

    Eric Clayton, the author of “Cannonball Moments” and “My Life with the Jedi” discusses the influence St. Ignatius of Loyola has had on his life and faith, how we can respond to cannonball moments in our lives, and why Eric finds great value in the spirituality of "Star Wars."

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    28 m