#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 192 minutes

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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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0:29.8	We're coming through a curve. Dad had a dish bowl like on the dashboard of the truck.
0:33.9	We took this curve and the dish started sliding across the dashboard. So he leaned over to grab it when he did yank the steering wheel and went in the ditch and cut a culvert and started
0:42.3	in cartwheels. What advice would you have for kids who have lost parents? All this angst
0:47.2	that we have is wrestling with the death question. We don't know when it's coming. We know
0:51.2	it's coming. And we can't control that. You know, and so that terrifies us.
0:56.5	And so we do all these things that distract us from that.
0:58.5	The life of faith is really preparing for a good death.
1:05.9	Father Stephen Gadbury, welcome to the show, man.
1:09.1	Thanks a lot.
1:10.4	It's a good. Happy here.
1:11.5	Thanks.
1:12.2	But, yeah, you know, I found you.
1:14.7	Actually, I don't remember how I found you, but I ran across your Instagram profile one way or another.
1:20.3	And I just, I saw what you're posting, working out on your cycle, lots of hunting, shooting your bow.
1:29.9	And I just, I think that's, I don't want to sound offensive.
1:34.7	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 I think that
1:50.5	masculinity has damn near disappeared in the world over the past 10 to 15 years and and we just
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