Shine Bright Like the Firmament
Conversations with STEM professionals who are practicing Catholics to show that faith and science don't need to be mutually exclusive.
Episodes
104 episodes
Engineering Your Own Weirdness
In this episode, Madeline chats with Evan Rowland, a CAD and consumer electronics mechanical engineer. During their conversation, they discuss everyone’s own unique weirdness, engineering ethics, his time at Colorado School of Mines, his time i...
Living That Which is Life
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Gabe Fuselier, an internal medicine hospitalist at a Catholic hospital. During their conversation, they discuss an explanation of what internal medicine is, how he got into medicine and his specia...
Watchpoint
In this episode, Madeline chats with Donan Scholl, creator of the upcoming sci-fi tabletop game Watchpoint--the game that inspired Madeline's favorite novel Markmaker. During their conversation, they discuss the video games that inspired the wo...
Touch Grass While Listening to This Podcast
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Alex Cass, a senior software engineer at a financial company. During their conversation, they discuss his conversion from being a Southern Baptist, the importance of the Eucharist and worship, the...
Darwin and Doctrine
🎉 🎉 🎉 It's the 100th episode of this podcast! 🎉 🎉 🎉In this episode, Madeline chats again with biologist Dan Kuebler to celebrate the release of his new book, Darwin and Doctrine. During their conversation, they discuss what inspired him ...
The Holy Ghost in The Machine
In this episode, Madeline chats with Matt Rubio, a test engineer. During their conversation, they discuss his experience being a charismatic Catholic, the perceived divide between traditional and charismatic Catholicism, a brief history of the ...
The Making of Markmaker
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Mary Woods, author of the sci-fantasy novel Markmaker. During their conversation, they discuss her bookish inspiration, the roleplaying game that gave Markmaker its setting, the ...
Consistency Instead of Contradiction
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Ben Fetterman, a chemical laboratory technician. During their conversation, they discuss his conversion from evangelical Mennonite to Byzantine Catholic, a brief history of Mennonites and the Amis...
Tangents Are Features, Not Bugs
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend J.C. Hall, a PhD student in moral theology/ethics at Catholic University of America with a specialization in bioethics. During their conversation, they discuss his biochemical engineering degree a...
Not All Who Wonder Are Lost
In this episode, Madeline chats with Fr. Jim McCormack, a priest of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and a former electrical engineer. During their conversation, they discuss the history and charism of the Marian Fathers, the con...
God Made That
In this episode, Madeline chats with Bill Jacobs and Kat Hoenke, both ecologists and conservationists. During their conversation, they discuss the St. Kateri Conservation Center, the connections of the Seven Deadly Sins to environmental issues,...
Join Us. We Have Community.
In this episode, Madeline chats with Erin Brady, the director of the Culp Planetarium and Physics Lab Manager at High Point University. During their conversation, they discuss how summer just flies by, being able to balance different priorities...
Making Lemonade out of Lemons
In this episode, Madeline chats with Khoi Huynh, a third year medical student. During their conversation, they discuss some sports banter, growing up in Southeast Asia, how they were introduced, the existential crisis that made him take his fai...
Focusing on What's Important
In this episode, Madeline chats with Edmund Lazzari, a professor in the Catholic Studies department at Duquesne University. During their conversation, they discuss the kinds of questions that science and theology ask, the value of a liberal art...
All Things Have Purpose
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Sara Schultz, the director of the planetarium at Minnesota State University-Moorhead. During their conversation, they discuss her undergrad at Minnesota State University-Moorhead, her masters at U...
You Can Do Hard Things
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Liz Norman, 2nd year PhD student at Purdue University in the Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences. During their conversation, they discuss her physics undergrad at North Carolin...
A Tale of Two Thomases
In this episode, Madeline chats with Fr. Alexander Millar, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria who was (at the time of recording) one of the chaplains of St. John's Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is curr...
Game of Favorites
In this episode, Madeline chats with Peter Schmidt, a professional comedian, streamer, and amateur coder. During their conversation, they discuss how Madeline found out about Game of Favorites, the inspiration for the show, basics of coding, be...
A Multi-Leg Journey
In this episode, Madeline chats with Joseph A'Hearn, an astronomer, physicist, and data scientist. During their conversation, they discuss the example of his parents, minor seminary, his seminary formation, Legionaries of Christ, his lifelong i...
Down for the Detour
In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Marita, a senior research assistant in a medical research lab. During their conversation, they discuss her undergrad at a small liberal arts college, learning languages and traveling, how they ser...
Coming Into Community
In this episode, Madeline chats with Cole Ciervo, a propulsion engineer for Ursa Major Technologies. During their conversation, they discuss IU-Purdue banter, insights into Purdue Engineering, first year engineering classes, the importance of w...
The Riddle of The Tongue-Stones
In this episode, Madeline chats again with her friend Thomas Salerno, a freelance writer, editor, and fellow podcaster with a background in paleontology and anthropology to celebrate the release of his new book, The Riddle of The Tongue Stones....
I'll Make Him An Offer He Can't Refuse
In this episode, Madeline chats with Connor Thompson, a chemical engineer in training at a company in the Pacific Northwest. During their conversation, they discuss some I&A lore, his different science phases as a kid, his high school scien...
Shine Bright Like The Firmament x The Work of Thy Hands
🎉 🎉 🎉 It's been THREE years since the start of this podcast! 🎉 🎉 🎉In this special anniversary episode, Madeline shares an interview of herself that originally aired on The Work of Thy Hands podcast with fellow creative Allison Ramirez. ...
Embracing Your Inner Dork
In this episode, Madeline chats with Kyle Shepard, an engineering PhD student at Purdue University. During their conversation, they discuss his childhood in Oklahoma, Internet research rabbit holes, critical thinking, his undergrad and Master’s...
