Soil and Soul

Welcome back to Soil and Soul, with our week 1 of Faithful Farming on Thursdays. Here, we look to connect testimonies and reflections on rural life and agriculture, along with our strongest roots, in faith. Sometimes, like today, we may host solo and share from our own thoughts and experiences. In this episode, Aaron discusses seeing the light off in the distance, even when everything around you is dark and gloomy. And reminds us to remember where our hope comes from, hope even in the hard times.

Welcome back to Soil and Soul and this harvest's first episode of Wednesday World Concerns. Aaron and Kayla discuss their blending perspectives on farming and the harvest season. It's important to be able to look outside our own box and narrow focus, understanding another perspective and how it can ultimately strengthen us and our relationships.

Welcome back to Soil and Soul, with the first Tuesday's Toolbox of the harvest season. Host Aaron reflects on his pocketknife took he carries everyday and how he can turn it metaphorical over to his faith life. Fr. Pat Behm also continues this week's Bible Breakout, leading our episode off with an excellent reflection.

Welcome back to Soil & Soul! Fall and harvest is upon us and we hope you all will see great fruits this season, both in the fields and in your spiritual lives. Today's first episode of our seasonal podcast brings back Passing on the Faith Through Farming with Fr. Feller, and he is joined by a guest (and our new podcast co-host), Kayla Venner. Fr. Feller and Kayla share a wonderful conversation where they overview our Soil and Soul podcast, discuss Kayla's background, operation, family, and faith, and offer some nuggets of wisdom to take away as well.

Welcome to our final episode of Soil & Soul for this planting season. We hope you've enjoyed being a part of this ministry project with us, as a listener and in prayerful and reflective communion. Hopefully our ramblings and musings have found at least some place in your mind and heart with relatability and connection to something more. Perhaps a spark where you needed it, a push, or just an encouragement for your own relationship with God. And that's where we (mostly) take this Family Friday episode. Aaron and Scott discuss the importance of a strong relationality, from your immediate family structure here, to your spiritual relationships. We hope that this podcast has blessed you in some small way. We look forward to bringing Soil & Soul back in the fall harvest time frame, and we encourage you to join us then. In the meantime, check out our other content from Catholic Passage, such as our primary podcast, The Catholic Passage Podcast, plus our videos and other content on YouTube, Facebook, and our website, catholicpassage@gmail.com.

Welcome to our fourth and final weekly Faithful Farming episode for this season of Soil & Soul during planting time. We're joined by a great guest, Ben McDonald, who is a close friend of host Aaron Lorch and a Catholic farmer in NE Iowa. Ben shares from his personal story and insight, as we look to where faith and farming upbringings intertwine. This is a great and rich conversation that you'll want to hear in entirety. Ben and Aaron's discussion will likely offer insights and relatable experiences for you to reflect on yourself.

Welcome to our final weekly episode of Wednesday World Concerns for our seasonal Soil & Soul podcast. Today, co-host Aaron Lorch and Scott Sibbel discuss an important and pertinent topic that's on everyone's mind and heart at the moment: the papal conclave, currently taking place. We hope that our musings and reflection can offer some relatability and groundedness as we all try to sort out the media info and busyness of this very current event topic. Most importantly, we ask you all to join us in prayer, as we truly are called to communion and spiritual participation.

Welcome to our 4th week and final Tuesday of this Soil & Soul project, for now, during this planting season. If you'd like to follow our other work from Catholic Passage, follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and our website: catholicpassage.com. Today's episode has Scott Sibbel discussing the useful and often necessary fence stretcher tool, that most ranchers are quite familiar with. Just like a high tensile wire fence, we also need to be stretched and molded into place at times. Our spiritual lives also ebb and flow. Are you going to allow God to work within you and tighten things up?

Welcome to our fourth and final week of Soil & Soul, for now, during this planting season. This Monday's episode has Fr. Feller joined by AJ and Kellie Blair, a farm couple from the Dayton, IA area. This is a great interview and a conversation you won't want to miss! We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Welcome to Soil & Soul and another Friday episode, although with a new name change. We're changing the format from a topic/question mailbag discussion, to a family focused conversation, full of relatable stories and experiences. Join us moving forward, with laughs, sadness, joy, and knowing nods, as we all have plenty to share from our own childhoods and in raising children too. We look to delve into how our Christian faith and these family experiences intertwine. In this first episode, Aaron Lorch shares from recent experiences of both new life and death, joy and sadness, reflecting on how we share such moments as a family, strengthened in faith.

Welcome to Soil & Soul! In this week's Thursday episode, Scott Sibbel is joined again by his son, Anthony, who is currently a seminarian for the Diocese of Sioux City, IA. Anthony shares his own testimony and experience of growing up on the farm, his faith journey and call to the priesthood, and more insight from his past work in Wyoming. This is a touching, insightful, and must-listen episode. We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Welcome to Soil & Soul! Today's guest is Nick Hibma, who chats with Aaron about his experience and insight on farming, faith, and ministry, in regards to another part of the world that has been in the news a lot over the past number of years -- Ukraine. We hope you enjoy this episode and that you might find interest and reflection within.

Welcome to Soil & Soul! The Tuesday's Toolbox episode today touches on the widely utilized tool of weather forecasting. Host Aaron Lorch points out how often we faithfully look to the weather station or our phone's weather app for valuable info we rely and trust in. Meanwhile, how much trust we do put in our Lord, truly, and as routinely as we do with the weather? The storms may rage on around us, but we can rest at peace in our home in Him.

Welcome to Week 3 of Soil and Soul! Fr. Brian Feller begins with another episode, joined by Scott Sibbel, a co-host for the project, as they discuss the importance of our relationships as adults, especially with God. In order to effectively pass on the faith to our children, we need to be in tip top shape ourselves. Most people are good about maintenance on their car, but why do we sometimes neglect our soul? We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Thanks for joining for the end of week 2 of our Soil and Soul podcast, with another Friday Mailbag. We still didn't have any submitted questions or topics, so Aaron and Scott rolled with another random one off the cuff. We hope their discussion on a spirit of adoption and being open might bless you in some way, allowing for some reflection of your own. We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Thanks for joining for another episode of Faithful Farming, where we look to connect testimonies and reflections on rural life and agriculture, along with our strongest roots, in faith. Aaron Lorch hosts this one solo as he shares from his own past and present, offering his musings from the cab. Remember to find JOY in all of God's creation around you. We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Thank you for joining us for another episode of Wednesday World Concerns, as part of week two on this Soil and Soul podcast. Today is hosted by Scott Sibbel, who is joined by his son, Anthony, as a special guest. Anthony is currently a Catholic seminarian for the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa and offers some great insight from his experiences. We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Thank you got joining us for our 2nd week of Soil & Soul and another episode of Tuesday's Toolbox. Today is led by Scott Sibbel and he touches on the metaphorical parallels in our faith lives, with a farm tool as useful, versatile, and necessary as our pliers. We hope you enjoy his ponderings and find time to reflect yourself. We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Welcome to Week 2 of Soil & Soul! Fr. Brian Feller kicks us off with Passing on Faith Thru Farming, joined by Nathan Stein, a farmer and drone operator. They discuss the importance of sharing our Christian faith with our kids, even in the little moments, and while working together or experiencing farm life together. We hope that this offering might bless you in some way and allow you time to reflect on your own personal faith and relationships. Stay tuned for our other Soil and Soul shows throughout the week, during this planting season. If you'd like to find out more about what we offer at Catholic Passage, check us out at CatholicPassage.com.

Welcome to the first episode of our weekly Friday Q&A session, as part of our seasonal Soil and Soul daily podcast project. We hope you will join us at the end of every week during this planting season, as a couple farmer hosts answer questions or discuss topics, sent in by listeners like you. It's a mailbag type podcast show, so make sure to email or message in your topics or questions, pertaining to your Christian faith, farming, parenting, or other, and we'll do our best discuss and share our takes.