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VIDEOS ON LEISURE
The Virtue of Leisure (ENDOW Interview)
On this episode of the Endow Podcast, Laura Zambrana, Director of Content, interviews Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, on the topic of leisure in the life of the Christian.
Laura Zambrana, MDiv, is the Director of Content for Endow. As Director of Content, Laura brings our new studies to life through editing and overseeing the design and printing process. Laura also manages our website content. She has been an Endow host since 2010 and has led several Endow groups in Pasadena and Hollywood, CA. Laura graduated from Thomas Aquinas College and studied Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
The Endow Podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
Laura Zambrana, MDiv, is the Director of Content for Endow. As Director of Content, Laura brings our new studies to life through editing and overseeing the design and printing process. Laura also manages our website content. She has been an Endow host since 2010 and has led several Endow groups in Pasadena and Hollywood, CA. Laura graduated from Thomas Aquinas College and studied Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
The Endow Podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
The Vice of Sloth (ENDOW Interview)
On this episode of the Endow Podcast, Laura Zambrana, Director of Content, interviews Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, on the deadly vice contrary to leisure which is acedia (sloth). This conversation is a continuation of last week's interview.
Laura Zambrana, MDiv, is the Director of Content for Endow. As Director of Content, Laura brings our new studies to life through editing and overseeing the design and printing process. Laura also manages our website content. She has been an Endow host since 2010 and has led several Endow groups in Pasadena and Hollywood, CA. Laura graduated from Thomas Aquinas College and studied Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
The Endow Podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
Laura Zambrana, MDiv, is the Director of Content for Endow. As Director of Content, Laura brings our new studies to life through editing and overseeing the design and printing process. Laura also manages our website content. She has been an Endow host since 2010 and has led several Endow groups in Pasadena and Hollywood, CA. Laura graduated from Thomas Aquinas College and studied Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
The Endow Podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
The Virtue of Leisure (CALive Interview)
In this live-streamed recording, Simone Rizkallah is interviewed on Catholic Answers Live about the virtue of leisure.
Interview starts at 1:02:00.
Interview starts at 1:02:00.
Leisure and Living Your Best Life (Elevate Ordinary Interview)
What is LEISURE and why are westerners so bad at it? Josef Pieper's book "Leisure the Basis of Culture" gives us insight into how recreation and relaxation allows us to LOVE our LIVES. Special guest Simone Rizkallah of Endow and the Cultural Gypsy joins JonMarc and Teresa on the Elevate Ordinary Podcast to talk about how LEISURE can help you live your BEST LIFE!
Episode 45
SHOW HOSTS: JonMarc & Teresa Grodi
Show Notes:
Episode 45
SHOW HOSTS: JonMarc & Teresa Grodi
Show Notes:
What is the Christian's Role in a Distracted Age? (Philos Project Interview)
What is the role of the church, individual Christians, and the life of the spirit in an age of distraction? The Philos Project's Charles Malik Institute discussed with special guest Simone Rizkallah.
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The Charles Malik Institute explores the big questions at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics through the legacy of Charles Malik.
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The Charles Malik Institute explores the big questions at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics through the legacy of Charles Malik.
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Two Notions of Leisure
The Institute for Human Ecology invites you to our 2024 Saint Scholastica event, “Two Notions of Leisure: Resting in the Lord vs. Restless Consumption.” In a world where our attention is a highly marketable commodity, falling into a cycle of restless consumption can feel impossible to avoid. As Christians, developing a toolbox of virtue is the most crucial path to enjoying true leisure.
Join Dr. Paul Radich and Ms. Simone Rizkallah, experts in the concept of leisure as both a social and spiritual phenomenon, as they share their knowledge and tools for growing in this essential virtue.
About the speakers:
Dr. Paul Radich: Paul Radich is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business. His areas of focus include virtue ethics, political economy, consumer behavior, education, and the role of meaning in fostering human flourishing. He received his doctorate from Catholic University, and two undergraduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Radich was also recently named to the Ethics Committee of the American Marketing Association.
Ms. Simone Rizkallah: Simone Rizkallah is Special Advisor to the President of The Philos Project. As a first-generation American of Egyptian-Armenian descent, Ms. Rizkallah has a particular interest in matters of religious freedom, culture, and the Eastern roots of the Faith. Her graduate degree is in Theological Studies from Christendom College. Her undergraduate studies and professional background include marketing communications, media, radio, and theatre. Ms. Rizkallah is a frequent guest on Catholic Answers Live and a faculty member of the Avila Institute.
Join Dr. Paul Radich and Ms. Simone Rizkallah, experts in the concept of leisure as both a social and spiritual phenomenon, as they share their knowledge and tools for growing in this essential virtue.
About the speakers:
Dr. Paul Radich: Paul Radich is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business. His areas of focus include virtue ethics, political economy, consumer behavior, education, and the role of meaning in fostering human flourishing. He received his doctorate from Catholic University, and two undergraduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Radich was also recently named to the Ethics Committee of the American Marketing Association.
Ms. Simone Rizkallah: Simone Rizkallah is Special Advisor to the President of The Philos Project. As a first-generation American of Egyptian-Armenian descent, Ms. Rizkallah has a particular interest in matters of religious freedom, culture, and the Eastern roots of the Faith. Her graduate degree is in Theological Studies from Christendom College. Her undergraduate studies and professional background include marketing communications, media, radio, and theatre. Ms. Rizkallah is a frequent guest on Catholic Answers Live and a faculty member of the Avila Institute.
Community, Sharing the Interior Life, & the Eucharist
This episode of Physically Spiritual is a conversation with Simone Rizkallah. We discuss her journey of faith, maturing in community, sharing the interior life, and the Eucharist.
Episode 116
Show Host: Andrew Reinhart
Episode 116
Show Host: Andrew Reinhart
VIDEOS ON ARMENIA
Armenia
In this live-streamed recording, Simone Rizkallah is interviewed on Catholic Answers Live about Armenia.
Interview takes place from 00:29:00-00:55:00.
Interview takes place from 00:29:00-00:55:00.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Blockade
In this EWTN News In Depth interview, Simone Rizkallah, Special Advisor to the Philos Project, Armenia shares her insights on a blockade in a mountain region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.
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Hosted by Montse Alvarado, EWTN News In Depth welcomes guests in a discussion of current events in the Church, politics, and culture, all through the lens of the Catholic faith.
This show is about finding out who we are as people and as Catholics, and how we can confidently live our faith in the world. It is produced by EWTN News: https://www.ewtnnews.com
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Hosted by Montse Alvarado, EWTN News In Depth welcomes guests in a discussion of current events in the Church, politics, and culture, all through the lens of the Catholic faith.
This show is about finding out who we are as people and as Catholics, and how we can confidently live our faith in the world. It is produced by EWTN News: https://www.ewtnnews.com
The Forgotten Christian Genocide (That's Still Happening)
In this episode of The Counsel of Trent podcast, Trent sits down with Armenian Christian Simone Rizkallah to discuss the past and current Genocide of Armenian Christians and what we can do to help stop this tragedy.
The Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail
Join Dan and Stephanie Burke on Divine Intimacy Radio as they talk with Simone Rizkallah and Dr. Joseph Hollcraft about the Armenian Christian Persecution and the importance of prayer, spiritual warfare, and intercession in combating evil and promoting change.
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Armenian Christians
Simone Rizkallah, special advisor on Armenia to the president of The Philos Project discusses the current state of the blockade by Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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The World Over with Raymond Arroyo airs on EWTN Thursdays at 8pm ET. It re-airs on Fridays at 1am & 9:30am ET, and Mondays at 10pm ET.
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Raymond Arroyo is known for his penetrating interviews of leading news figures. His Conversations on The World Over have included Presidents Bush and Trump, Pope Benedict XVI, Mother Theresa, Mel Gibson, famed tenor Placido Domingo and comic legend, Jerry Lewis. The show is produced by EWTN News: https://www.ewtnnews.com
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The World Over with Raymond Arroyo airs on EWTN Thursdays at 8pm ET. It re-airs on Fridays at 1am & 9:30am ET, and Mondays at 10pm ET.
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Raymond Arroyo is known for his penetrating interviews of leading news figures. His Conversations on The World Over have included Presidents Bush and Trump, Pope Benedict XVI, Mother Theresa, Mel Gibson, famed tenor Placido Domingo and comic legend, Jerry Lewis. The show is produced by EWTN News: https://www.ewtnnews.com
Prayer Vigil Against Armenian Christian Persecution
Join Dan and Stephanie Burke as they pray with Simone Rizkallah, Christopher Carstens, Gia Chacón, and Most Reverend Mikaël Antoine Mouradian as they pray against the Armenian Christian Persecution.
Armenia and Christian Persecution
On this episode of The Lila Rose Podcast, Lila Rose sits down with Simone Rizkallah, Theologian and Speaker, to talk about the Christian persecution that is happening in the world, with a special focus on a genocide happening to Armenians as we speak.
Learn more here:
Learn more here:
The Secret Christian Genocide: What is Going On In Armenia?
On September 19th, 120,000 Armenian Christians were attacked by Azerbaijan after almost a year of starvation at the hands of a suffocating blockade. After fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, their lives are in complete chaos.
In this episode of LOOPcast by Catholic Vote, Tom Pogasic sits down with Armenian Christian Simone Rizkallah to hear more about the Christian persecution happening right under our noses.
In this episode of LOOPcast by Catholic Vote, Tom Pogasic sits down with Armenian Christian Simone Rizkallah to hear more about the Christian persecution happening right under our noses.
The Armenian Genocide: Then and Now
This episode of the According to Bridget podcast will be more than you bargained for. A history, foreign policy, Eastern Catholicism and Armenia lesson all wrapped up into one!
Tune in for this interview with Simone Rizkallah:
Tune in for this interview with Simone Rizkallah:
Armenia Today, America Tomorrow
On January 3, 2024 Simone Rizkallah and Dan Harre of The Philos Project attended the SEEK24 Conference in St. Louis, where 20,000 Catholic young adults gather every year. Simone and Dan joined a panel titled, "Armenia Today, America Tomorrow," where they discussed the persecution of the Armenian Church and Christians across the world. Approximately 500 people attended the panel and dozens of audience members were eager to ask questions following the event!
Click the link below to listen to the panel discussion:
Click the link below to listen to the panel discussion:
Israel and Armenia: the Near East's last Judeo-Christian nations
On the 109th year commemorating the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, our experts discuss the relationship between Israel and Armenia, the Near East's only Judeo-Christian nations.
How can Christians and Jews stand united to save our civilizations?
How can Christians and Jews stand united to save our civilizations?
Biden Weighs In on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day | EWTN News Nightly
President Joe Biden is among those weighing in on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. In a statement, the White House said in part, "The campaign of cruelty began on April 24, 1915, when Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian intellectuals and community leaders... In the days, months, and years that followed, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred or marched to their deaths." Pope Francis twice called the operation against the Armenians a "genocide", including during his 2016 visit to one of the earliest Christian nations. Turkey accused the Holy Father of a "crusades-like mentality." President Recep Erdogan says the US' use of the term genocide is a risk to bilateral relations. Deputy Director of Education at the Philos Project and a first generation Egyptian-Armenian, Simone Rizkallah, joins to remind us about the genocide that began on this date in 1915 and how it continues to impact Christians from Armenia. President Biden has referred to the Armenian genocide and Pope Francis has used the phrase several times. Rizkallah explains what other world leaders have said. She discusses how life is for Christians in Armenia. She fills us in on any final thoughts.
VIDEOS ON WOMEN
What Feminism Gets Wrong
While the world preaches empowerment for all women, the women it celebrates always seem to fit a certain mold. What does feminism get wrong? And what’s the best approach to understanding femininity? Find out from Simone Rizkallah in this new EDIFY video.
Does the Church Oppress Women?
Recently, Pope Francis reiterated to the editors of Jesuit journal America that there was no possibility of the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood. The Holy Father’s clear theological explanation, however, provoked one New York polemicist to accuse the pope of “mansplaining.” Since the sexual revolution, especially, a not uncommon objection from voices within and without the Catholic Church holds that the 2000-year-old institution oppresses women. Is this concern a legitimate one or one rooted in misunderstandings in anthropology? After all, Pope St. John Paul II, apologized in his 1995 Letter to Women for occasions “when members of the church have reflected more the attitudes of the culture than the kind of culture that Christianity is supposed to generate in the world.” Using the Letter to Women as a point of departure, theologian Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth at ENDOW (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women), will take up this vexed question and help us understand whether the Church is the greatest oppressor, or greatest liberator, of women in history.
The Church Oppresses Women DEBUNKED
Modern secular people have forgotten the role of the Catholic Church in lifting humanity out of ignorance, violence, poverty, and disease. Perhaps most forgotten, is the Catholic contribution to an embrace of the dignity of women. Simone Rizkallah, director of program growth at Endow (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women), explains.
The Feminine Genius
Simone Rizkallah speaks on the feminine genius at Love & Responsibility Los Angeles.
Diversity, Gender, and the Genius of Women
Welcome to Episode 99 of the Being Human Podcast: Diversity, Gender, and the Genius of Women, w/ Simone Rizkallah.
This week, Dr. Greg Bottaro welcomes Simone Rizkallah to the show for a powerful conversation focused around femininity, the genius of women, complementarity between the sexes, and cultural differences!
The full episode can be watched here:
This week, Dr. Greg Bottaro welcomes Simone Rizkallah to the show for a powerful conversation focused around femininity, the genius of women, complementarity between the sexes, and cultural differences!
The full episode can be watched here:
The Dignity of Women
In this live-streamed recording, Simone Rizkallah is interviewed on Catholic Answers Live about the dignity of women.
Interview starts at 1:01:45.
Interview starts at 1:01:45.
The Feminine Genius
In this live-streamed recording, Simone Rizkallah is interviewed on Catholic Answers Live about the feminine genius.
International Women's Day 2024
Together Thursdays is a recurring virtual gathering organized by the Philos Black network, aiming to foster community and meaningful dialogue. This month’s session coincides with International Women's Day 2024, focusing on the theme of 'Inspire Inclusion'. The event will feature conversations on fostering a more inclusive world for women across various sectors.
One Call, Many Vocations
Moderator Kathryn Whitaker discusses spiritual motherhood with Sarah Ku, Simone Rizkallah, and Sr. Caridad