Episodes

  • Finding Joy with Guests: Karen Saliba and Kim Sharp
    Jul 22 2025

    Fr. Nathan is accompanied by therapist and prayer partners Karen Saliba and Kim Sharp as they discuss practical steps for finding joy in difficult times.

    Karen Saliba, PsyD, MFT, is a psychoanalyst, working with couples and individuals who want to live in healthy harmony with one another, their families, and their communities. She believes that we can be healed from our Earthly life hurts by engaging in dynamic and compassionate relationships.

    As a prayer partner with Father Nathan, she has learned so much about love, spirituality and how we are never alone. Her husband and two daughters support her endeavors to inspire hope for those in this life and afterwards. Her relationship to athletics and pickleball is also very close to her mind, body, and soul. https://www.karensalibatherapy.com

    Kim Sharp, LMFT, DTM, is a psychotherapist working in San Pedro, California. She loves helping people connect with the deepest part of themselves, which can promote joy, peace, and relief in their lives. Functioning from a mind-body-spirit perspective, she has witnessed how when we do our own inner work, it can lead to a deeply meaningful and fun life!

    Working as a prayer partner with Father Nathan, Kimberly is continually reminded of how benevolent and loving the “other side” is, and has been amazed at the creative ingenuity that is employed by heavenly helpers to support souls on their journey in the afterlife.

    When Kim isn’t working with clients or assisting Father Nathan, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, working out, dancing, sailing, and singing. She also enjoys volunteering in various capacities with Toastmasters International and in her home parish of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in San Pedro, California. You can find more about her work at https://www.kimberlysharpmft.com.

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    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

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    59 mins
  • Spiritual Practice: Ellen, St. Cecilia, and Ellen’s Mom
    Jul 15 2025

    Fr. Nathan discusses the spiritual practice arising from Ellen, St. Cecilia, and Ellen’s Mom. Ellen's story is told in greater detail in Afterlife, Interrupted Book Three: Please Let Me Explain, available on Amazon https://a.co/d/4ycig0R

    Warning: This episode contains content related to sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised

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    ​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.:
    http://www.nathan-castle.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastle
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=en
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOP

    Listen to the podcast: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5

    Purchase books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4

    Donate: https://nathan-castle.com/donate

    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

    #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakenings. #nde, #ste, #ide

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    43 mins
  • Compassionate Response: Ellen, St. Cecilia, and Ellen’s Mom
    Jul 8 2025

    Fr. Nathan discusses the compassionate response to Ellen, St. Cecilia, and Ellen’s Mom with prayer partner Karen Saliba. Ellen's story is told in greater detail in Afterlife, Interrupted Book Three: Please Let Me Explain, available on Amazon https://a.co/d/4ycig0R

    Warning: This episode contains content related to sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised

    Karen Saliba, PsyD, MFT, is a psychoanalyst, working with couples and individuals who want to live in healthy harmony with one another, their families, and their communities. She believes that we can be healed from our Earthly life hurts by engaging in dynamic and compassionate relationships.

    As a prayer partner with Father Nathan, she has learned so much about love, spirituality, and how we are never alone. Her husband and two daughters support her endeavors to inspire hope for those in this life and afterwards. Her relationship to athletics and pickleball is also very close to her mind, body, and soul.

    Click this link and let us know what you love about The Joyful Friar Podcast!

    Support the show

    ​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.:
    http://www.nathan-castle.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastle
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=en
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOP

    Listen to the podcast: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5

    Purchase books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4

    Donate: https://nathan-castle.com/donate

    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

    #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakenings. #nde, #ste, #ide

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    42 mins
  • Afterlife, Interrupted: Ellen, St. Cecilia, and Ellen’s Mom
    Jul 1 2025

    Fr. Nathan introduces us to Ellen, St. Cecilia, and Ellen’s Mom. Told in greater detail in Afterlife, Interrupted Book Three: Please Let Me Explain, available on Amazon https://a.co/d/4ycig0R

    Warning: This episode contains content related to sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised

    Click this link and let us know what you love about The Joyful Friar Podcast!

    Support the show

    ​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.:
    http://www.nathan-castle.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastle
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=en
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOP

    Listen to the podcast: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5

    Purchase books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4

    Donate: https://nathan-castle.com/donate

    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

    #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakenings. #nde, #ste, #ide

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    23 mins
  • Finding Joy with Guest: David Lorimer
    Jun 24 2025

    Fr. Nathan speaks with David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA, a visionary polymath, spiritual activist, and poet.

    David who is Founder of Character Education Scotland, Global Ambassador of the Scientific and Medical Network (www.scientificandmedical.net) and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986. He was the instigator of the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 (www.beyondthebrain.org) and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences (www.mysticsandscientists.org) every year since the late 1980s.


    David is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org)
    which seeks the widen science beyond a materialistic world view. He hosts a
    podcast, Imaginal Inspirations, with key thinkers in consciousness studies. He
    is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest, a Member of the Evolutionary
    Leaders Circle.

    David, originally a merchant banker, then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Radical Prince on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales (now King Charles III). His most recent publications are his essays, A Quest for Wisdom (2021), his collection of poems Better Light a Candle (2022),
    Spiritual Awakenings (2022, edited with Marjorie Woollacott)

    David is the originator of the Inspiring Purpose Values Poster Programmes,
    which has reached over 350,000 young people all over the world, and has
    edited fifteen magazines and five books in this connection. He was a Senior
    Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre in the University of Birmingham from
    2015-2018 and in 2022 he was appointed an Ambassador of Character
    Education. See www.inspiringpurpose.org.uk

    Click this link and let us know what you love about The Joyful Friar Podcast!

    Support the show

    ​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.:
    http://www.nathan-castle.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastle
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=en
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOP

    Listen to the podcast: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5

    Purchase books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4

    Donate: https://nathan-castle.com/donate

    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

    #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakenings. #nde, #ste, #ide

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    35 mins
  • Spiritual Response to Saba, Angel Salaam, and a Ramadan Celebration
    Jun 17 2025

    Fr. Nathan shares the spiritual response to Saba, Angel Salaam, and a Ramadan Celebration. This story is new and not included in the Afterlife, Interrupted books. You are hearing it for the first time on the podcast.

    Click this link and let us know what you love about The Joyful Friar Podcast!

    Support the show

    ​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.:
    http://www.nathan-castle.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastle
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=en
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOP

    Listen to the podcast: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5

    Purchase books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4

    Donate: https://nathan-castle.com/donate

    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

    #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakenings. #nde, #ste, #ide

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    30 mins
  • Compassionate Response: Saba, Angel Salaam, and a Ramadan Celebration
    Jun 10 2025

    Fr. Nathan shares the compassionate response to Saba, Angel Salaam, and a Ramadan Celebration. This story is new and not included in the Afterlife, Interrupted books. You are hearing it for the first time on the podcast.

    Click this link and let us know what you love about The Joyful Friar Podcast!

    Support the show

    ​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.:
    http://www.nathan-castle.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastle
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=en
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOP

    Listen to the podcast: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5

    Purchase books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4

    Donate: https://nathan-castle.com/donate

    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

    #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakenings. #nde, #ste, #ide

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    35 mins
  • Afterlife, Interrupted: Saba, Angel Salaam, and a Ramadan Celebration
    Jun 3 2025

    Fr. Nathan introduces us to Saba, Angel Salaam, and a Ramadan Celebration. This story is new and not included in the Afterlife, Interrupted books. You are hearing it for the first time on the podcast.


    Click this link and let us know what you love about The Joyful Friar Podcast!

    Support the show

    ​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.:
    http://www.nathan-castle.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastle
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=en
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOP

    Listen to the podcast: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5

    Purchase books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4

    Donate: https://nathan-castle.com/donate

    My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast, please donate. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province.

    #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakenings. #nde, #ste, #ide

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    24 mins