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Evangelizing at the Dinner Table – The Inner Life – November 27, 2025 [ENCORE]

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Check out this awesome encore show to help you celebrate Thanksgiving from November 20, 2025

Fr. Dave Heneyjoins Patrick to discuss Evangelizing at the Dinner Table

  • How is Joy and excitement in the Faith important to evangelization?
  • (16:05) Julia – My daughter recently left the Catholic Church. I don’t want to fight at the table. How can we discuss this?

(21:56) Break 1

  • Brenda – I shared an Instagram link without explaining to my daughter-in-law. She was upset by this but we talked about this and it was very healing. I think social media is not a great way to Evangelize without proper context.
  • (28:11) what is the importance of the family meal?

(39:45) Break 2

  • (41:02) Steve – How do we deal with a same sex couple at Thanksgiving?
  • (44:01) Martha – We are having a group of 35 people. We always say grace. Is it ok for a Protestant to lead the prayer this year?
  • The origin of Thanksgiving.

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Patrick Conley

Patrick Conley

Patrick Conley was born, raised, and baptized in Wisconsin in a Protestant tradition. After meeting his wife, Kendra, through an Evangelical ministry at the University of Minnesota, they entered the Catholic Church in 2010. They listened to Relevant Radio, specifically The Inner Life, while preparing to enter the Church. Conley now holds a degree in theology from Oxford University and has served the Church in both academic theology and grassroots pastoral ministry. Conley teaches religion classes in a Catholic elementary school, serves as his parish Director of Religious Education, and is in formation for the permanent diaconate. He also hosts Practicing Catholic on Relevant Radio, exclusive to the Minneapolis area’s airwaves, and is a traveling presenter for the Catherine of Siena Institute apostolate. He lives in rural Wisconsin with his wife and their bulldogs, Georgie and Bingley.