The Lonergan Institute Podcast
A monthly podcast produced by the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University. We talk to people who engage Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy, theology, and other ideas to help us live with greater attentiveness, intelligence, rationality, and responsibility.
Episodes

Thursday Oct 09, 2025
Thursday Oct 09, 2025
In this episode of the Lonergan Institute Podcast, we are joined by Lyle Enright. Lyle is an author, editor, and scholar who works in the design studio at Street Psalms, "a global network committed to developing incarnational leaders in vulnerable urban communities." Our wide ranging discussion covers post-modern philosopher, theological questions explored in Russian literature, the kinds of self-presence people bring to social media, and how Lonergan's thought might help people make better art, but especially to tell better stories.
A few resources Lyle mentioned:
- Recordings of Patrick Byrne's "Insight & Beyond" course from the BC Lonergan Institute. (The eagle-eyed may be able to find a young Jonathan Heaps in these videos)
- Joseph Flanagan, S.J.'s Quest for Self-Knowledge: an Essay in Lonergan's Philosophy
- The Realms of Desire: an Introduction to the Thought of Bernard Lonergan by the Fellows of the Woodstock Theological Center
- Hearts on Fire: Praying with the Jesuits
- René Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
The Lonergan Institute Podcast is a production of Seton Hall's Bernard J. Lonergan Institute.
Intro and outro music is "Track 14," from Ghosts II, by Nine Inch Nails, used under a Creative Commons License.

Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
In our inaugural episode of The Lonergan Institute Podcast, Director Jonathan Heaps speaks with Taylor Black, Director of AI & Venture Ecosystems in the Office of the CTO at Microsoft. Taylor studied Lonergan with (former Seton Hall Toth-Lonergan Professor) Michael Stebbins at Gonzaga University and then went to Boston College for an M.A. in Philosophy to learn more. He also earned a J.D. from Boston College Law, but his tech side-hustles led him, little by little, back to Seattle, WA and into the offices at Microsoft. Taylor shares how his study of Lonergan and his wide-ranging interests as a young person prepared him to wear many exciting hats working for one of the world's tech giants.
The Lonergan Institute Podcast is a production of Seton Hall's Bernard J. Lonergan Institute.
Intro and outro music is "Track 14," from Ghosts II, by Nine Inch Nails, used under a Creative Commons License.







