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Meet Father Rivers

Nov 1, 2025

Eric and Emily reconvene the podcast after a break and share some life updates: for Eric, joining the Society of St. Joseph and beginning life as a seminarian; for Emily, campus ministry, liturgical music and teaching at Ohio Dominican University. They welcome Deacon Royce Winters of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati (and...


May 23, 2025

Liturgeeks, unite! Eric and Emily are joined by Nick Wagner and Diana Macalintal, new friends from the November 2024 Symposium at University of Dayton, to geek out about good liturgy. The heart of the conversation dwells on Rivers’ concept of effective worship and how liturgists in various cultural contexts can—and...


Feb 28, 2025

Eric and Emily interview author and speaker Daryl Grigsby, who with Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns, presented at last November’s Seeking for a City Symposium at the University of Dayton. Daryl’s new book, Catholics for the Common Good: An Eternal Offering, highlights the lives of thirty-six Catholics whose lives...


Jan 28, 2025

Emily and Eric interview Bianca C. Farmer, an archivist-in-training at the Catholic University of America. As part of her coursework for her Master’s in Library and Information Science, Bianca completed a 50-hour practicum in CUA’s Special Collections, and she spent these hours with Father Rivers! She...


Dec 24, 2024

Enjoy a unique and innovative Christmas Eve service created by Fr. Rivers--and Emily and Eric's commentary on the historic recording--in this replay episode of Meet Father Rivers. Merry Christmas! (No show notes.)