St. Edward's University

Minot State is also competing from the NSIC.

St. Edwards University.

And then the University of Tampa.

So kind of all over the nation overall.

Mm-hmm.

And I served on a board at St. Edward's University for the Holy Cross Institute.

Later, I was invited by the president at the Holy Cross Institute to join them and be a part of the teaching faculty in their doctoral program and to be the executive, uh, director of the Holy Cross Institute.

And then it was a sh- few short years after that that, um, Holy Cross College called, and, um, and I started thinking about those early days of what Morgan said.

Today, I'm joined by Dr. Adam McCormick.

Adam is a professor of social work at St. Edwards University, and his work focuses on boyhood, trauma, masculinity, foster care, and resilience.

He's the author of Healing the Helping Professional's Childhood Trauma Wounds: The Unfinished Business of Childhood, and is currently writing a book called The Cost of Boyhood: Trauma, Masculinity, and a Return to the Self.

In this conversation, Adam and I explore what can happen to boys' emotional worlds as they grow up, and why behaviors that express anger or shutting down or pushing people away may tell us far less about what a boy's actually feeling than we realize.

In 2026, Adam received the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, widely regarded as the highest honor for teaching excellence in the state of Texas.

He's also a candidate for the 2028 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, one of the most prestigious teaching awards in higher education in the United States, and was a recipient of St. Edward's University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2025.

He's also the author of Healing the Helping Professional, The Unfinished Business of Childhood, a book exploring childhood trauma, emotional survival adaptations, burnout, authenticity, and the journey back to self.

He's also currently completing The Cost of Becoming a Boy, a forthcoming book examining the emotional, developmental, and cultural experiences that shape boys and men.

Knocking out the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in 1905, where in 1888, the Jesuits took over the responsibilities of the parish.

Clayton was also pinned to the main building at St. Edward's University, located in Austin, Texas, where we are told that the first one was completed in 1888, the same exact year that the Jesuits took over the other Clayton church.

And they tell us that the one we see today is the second one.

When they rebuilt it, no problem at all, in 1903 after a fire.

So there's that stigma and shame and judgment when at the end of the day, it could be anybody.

You know, there was a student at St. Ed's who passed away about two weeks ago from a pill that he got online.

You know, so before we start making judgment, we have to realize that This supply is in there, out there, and it's easy to get to now with the internet and social media, things that were not available before I went to prison.

I mean, the things that I hear, I'm just like, dang, I would be dead if I were still using today.

Georgetown? Mm-hmm.

When I was at St. Edward's, they were a conference rival of ours.

I think they still are.

Texas

Home of Vern Lundquist, by the way, the great announcer.

TLC, also Incarnate Word, and everybody's bounced around now.

St. Mary's was our big rival when I was at St. Ed's.

So there you go.