Soul Food Priest
This is the podcast where culinary and Christianity collide. Each week Fr. Ben Bradshaw will serve up homilies, whip up Teaching Tapas, answer your burning questions, and pass along recipes.
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Episodes
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
In this episode, Fr. Ben introduces Silvia and Khira to Dubai chocolate as they discuss some very interesting interesting questions. What's the deal with angels & demons? Can they read our thoughts? What about ghosts?
Got a question you'd like to ask Fr. Ben? You can submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast through Facebook, or you could email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com. The questions can be on faith or food! You can also follow us on Facebook and YouTube at Soul Food Priest. Thanks for listening!
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Want to know how to attain happiness? Listen to Fr. Ben's homily to find out.
Got a question you'd like to ask Fr. Ben? You can submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast through Facebook, or you could email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com. The questions can be on faith or food! You can also follow us on Facebook and YouTube at Soul Food Priest. Thanks for listening!
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
(You'll enjoy watching this episode on YouTube @SoulFoodPriest.)
Ever wanted to know how to properly dice an onion, tomato, or bell pepper? Now's your chance! Fr. Ben teaches us how to do this as well as provide other safety tips. This is an episode Khira has been looking forward to!
Thank you for listening. We'd love to hear from you! You can email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com or at Soul Food Priest Facebook page to submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast. You can also follow us on YouTube!
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
What is indifference? Indifference is not I don't care, but I care so much that I'm not going take control. Listen how Fr. Ben explains how we surrender and become indifferent in life with God and others.
Thank you for listening. We'd love to hear from you! You can email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com or at Soul Food Priest Facebook page to submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast. You can also follow us on YouTube @SoulFoodPriest!
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
This season of Soul Food Priest is focused on making the Catholic Faith and they kitchen more approachable and way less intimidating. In this episode, Fr. Ben, Silvia, and Khira discuss the top five must haves in the spiritual life and in the kitchen. You'll receive some great information for the soul and the body!
Thank you for listening. We'd love to hear from you! You can email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com or at Soul Food Priest Facebook page to submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast. You can also follow us on YouTube!
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
The way people will remember you in life is determined now and in your life decisions. Why do the small, everyday decisions in life matter? Take a listen to Fr. Ben's homily for the answer and several examples of people from the past.
Got a question you'd like to ask Fr. Ben? You can submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast through Facebook, or you could email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com. The questions can be on faith or food! You can also follow us on Facebook and YouTube at Soul Food Priest. Thanks for listening!
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Fr. Ben preaches on the virtue of courage. Everyday requires this virtue, especially when called to live the faith in this culture. How do you grow in it? How to do you change your perspective to appreciate the trials? Take a listen.
Got a question you'd like to ask Fr. Ben? You can submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast through Facebook, or you could email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com. The questions can be on faith or food! You can also follow us on Facebook and YouTube at Soul Food Priest. Thanks for listening!
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
This week on @SoulFoodPriest , Fr. Ben discusses a topic he's always found intriguing, Near-Death Experiences. After much reading, research, and personal interviews, Fr. Ben reveals some of the fascinating information he has received and how it can affect all people.
Thank you for listening. We'd love to hear from you! You can email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com or at Soul Food Priest Facebook page to submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast. You can also follow us on YouTube!
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Fr. Ben discusses the basis of faith and the necessary task of each person to know what he/she believes. Better understanding what you believe and learning more about the Faith will help deepen your relationship with Lord. Not only that, but people will notice. Take a listen!
Got a question you'd like to ask Fr. Ben? You can submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast through Facebook, or you could email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com. The questions can be on faith or food! You can also follow us on Facebook and YouTube at Soul Food Priest.
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Fr. Ben shares some of the topics that either cause family conflict or can keep it going. This list has been compiled by counseling people for almost twenty years. Take a listen to find out how to promote peace.
Got a question you'd like to ask Fr. Ben? You can submit questions and topic ideas for the podcast through Facebook, or you could email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.com. The questions can be on faith or food! You can also follow us on Facebook and YouTube at Soul Food Priest. Thanks for listening!
Every other week Fr. Ben will be answering your burning questions regarding food and faith. He is joined by two of his friends and staff members, Silvia Vega and Khira Rotty, who will be the moderators for the upcoming Q & A episodes.
If you have a question for Fr. Ben regarding food or faith email us at soulfoodpriestmemphis@gmail.org or the Soul Food Priest FB page at https://www.facebook.com/soulfoodpriest/.
Fr. Ben Bradshaw S.T.L.
Originally baptized Lutheran, Fr. Ben became Catholic at a young age and attended Catholic schools in Memphis growing up.
He always loved to cook and always considered being a professional chef or a Catholic priest, and so he became both.
At age 17, he began working for a French chef in Memphis and worked in kitchens until age 20. He then entered Johnson & Wales University culinary arts program in Charleston, SC. There he earned an Associate’s degree in Culinary Arts.
Fr. Ben then decided to travel to Russia where he lived and worked as a missionary with a religious community. It was there, in a small village, where he began to consider a calling to be a missionary priest. (Since then he has spent time visiting and working in Guatemala, Mexico, Africa, and Eastern and Western Europe.)
He returned home to Memphis and worked as a pastry chef for 5 years. This led him study in Paris, France at the L’Ecôle Lenôtre school of Pastry Arts, where he studied chocolate and pulled sugar artistry. He continued to consider more frequently the call to be a missionary priest.
After returning to the United States he attended The New England Culinary Institute in Vermont, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Food and Beverage Management. After graduating from NECI, Fr. Ben began considering an option he had not yet considered: Diocesan Priesthood. After much prayerful discernment, he entered the seminary at the age of 27 and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Memphis in June of 2006.
Fr. Ben earned a Masters of Arts and a Masters of Divinity in Sacred Theology. He wrote his Master's thesis on Pope Saint John Paul II's understanding of femininity and womanhood as it relates to writings of St. Edith Stein. He also holds a Licentiate degree in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. The focus on his dissertation was on the response of the Catholic Church to the issue of Same-Sex attraction. Since 2005, his continuing education studies have been at the Theology of the Body Institute in Philadelphia, P.A.
Fr. Ben is currently the pastor of St. Michael's parish in Memphis, TN.