Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSnapshot: Is Christianity Impractical or Impossible? (#163)
Episode 163
If you’re not crazy for being a Christian, can you realistically pull it off? Because living out your faith, living the Christian life, in the face o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Snapshot: Is Christianity Crazy? (#162)
Episode 162
How do all the agnostics, atheists, secularists, nihilists, and neopagans that make up our 21st-century culture view the Christian religion? Cultural…
2 years, 5 months ago
Searching for a Christmas Playlist (#161)
Episode 161
Every year, Greg tries to build a new Christmas playlist on his phone, and every year, he realizes how few decent Christmas carols there are. Why not…
2 years, 5 months ago
Good Popes, Bad Popes, Mostly Average Popes (#160)
Episode 160
A listener named John asks, "What about bad popes who lived immoral lives, etc? How can they lead the Church?" As Greg explains, there have been good…
2 years, 6 months ago
Snapshot: Discover Advent (#159)
Episode 159
We have begun Advent, the liturgical season of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. Advent means "coming" or "arriving," but what, exactly, is c…
2 years, 6 months ago
Snapshot: Stuff Jesus Never Said (#158)
Episode 158
Those who want to change the Church's teaching on homosexuality and same-sex marriage like to argue from Jesus' silence on the issue: "If Jesus didn'…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Crusades (#157)
Episode 157
Ed asks about the Crusades: did the Catholic Church really launch brutal wars of colonization, invading Muslim ancestral lands with hordes of Catholi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Snapshot: Christ the King (#156)
Episode 156
In the last snapshot ("The End of Ordinary Time"), Greg pointed out that the Catholic Church has a major feast to celebrate the end of ordinary time …
2 years, 6 months ago
Snapshot: The End of Ordinary Time (#155)
Episode 155
Ordinary Time is coming to an end, very soon. If that sounds alarming and weird to you, then listen to this short explanation of the Catholic concept…
2 years, 6 months ago
Charity and Social Justice (#154)
Episode 154
Ed the Protestant asks about the Catholic Church's commitment to charity and the poor. Greg explains where that comes from and the related but very d…
2 years, 6 months ago