Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Real Christmas Starts in a Womb: the Annunciation Over the Nativity (#416)
Episode 419
Ever wonder why Catholics make a big deal about the Annunciation on March 25, nine months before Christmas? In this episode, Greg dives into the hear…
3 months ago
Three Little Words That Split Christianity for 1,000 Years (#416)
Episode 422
Everyone knows Catholics and Eastern Orthodox both recite the Nicene Creed – except we don’t recite the exact same Creed. A thousand years ago the La…
3 months ago
Debunking the "Christmas is a Pagan Holiday" Meme (#415)
Episode 418
Every December the same claim pops up: Christmas is just repackaged Roman paganism—Saturnalia with a cross on top. But when you actually read what th…
3 months ago
The Pope vs. the Shriners: What’s the Real Problem with Freemasonry? (#414)
Episode 421
Everyone’s seen the Shriners in their tiny cars and funny hats, but why has the Catholic Church been warning against Freemasonry for almost 300 years…
3 months, 1 week ago
Fractal Equations and the Creator Who Signed His Work (#413)
Episode 416
A peer-reviewed paper claims a glowing, seated-Buddha fractal generated from the Mandelbrot set is hidden in the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo’s Sistine Ch…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Green Book (#412)
Episode 415
Greg and Ed explore the difference between worship that is objectively real and worship designed to produce feelings, using C.S. Lewis’s famous criti…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Divine Mysteries: The Immaculate Conception (#411)
Episode 414
December 8 is the Solemn Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and every year we hear the same two objections: “Pius IX invented the Immaculate Concept…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dvine Mysteries: Theotokos (#410)
Episode 410
What does it mean to call Mary the “Mother of God”? In this episode, Greg dives into the ancient debate at the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) over the t…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Further Up and Further In (#409)
Episode 413
What if the Christianity you’ve always known is only the shallow end of a vast, ancient ocean? In this candid, burrito-fueled conversation (yes, real…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Divine Mysteries: Logos, Christ, Pantoccrator, Returning King (#408)
Episode 412
In Part 3 of Divine Mysteries, Greg lets five explosive Scripture passages—John 1, Colossians 1, Philippians 2, Hebrews 1, and Revelation—paint the f…
3 months, 3 weeks ago