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Episode 37- Reformation Day Ironies

10/29/2018

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This Wednesday, for most of us, is Halloween. But a lot of Christians are disturbed by the way that Halloween seems to celebrate evil, and many Protestants choose to celebrate Reformation Day instead. While we respect the desire to have fun without celebrating evil, we find Reformation Day to be unwittingly hilarious.  Here’s why.
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Topics we discussed:
  • The ironies of celebrating Reformation Day
  • John Calvin Jack O'Lanterns
  • The legend of Martin Luther nailing the 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg
  • Indulgence selling and the definition of reformation
  • Why Reformation Day is far more pagan than Halloween 
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Resources we mentioned:​
  • "Reformation Day Ironies"​ on Shameless Popery
  • John Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion"
  • ​John MacArthur's claim that Christmas is a mesh of Christianity and paganism 
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Episode 36 - Evangelizing the Spiritually Indifferent

10/22/2018

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Sharing the faith used to make people mad because it challenged their own beliefs. But today, it makes a lot of people yawn - because they don't have strong beliefs about anything. Just how do you evangelize the indifferent?
Show Notes
Topics we discussed:
  • Radical self-sufficiency and technology today
  • The three ways religious indifferentism 
  • Evangelizing those who are claim to be spiritual, not religious 
  • What sets Catholicism apart from other religions 
  • Religious indifferentism
  • The importance of the sacraments in the Catholic Church
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Resources we mentioned:​
  • "Just Whatever: How to Help the Spiritually Indifferent find Beliefs that Really Matter" by Matt Nelson
  • Bishop Barron's reflection on Jean Twenge's "I-Gen"​
  • "Something Other Than God" by Jennifer Fulwiler
  • "Fides et Ratio" by Saint Pope John Paul the Great ​​​
  • "The Case for Jesus" by Brant Pitre
  • "The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus" by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona 
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Episode 35 - Sometimes, God Wrecks Your Romance

10/15/2018

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Amanda Vernon and Father Matt Fase, CSC, share a story together. But it's far from being the sappy, predictable romantic story that you'd think. Instead, it's a beautiful story of the human desire for authentic friendship and true happiness. 
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Topics we discussed:
  • The importance of God's timing in discernment
  • The human desire for true happiness
  • Navigating vocational discernment
  • Genuine love, intimacy, and the gift of others
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Resources we mentioned:​
  • When God Wrecks Your Romance
  • Theology of the Body
  • Saint Pope John Paul II Proves that Men and Women Can be Friends

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Episode 34 - Redeeming Our Vision from a Pornified Culture

10/8/2018

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What if the way we view the body — our own and those of the persons around us — could change? What if the root of our attraction to pornography could be redeemed at its core — in our hearts? What if we could rediscover the beauty and truth of our bodies and sexuality in such a way that the pornified vision loses its appeal?
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Topics we discussed:
  • What pornography is and why it's the opposite of the Catholic understanding of beauty and intimacy
  • How pornography affects each and every one of our lives
  • Saint Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body
  • How to become inoculated against pornography 
  • The role of beauty and sacred art in redeeming our vision of the human body 
  • How to have conversations with your children about pornography 
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Resources we mentioned:​
  •  What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says about pornography
  • "Redeemed Vision: Setting the Blind Free from the Pornified Culture" by Steve Pokorny 
  • Freedom Coaching
  • Saint Pope John Paul the Great's Theology of the Body
  • "Theology of the Body for Beginners" by Christopher West 
  • "Holy Sex" by Dr. Greg Popcak
  • "Good Pictures Bad Pictures: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds" 

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