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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, guest Alex Jurado from “Voice of Reason” tackles thoughtful and challenging questions from callers exploring Catholic teaching and doctrine. Topics include the true meaning of the word anathema, biblical support for confession to a priest, and how to explain the seal of confession in difficult moral situations. Alex also addresses concerns about biblical contradictions, the authority of the Magisterium, and how to interpret Matthew 16:18 in Protestant-Catholic dialogue. Listeners ask about papal authority in light of the Pope Vigilius controversy, proper church etiquette for seekers, and what the Church means by salvation through “faith working through love.” Join The CA Live Club Newsletter: Click Here Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Questions Covered: 05:41 – What is the correct meaning of the term anathema, and how can misunderstandings about it be addressed in conversation? 11:55 – Where does the Bible support the practice of confessing sins to a priest? 17:10 – How can the Catholic teaching on the seal of confession be explained to those who find it troubling, especially in serious moral cases? 23:39 – In John 7:8–10, does Jesus contradict Himself? How should this passage be understood? 28:50 – How can someone considering Catholicism come to trust the authority of the Magisterium? 31:51 – How can Catholics respond when Protestants interpret Matthew 16:18 as referring only to the invisible Church? 35:54 – How does the controversy surrounding Pope Vigilius and the Three Chapters not contradict the doctrine of Papal Supremacy? 44:40 – For someone exploring Christianity, what is appropriate attire for attending Church, and when is it acceptable to enter a church to pray? 49:42 – What does the Catholic Church mean by salvation through “faith working through love,” especially for someone transitioning from Islam to Christianity?

In this episode of History 102, 'WhatIfAltHist' creator Rudyard Lynch and co-host Austin Padgett talk about France's metamorphosis from post-Roman fragmentation to unified nation-state, analyzing how Frankish conquests, feudal innovations, and religious conflicts shaped French cultural identity. They reveal the paradoxical consequences of centralization—cultural flourishing alongside structural weaknesses that would ultimately determine France's historical trajectory. --

Call (913) 390-3672 and leave a message for the podcast!Clark and Laura discuss the current state of Catholic-Protestant relations in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast.—Chapters:0:00 Intro and listener feedback0:40 Vatican: banning religious order; news on AI3:16 Finland's president steals our analysis!3:44 Listener question: Protestant-Catholic relations36:50 Final thoughts37:38 Clip of Finland's president—You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble and Odysee:YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yxkdpR6KBo&list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rumble: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Odysee: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://odysee.com/@asimplehouseU⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠—Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.comA Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study.Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.asimplehouse.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast.YouTube - A Simple House: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ASimpleHouse_U⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook: @asimplehouse | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/@asimplehouse⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/asimplehouse.catholic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠—Thank you to Kelly Franzen & Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a media production company based out of Central Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.totusmedia.co/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more.#catholic #podcast #religion

Send us a textThere are many arguments for protestantism and many of them are powerful and ought to be taken seriously. However, some arguments have just such weird implications which are just flat out ridiculous. In this video, I respond to one such argument which intends to make the argument that Catholics are not Christian. This is plainly incorrect. Let's see why!Support the show--------------------------If you would want to support the channel and what I am doing, please follow me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/christianityforall Where else to find Josh Yen: Philosophy YT: https://bit.ly/philforallEducation: https://bit.ly/joshyenBuisness: https://bit.ly/logoseduMy Website: https://joshuajwyen.com/

In episode THREE HUNDRED AND SEVEN, Jason and Wade discuss various terms used to describe Christian churches and which ones apply to Lutherans today. In so doing, they discuss the history of the terms, their definitions, how use has changed, and why we claim them as our own as Lutherans. We hope you enjoy it! Show Notes: Support 1517 Podcast Network 1517 Podcasts 1517 on Youtube 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 Events Schedule 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education What's New from 1517: Bible in One Year with Chad Bird Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation, Book 1 of 2 by Amy Mantravadi Junk Drawer Jesus By Matt Popovits More from the hosts Michael Berg @ 1517 Wade Johnston @ 1517 Let the Bird Fly! website Thanks for listening! Attributions for Music and Image used in this Episode: “The Last One” by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. “Gib laut” by Dirk Becker is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. “Whistling Down the Road” by Silent Partner. “Not Drunk” by The Joy Drops is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License.

Saturday, 16 November 2024    Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Matthew 5:11   “Blessed are you when they shall defame you, and they shall pursue, and they shall lay forth all evil utterance, falsifying because of Me” (CG).   The previous verse noted those pursued for righteousness' sake, saying that theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. Jesus' words continue now with, “Blessed are you when they shall defame you.”   The word oneidizó, to defame, is introduced here. HELP Word Studies says, “properly, to disgrace (insult), reproach; mock (curse); insult, cast blame (create shame) – viewing someone (something) as culpably guilty and therefore deserving punishment.”   The reason for this defaming is not yet given, and so to continue, Jesus next says, “and they shall pursue.”   It is the same word introduced into the New Testament in the last verse and which is often translated as “persecute.” It is as if these people continually chase after you, never allowing you to rest and defaming you with every chance they can in the process. And yet, Jesus continues, saying, “and they shall lay forth all evil utterance.”   Most newer translations, based on a different source text, leave off the word rhéma, “utterance.” For example –   “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.” NIV   Either way, the thought is that of being constantly spoken against as evil in various ways. One can think of Paul in the Book of Acts, who was constantly hounded by the Jews who opposed him. They lied and manipulated in order to silence his message. This type of evil speaking actually cost Stephen his life in Acts 7. With that noted, Jesus next explains the context of these persecutions, while expanding on the previous clause saying, “falsifying because of Me.”   It is another new word, pseudomai, to lie or speak falsely. These are direct attacks against an individual intended to cause harm to him. In fact, such accusations could bring charges and severe penalties depending on the situation.   Peter, in his first epistle, and maybe thinking of these words of Matthew, wrote similar words for his audience as well –   “If you are reproached [oneidizó] for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.” 1 Peter 4:14   Life application: All of these things came upon Jesus, and so it is expected that they would come upon His followers as well. In the Christian Western world, there has been a large bubble of protection over believers as even governments supported the Christian cause.   Most of the dissensions didn't come from outside but from within, such as the Protestant-Catholic wars and upheavals throughout the years. However, the tide has turned. Christians are now openly targeted by the ungodly, rabid left. They are accused of being the haters and usurpers of what is right.   This will not decrease. The persecution will grow to a fevered pitch if the Lord doesn't return first. Churches will be targeted, pastors will be arrested for minor charges, and congregants will have their faith tested. It is no longer a question of “if” but of “when and to what degree.”   Folks need to be ready to either stand up for their faith or to walk away and hide cowardly from those who will no longer tolerate lights of righteousness in an ever-darkening world of wickedness.   Glorious God, we can see and read the writing on the wall. It is not unknown, and we don't need a prophet to explain it to us. Rather, we can look around and clearly see that the world is becoming less tolerant of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. Give us strength and wisdom to stand in this hour and boldly proclaim the word in a world that so desperately needs to hear it. Amen.  

In this episode of History 102, 'WhatIfAltHist' creator Rudyard Lynch is joined by business development executive and agriculture technology industry entrepreneur Austin Padgett and explore 17th century Western Europe's pivotal transformation. They examine how the Protestant-Catholic divide, parallel to modern political polarization, shaped warfare, science, and economics. The conversation reveals how the Dutch and English success in breaking monopolies and embracing agricultural innovation set the stage for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism. --

In this episode, Dr. T. Michael W. Halcomb (  @tmichaelwhalcomb  ) interviews Dr. Leonard DeLorenzo. Tune in as a Protestant and Catholic will talk about "Family, Faith, & More". This is an interview you don't want to miss. ***GlossaHouse resources are available at our website! - https://glossahouse.com/ ✏️ ***Sign up for classes with GlossaHouse U - https://glossahouse.com/pages/classes

This video is sponsored by Logos. For 10% off their incredible resources, visit: https://logos.com/gospelsimplicity https://logos.com/gospelsimplicityorthodoxhttps://verbum.com/gospelsimplicityIn this video, I'm joined by Suan Sonna,  a Catholic convert, Harvard Divinity School student, and all-around top-notch guy. In this back and forth conversation, we explore the big issues of Protestant/Catholic divisions, focusing especially on questions of bias, controversial assumptions, and whether or not Protestantism, specifically sola scriptura and perspicuity, works. It was a true delight. Check out Suan's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCCNjkpXEwIdH-jD8mPJwu_g Support Gospel Simplicity:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gospelsimplicityOne Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/gospelsimplicityMerch: https://shop.gospelsimplicity.com

Join us with our special guest, Josh, as we pepper our discussion with laughter while rethinking Catholic apologetics. Ever wonder how the early church fathers might sway a Protestant's path? We share Josh's unexpected detours from Protestantism to the welcoming arms of Catholicism, stirred by the rich teachings of those who walked the faith before us.Scripture is a tapestry, and in this episode, we thread the needle through the vibrant patterns of typology in the Old Testament. We weave the story of Jonah with the ministry of Jesus, demonstrating how these ancient narratives cast a prophetic shadow over the New Testament's revelation. And as we navigate through the labyrinth of biblical interpretation, we tackle the Catholic Church's bold claim to offer infallible guidance. The chessboard of theological debate is set, and we're questioning every move across the Protestant-Catholic divide, calling out for a higher caliber of discourse.Fasten your seatbelts as we take a sharp turn into the dynamic terrain of salvation. It's not just about punching a ticket to heaven; we reveal how salvation is more akin to a transformative journey—cue the Eastern Catholic concept of theosis and the Latin idea of divinization. We also spin the "first century peasant test," challenging the notion that simplicity lacks depth in scriptural understanding.  Tune in for a ride through theology that cuts through the noise to the heart of Christian unity.Support the show********************************************************https://www.avoidingbabylon.comLocals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.comRSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rssSpiritusTV: https://spiritustv.com/@avoidingbabylonRumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1626455Odysee: https://odysee.com/@AvoidingBabylon

In this enlightening episode we welcome Dr. Kirsteen Mackenzie, who is on a mission to challenge the conventional view of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 as a "bloodless" transition of power. Dr. Mackenzie delves into the complexities of this pivotal historical moment in England, Scotland, and Ireland, unraveling the long-ignored aspects of brutality and bloodshed associated with the revolution. This insightful discussion is divided into six parts, each shedding light on different facets of this intriguing historical narrative.Part 1:Dr. Kirsteen Mackenzie provides a rich historical context for the Glorious Revolution, with a focus on King James II's reign and the religious and political divisions of the era.The conversation explores the conflicts and controversies linked to King James II's Catholicism, especially within England, Scotland, and Ireland.Part 2:The discussion continues to dissect the events leading up to the Glorious Revolution, shedding light on the intricate relationships between the three kingdoms.Dr. Mackenzie emphasizes the religious and political factors that culminated in the invitation extended to William of Orange to ascend to the throne.Part 3:Part 3 offers a deeper exploration of the religious tensions and political intricacies underpinning the Glorious Revolution.The conversation underscores the significance of the Protestant-Catholic divide and the intertwined destinies of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Part 4:Part 4 transports us to Ireland, where Jacobite uprisings and battles played a defining role in the Glorious Revolution.Dr. Mackenzie delves into the Battle of Aughrim, featuring key figures like St. Ruth and Ginkle, and challenges the myth of a "bloodless" revolution.Part 5:The spotlight turns to Scotland in Part 5, with a focus on the tragic Massacre of Glencoe.Dr. Mackenzie offers insights into the circumstances surrounding the massacre and the role of Campbell of Glen Lyon, all within the context of the famed Highland hospitality.Part 6:The concluding part of the discussion delves deeply into the tragic events of the Glencoe Massacre, highlighting the loss of innocent lives.Dr. Mackenzie shares her personal connection to the history of Glencoe and concludes with reflections on the impact and prevailing perceptions of the Glorious Revolution.This episode takes you on a journey through a tumultuous period in history, offering a comprehensive understanding of the Glorious Revolution while challenging the historical misconception of its bloodlessness. Dr. Kirsteen Mackenzie passionately seeks to bring these long-hidden truths to light.You can buy Kirsteen's book La Garde Eciossaise from Amazon and you can follow Kirsteen on Twitter @kirsteenMMYou can follow History Rage on Twitter @HistoryRage and let us know what you wish people would just stop believing using the Hashtag #HistoryRage.You can join our 'Angry Mob' on Patreon as well. £5 per month gets you episodes 3 months early, the invite to choose questions, entry into our prize draws and the coveted History Rage mug. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric and Emily and special guest Scott Patterson discuss a concert Fr. Rivers hosted on August 19, 1971, recorded live at the Detroit Institute of Arts auditorium and produced by the National Office of Black Catholics. The concert—and the week-long workshop that preceded it—were intended as “an act of freedom on the part of contemporary American Black Catholics” to make their “own impact on Catholic worship” (Joseph Davis, SM, from the album's back cover). The conversation focuses on clips of the concert while touching on Gospel music then and now, the importance of Protestant-Catholic collaborations in building a Black Catholic liturgical aesthetic, music ministry in Black Catholic pastoral settings and, of course, Fr. Rivers and his legacy. For Episode 29 Show Notes, click here.

Today I will discuss some of the recent texts I've been reading and how they are crucial to the Protestant / Catholic issue. Papadakis, Louth and Siecienski texts are a helpful addendum to the history of Byzantium and the later issues of the papacy and the rise of Protestantism. Questioners can have the floor for as long as they like.

Ben Bollinger, a promising young Orthodox thinker, raises a new argument against sola scriptura. Suan, an ex-Protestant Catholic, offers some pushback. 

Seth Gruber is such a powerful winsome pro life speaker and its such a pleasure to have him join Hearts of Oak today. He has been touring the US over the last 3 months speaking to educational institutions, local activists and churches. With the great news of the Supreme Court reversing Roe vs Wade we discuss with Seth how this is affecting the debate in America, why the left so passionate about killing babies and why are churches silent on this great evil. It seems that our media and sections of the population love death more than churches love life. Seth tells us how he is going church by church and pulpit by pulpit to strengthen the church and give its voice back for life, compassion and justice for future generations Seth Gruber's clear, concise, and persuading approach has impacted thousands across the United States, providing the tools for an audience to change the mindset of the pro-abortion population. In his later years in college, he challenged the institutions and others for their refusal to take a formal position on abortion, which accelerated the appreciation and understanding of Seth's work among pro-life advocates, pregnancy facilities, churches, and the political domains across the United States. Seth quickly discovered the ignorant and widely indolent culture surrounding him both in and out of the church, and in the universities, which he responded with coordinated educational campaigns and booth displays, engaging with thousands of students on the topic of abortion. It also became obvious to Seth, the church needs to be awaken on abortion. Seth's impact is real, changing the hearts and minds of so many on their position on abortion. Joining the Life Training Institute as a pro-life speaker, Seth is now a nationally renowned voice for life, the founder and president of The White Rose Resistance, which has its origins during Nazi holocaust to end the racism infiltrating the world. Pro-Life Ministries is another recent project that Seth is facilitating at churches across the 50 States and abroad. Giving countless speeches to over half a million people so far, and reaching millions through media, Seth Gruber has launched a powerful movement that is moving forward, impacting today's generation and preparing a future generation on all platforms across the United States. Connect with Seth and The White Rose Resistance... WEBSITES: http://sethgruber.com/                   https://thewhiterose.life/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/sgruber91 GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/sethgruber TRUTH: https://truthsocial.com/@sethgruber PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unaborted/id1471076523 Interview recorded 17.5.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) And hello, Hearts of Oak. Welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Seth Gruber. Seth Gruber is the CEO and founder of the White Rose Resistance, host of Unaborted. And a Turning Point USA ambassador. And I've watched many of his debates, many of his podcasts. I bumped into him at a CNP conference in Miami in February. And he has such a winsome position on this. We've had other speakers and Seth brings something different. So we start with him presenting what the pro-life position is, why we need to remind ourselves the importance of standing up for those with no voice, those with few rights in society, and then we look at why the left are so passionate about abortion, why they're desperate, desperate to fund as much, as many abortions as they can. Where does that come from? So we talk about that craziness, I guess, in the left. A passion for death more than we have a passion for life. And then we go into the institutions. He's just been on a tour. Numerous tours, all sold out. He is based in California, but moving all across the country. Got another set of dates coming up in autumn, in the fall. You can check out that on on his website, sethgruber.com, and be a part of that if you are in the area. And he talks about engaging with the political sphere, engaging with local activism, engaging with the church, and why the church is so sound on this issue. Whether they should be the most vocal about standing up for the rights of those who have no voice. You'll love listening to Seth presenting this in such a winsome way. And hello Hearts of Oak. Today it is an honour to talk to the CEO and founder of the White Rose Resistance, host of Unaborted, a Turning Point USA Ambassador and that is Seth Gruber. Seth, thank you for your time today. (Seth Gruber) Yeah Peter, good to be on with you man, thanks for your program and being willing to talk about the issues that so many wont. Always, as I said to you before we went on there. It's my red line as a Christian. How can you talk about life and not actually defend life? But we'll get into all that. All the links are sethgruber.com, thewhiterose.life and all the other links are in the description @sgruber91 on Twitter. Everything else is there. But just the white rose, that seeks to educate the public about the humanity of the unborn baby, to expose a grotesque immorality of the pro-choice position and inspire the church to accomplish her spiritual duty of ending the greatest injustice of our time. But if I could just, for the viewers and listeners, we have had pro-life speakers on before, including my good friend Scott Klusendorf, and we've had Jannique Stewart on a number of times. While being pro-life is not one of our key aims and organization. I think it's essential that our audience regularly hears a reasoned defence of the importance of life and for those watching who are Christians, they command all Christians, Proverbs 31.8 and many other places, but says speak out on behalf of the voiceless and for the right of all who are vulnerable and who is more voiceless than than the unborn. But that's my prelude. Seth, before we move into the issue and for our UK audience, probably 65% UK, 30% US, but who maybe do not know you, could I ask you to introduce yourself before we move on to the sanctity of life. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Peter. Yeah, I've been a pro-life activist since I was a foetus. So I've been in these waters, I guess, quite literally for a long time. My mother was the executive director of a pregnancy resource centre while pregnant with me in Los Angeles County. So she took over a centre in her late 20s in Azusa, California, which is right where APU is, Azusa Pacific University. And then she married my father and continued directing that centre until she gave birth to me, so she was waddling around the centre as the executive director, and only stepped down once I was born. We have the pamphlet announcing my mother stepping down from directing the Pro-Life Pregnancy Centre to welcome me and to be a stay-at-home mom. Then I did the Walk for Life every year and supported our local pregnancy centre. I was one of the top childhood fundraisers, although I was more incentivized by the free bicycles and Disneyland tickets, but at seven, eight, nine years old. Obviously I was swimming in those waters already and I had an understanding of something's going, something's wrong here, something's evil here. It wasn't until my senior year of high school, now I was home-schooled through eighth grade and then I went to public high school, and this is Whittier High School in Los Angeles County, it's actually Richard Nixon's alma mater, and they told me I couldn't pick the topic of abortion for my senior project. And so I, it's sort of, now I'm only embellishing a little bit here, Peter, okay? I basically said, here's a copy of the constitution. You're making me read a government class. I recommend you read it or you're gonna have a lawsuit on your hands. And so I actually did, I did threaten a lawsuit to Whittier High School at 18 years old, public high school. And, you know, they weren't ready for a classically educated home schooler. And so they backed off real quick. I did my senior project on the issue of abortion and I did my volunteer hours that everyone had to do to graduate. I don't know if they do this anymore, by the way. It used to be a little more difficult to graduate. You actually had to like work hard, but like you had to do a like 10 page research paper. You had to give a speech at the end of the year and you had to do field work hours that aligned with your topic selection. And so I did those at the Centre for Bioethical Reform, CBR, led by Greg and Lois Cunningham, my godparents, because my mother was on the board of directors for CBR when it was founded in 1990, in 1991. So, the first thing they had me do as a senior in high school was to scan 300 images of first trimester mutilated aborted babies on their high-end scanner and categorize the photos in their database for their educational projects. So, for two days straight, about six hour, two six hour shifts, I'm scanning and looking at choice. I'm scanning and looking at reproductive health care and women's rights, allegedly. And that was probably one of the biggest turning points in my life was actually being forced to look at the eyeballs, noses, faces, ears, fingers, hands, arms of slaughtered little children, all at the seven, eight, nine, and ten week stage. I mean, this is what I was told was pregnancy tissue by the culture. And I had never seen those photos before, even as a pro-life student with a mother who had been the director of a pregnancy centre, I had never seen those photos before. And so that we're talking about, of course, when 90% of abortions are performed, the first trimester, and when there's the greatest public support for abortion, the first trimester. And so then I went up to a Christian college in Santa Barbara, started a pro-life club there, learned that I was not so much amongst friends as I thought, I thought, Christian college, right, Peter, like everyone's pro-life, right? I was home-schooled, right? I mean, come on, every Christian's pro-life. How naïve I was. I did not realize that when I enrolled there as a freshman. I learned that there are pro-abortion professors on the payroll, actually, at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. And some people, they really don't like when I go after my alma mater, and I'm not very popular there. I don't really care. Here are their names. Omidy Oceng, he no longer teaches there, though I took public speaking from him. He's pro-abortion. He once said in an email, he said that the students at Westmont College were best served when our chapel speakers invited us to tarry in the liminal spaces of complexity on the abortion issue. And then there's a Deborah Dunn in the Communication Studies Department who I had an email debate with, who had advertised the Planned Parenthood, no, a internship with the local Planned Parenthood, funded and sponsored representative named Lois Capps. She's only like pro-abortion through point of birth, Peter, like in Santa Barbara, local politician, right? And Planned Parenthood lackey. And my Christian college is advertising internship opportunities with the pro-homosexuality, pro-LGBTQ ally, pro-abortion through point of birth Democrat politician in Santa Barbara and the Christian college in that city whose motto is Christ preeminent in all things is telling their students, Hey, check out this cool internship. With who? The spirit of the age? You know, it reminds me of something Fulton Sheen once said, Peter, if you wed yourself to the spirit of the age, you'll find yourself a widow in the next. But you know, you're not allowed to talk about those kind of things at Westmont College. And so let's see who else was there. There was a married doctor, a Spanish professor, who's pro abortion as well. And then a married couple, Chris and Sherry Heckley, who teach in different departments and they're both pro abortion. So that's like five or six professors on the payroll of a Christian college whose motto is Christ preeminent in all things, who defend abortion through point of birth. And so I started finding the steel in my spine, actually, Peter, at a Christian college, not at a state college, which, you know, might surprise some people. It shouldn't today, by the way. It should not surprise you. Most Christian colleges are just kind of what Bonhoeffer meant when he said cheap grace. And so I did my summer job with the CBR. So that was my summer job. When I would come home from college, I was a paid intern for them. And I helped organize and run probably over 10 or 11 genocide awareness projects on university campuses in Southern California with the big aborted baby photos that compare abortion to historically recognized forms of genocide. So that's my background, Peter. And then when I graduated at Westmont, I joined Life Training Institute under the tutelage of Scott Klusendorf and began speaking in youth groups and Protestant Catholic high schools and the occasional church that had the balls to actually speak out on life and let me have the pulpit. And then at the end of 2020, everything changed. I had had all my speaking cancelled for several months, obviously. And then I met Jack Hibbs and Rob McCoy. Rob McCoy became my pastor. We moved our family from South Orange County to Godspeed Calvary Chapel. I started the pro-life ministry there. We built that ministry there It's now saving babies on a monthly basis, it's got sidewalk counsellors mentor families for those who choose life celebrating them throwing their baby showers post-abortion healing and orphan foster care. I ran my show out of Rob studio, Rob, of course with the mayor of Thousand Oaks the the city just north of LA County while the senior pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel. And when he told Governor Gavin Newsom-Leany in California that he wouldn't be shutting his church and he opened it, he had lawsuits. And they actually came to possibly arrest him and the elders. And then a thousand Christians from around California showed up in the parking lot of Godspeak Calvary Chapel that Sunday and said, start with us. So those are my people, that's my church. And that's how God started kind of moving through my ministry to mobilize and awaken pastors and the church to get engaged. And so we launched the White Rose Resistance right after the overturning of Roe versus Wade to rebuild Christian resistance before it's too late to get the church engaged and stop waiting for pro-life ministries and pregnancy centres to do the job that god's called the church to do actually, Which is to be the hands and feet of Jesus to hold back those staggering toward the slaughter to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves pure and undefiled religion love the orphan and the widow the unborn child is definitely an orphan in god's view, because his parents want him dead and so that's we're building kind of the turning point USA of the pro-life movement, is the goal peter? And to actually get the church mobilized at the local level to end abortion. And so we go on to college campuses, we go into churches, we've had two of those tours this season, we're doing another one in the fall, and we're hiring and we're growing. So if any people in the US are interested, head over to thewhiterose.life, head on over to Red Balloon, and, apply if you think that God's called you to end abortion. Well, let's go on the issue. I mean, I've heard Greg Cunningham twice in the UK, a fascinating, an absolute hero. And I've loved watching Jack Hibbs during the lockdown with someone who's fearless and will stand up to anyone, love it. But on the issue, I mean, at hand, I mean, why should we care what people want to do with their own private lives? I mean, surely it's up to women or now that men can have babies, it's up to men as well to do they want to do with their own body. Yeah, I mean, the culture of death has crept in to the church a lot, Peter, and so we say silly things like that, and I hear Christians say things like that, who sometimes even say that they're pro-life, right? The typical line, like, I wouldn't get an abortion. But I mean, I personally am pro-life. It's like saying, I'm personally against slavery, but if my neighbour Bob wants to purchase black men, I mean, who am I to say, you know? So, I mean, the culture of death, it creeps in, and we begin to parrot the culture. We begin to sound more like the culture of death than we sound like the blood-bought Christ, the blood-bought bride of Christ. And that's a problem. It's a real critique, I think, on the church, that we don't actually take the liturgy of our own faith seriously, that we don't actually catechize our children. And so they do get catechized, that they get catechized by the culture, which has its own kooky religious premises as well, doesn't it? And so, I mean, that's kind of how I always start because it's like the fact that that's even an acceptable statement for some Christians to say is I think a real judgment on the church, you know? Why should we care what they do with their body? I mean, it's like, okay, do we have to do this? Okay, all right. I was a pre-born male. I was a male in the womb. God was knitting me together in the womb. And if you just want to go this purely scientific route, right, if you're talking to an atheist, I was developing myself from within. We know from the science of embryology that the pre-born child develops them self, right? The mother's not like asking baby to grow. It's like the child's directing their own internal growth from within. That's what it means to be a pre-born human being. And so my male genitalia was developing itself in the womb, Peter, which means that I was not my mother's body. I know that's super sciencey for pro-choicers. I know that's super hard to follow. But pregnant women actually don't have male genitalia. And so if a pre-born male, unborn child, can be a male and have their male genitalia being developed, then they are not their mother's body. There's lots of ways to poke fun at this, obviously. Here's another one. Let's say a pregnant woman had intractable nausea, Peter, and could not stop throwing up due to her pregnancy. She's tried diplegias. She's tried other forms. Nothing stopped the nausea. She's almost on bed rest now. She can't keep any food down. So she goes to her OB, Peter, and she says, you know, I really need some of that thalidomide. Nothing is stopping this nausea. And he goes, well, I'm not going to give you thalidomide, ma'am. It's illegal. Plus, don't you know your baby is likely to be born without any arms? And she ignores him. She finds some illegally anyways and takes it. Four months later, her baby's born without any arms. Did she do anything wrong? Every time I've asked that to a pro-choice or on a college campus, their eyes glaze over, Peter. And most of them say, hell yeah, because I trick them. I get them because, you know, reality always reasserts itself in the end, doesn't it? And when it does, it'll slap you in the face hard. And so I always trick them because I'm just, they're acknowledging a portion of reality, but they're trying to suppress the rest of that in order to maintain their pro-choice delusions. And so every college student I've asked that to, Peter has said, hell yeah, that's effing wrong. That's effed up, dude. What the, you know, like they think it's like really effed up and really wrong. And then I say to them, who the hell are you to judge her? It's her body, her choice. The foetus has no right to her body anyways. If she can murder the baby, she can certainly intentionally harm the child in a way that doesn't kill the child. Yeah, are you telling me, ProChoicer, that it's worse to harm someone than to kill someone? Because that's what they're saying, right? When they say she has a right to abortion, but it's wrong and effed up for her to take thalidomide to get rid of her nausea, and her baby will be alive, likely. Her baby will live. those being born without any arms. And they go, that's screwed up, man, because she knew that she was doing something that could harm her child. Do you hear yourself right now? So there's always lots of ways to kind of poke fun at it. But what does that do? It reveals that deep down, they know that the body in her body is not her body. So why do we care about what other people do with their body, Peter? Because sometimes you can use your body in a way that intentionally harms or kills other human beings. That's why. And when you do that, that's wrong and that should be illegal and we should have laws against that, that's why. When I talk to friends on the left, I do have some of them still, and they seem to be, passionate about abortion. In fact, I have some friends who I didn't think they had any interest apart from just their social media themselves, what they watch on TV, and you discuss current affairs, no interest, and then you mention the issue of, well, maybe it's not right to take the life of another human being through abortion and they literally manifest and suddenly they become so passionate about killing babies. This seems to be what they're about. How have we kind of, how have we come to that that there is so much passion for death in part of our society? How have we come to that? I mean like how have we not come to that? I mean that's the history of of humanism, that's the history of most civilizations throughout all of human history. Most civilizations practiced human sacrifice. So like most civilizations practice slavery. In fact, every civilization did. So I'm like, I think the church has to kind of, I think conservatives have grown so comfortable, and cushy with our freedoms in the West and we're watching those freedoms, you know, obviously, deteriorate or disappear entirely really quickly, and especially in America, right? Because we tend to linger a little behind the UK and Canada, you know, culturally and politically, Peter. We're so comfortable and we're like, what is going on? You know, it's like, how did this happen? It's like, what are you talking about? Like, this is the norm, y'all. This is the norm. You've grown so fat on liberty that you've mistaken it for libertinism and licentiousness. This killing human beings, innocent human beings, and sacrificing them to kooky deities with the belief that your life will be improved is actually quite normal. Yeah, it was Christianity, y'all, that kind of brought about this concept of the sanctity of life, the rights of the individual. That human being is have dignity because they're created in the image of God. And so this concept of the Imago Dei kind of really, in a very real way, provided the basis for this idea called human equality and human rights that we've taken for granted. So most people who hate Christianity, Peter, wouldn't want to live in an America without it or in a country without it. You know, it's the same people who say that God doesn't exist, but they also really hate him. You know, it's like wait a second. Um, I'm not sure I think I think you got the math wrong there. Um, you know, I think they like the American humanist association what's exist, what existed for the eradication of God, but they were all atheists, it's like so you want to eradicate someone that doesn't exist, it's like that's a little weird but it's like eternity's written on the heart of man, right? Like we all know there's a god just like we all know we're killing babies We all know this. Um, I just talked to a crazy kooky pro-choicer at San Diego state university. And he was talking about the thing in the womb, the thing in the uterus, and he called it a baby. And then he corrected himself and he said foetus. And I said, ah, shoot. Yeah, you said baby, didn't you? Ah, yeah, Freudian slip, right? And I told him, I was like, it's okay. Pro-choicers do that a lot because reality always reasserts itself. And you know it's a baby, but you've got to try to use dehumanizing terms to justify child sacrifice so you can have orgasms without responsibility, huh? That's why you actually, you slipped up there, huh, brother? And he laughed. He was like, yeah. So I've had that interaction more than once, actually, being around college campuses where they accidentally called a baby. That just happened last year at UC Berkeley, too. The dude was talking about the fetus, and he called it a baby. And then he changed it. He said, foetus. I was like, ah. And so we all know, actually, what we're doing. That's the bottom line and I think that the church in particular has to start treating this issue and really the broader secular moral revolution as a secular regressive revolution. There's nothing progressive or new or modern or advanced about their ideas, right? The left's ideas on human nature, gender, abortion, marriage, sexuality, are not more modern but far more ancient than those of the revolutionary founding fathers that built America and of the Christians that largely built the West. And so as C.S. Lewis once said, we all want progress, right? But if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road. In that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. And when you notice you're on the wrong road, it's only the pessimist who continues to walk off the cliff. The progressive turns around and finds a way to right himself and get onto the wrong road, onto the right road rather. And so child sacrifice and human sacrifice goes back to the first generations immediately following Adam and Eve. Child sacrifice is what incites some of God's most colourful language in scripture. Let's put it this way, God gets pissed. He gets real pissed when the Israelites are killing babies to Moloch and Baal and Asherah and all this craziness, right? Well, we have the same gods of our culture today, the God of sex and the God of human sacrifice and child sacrifice, but they've been, they're described in such clinical language, right? They're described as sort of anti-religious, like there are no Gods, but it's still the same spirit that demands the same things as those ancient deities did. They were really just demons. So we're still sacrificing children to demons. We just call it health care. We call it women's rights. And we call it feminism. And so this cult of feminism and progressivism is just another iteration in a long humanistic experiment that has sought to place man as God. And the problem, right, with replacing God from the culture as we're starting to experience, Peter, is that other kooky religions take its place. So there's actually no such thing as moral neutrality. Replace Christianity, and then you get humanism, you get progressivism, you get evolutionism, you get neo-Malthusianism. And they're very religious worldviews too. They're just way more dangerous and way more kooky. And so the church has to start realizing that there will be a standard and there will be a dominant religion. The question is whose? Whose morality and whose religion? Well, why not the one that built the West and provided the freedoms that everyone takes for granted today and will no longer get comfortable with being uncomfortable in order to defend on behalf of the next generation? And if we can't get the right to life right, we're not going to get any other rights right. That's why the founders in America said we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal they're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are the right to life liberty in the pursuit of happiness they put life first because the right to liberty and pursuit of happiness don't mean much, in fact, they mean nothing at all if you can be murdered. Tell us about your, you've obviously just finished what 15 or 20 dates. Finished last month and you said you're going another one in the fall. Tell us about that and where your focus has been. Is it church groups? Is it political groups? Is it local activist groups? I mean where are you spending your time on those dates, on those events? Yeah, I used to speak everywhere, but now with three kids, and with my 2023 calendar almost full already, praise God, I mean, I never thought that would happen. We only have two or three slots maybe left in the entire year. And so we've had to really focus on high impact events and getting other people mobilized and engaged because I'm not building a Seth Gruber organization, I'm building, I'm rebuilding Christian resistance, which entails stewardship. It entails personal responsibility, right? It entails sacrifice, actually. And, you know, another time, Peter, I can tell the whole story of the White Rose resistance. But, you know, these were 20-somethings Christians who were murdered and had their heads chopped off on February 22, 1943, in Nazi Germany, because they distributed anti-Nazi leaflets all around the country to try to prick the conscience of the culture and get the church wakened up and engaged. And they were murdered for their efforts. So the reason we think that them brave and courageous is because they sacrificed far more with far less freedom. To stand against their Holocaust than we have ever done to stand against ours. That's why we think these figures are so heroic, Peter. They had far less freedom than we in the West do right now. And they sacrificed far more than most of us have ever sacrificed. That's a critique against the church in the West. And so we exist to rebuild that Christian resistance and develop the local leadership to get people engaged at the local level. And so that means finding brave men and women. That means finding courageous men and women who actually want to lay down their lives and their sacred honours to tear down the high places once again and to give God a reason to show America mercy. And so we prioritize churches for that event. And I've been blessed and frankly, blown away, Peter. I don't know how this has happened apart from the hand of God, to have been in more pulpits on Sunday mornings on the issue of life since the end of 2020 than any pro-life speaker in the world that I know of. I don't know of anyone who's been in as many pulpits in a two and a half year period, individual separate churches around the country. And we've started dozens of pro-life ministries at those churches, by the way. I don't just leave and say, hey, thanks for letting me speak. Now, you know, later, like we bring in our leadership and ministries that we partner with to develop and train people to get engaged in sidewalk counselling outside of abortion centres, orphan foster care, mentor families for those who choose life actually, and post-abortion healing as well. And so as we're growing and mobilizing people at the local level, the goal will be getting the church engaged in some of those lanes, including public events that really mock these ideas in the spirit of the age, and raising up new activists that actually take our content to the streets as well. And so we're building all of that infrastructure now because we're a brand new organization. So we got to hire and find the right talent. And God's been blessing our organization immensely. And we're very excited for how God's gonna move this year and in the following year. And so we do the college campuses to provide that last voice of sanity, In an out of control environment and to capture interaction and dialogues, that most people don't ever see and that's the beauty of social media Even though it's harder to get your content out if you're conservative than it was 10 years ago, But you know my conversations with pro-abortion people are often conversations, no one online has ever seen before, Rarely has anyone ever encountered someone and I'm not trying to sound like an ass here peter or speak pridefully but this is my this is the hill I will die on and so very rarely has anyone ever spoken to someone like me. Um, who's who's ready to jump into the cage, um and knows exactly what I believe and how to articulate it And so pro-choice, we see this happening conversations, you know Pro-choicers literally walk away from me sometime at the end of the conversation saying thank you. I had never thought of that before, Uh, and I'm like, you know, like whoa You know, like so there are people who will still be humble enough to admit that they don't know everything, And they did not know what to say to me and we want to capture those interactions to change minds, change hearts, and save lives and get people engaged in our movement. And then we're working on lots of digital media activism resources this year that frankly, you've never seen in the pro-life movement before that you'll see coming out this year and then the the church tours where we spend most of our time so we did nine churches in the fall and we're finishing I think 16 churches between January and May, This month and so we go to Idaho on Sunday. Today's May 17th So we go to Idaho on Sunday, and then we go to Vermont the Sunday after. And then I'm done for the spring, and we take all of June off and go on family vacation. But, so that'll be 16, 20, 25 or 26 churches between August of 2022 and May of 2023. And it's about time, huh? That the church get woken up and actually adopting personal responsibility. So I'll leave you with this line from Bonhoeffer on this question. Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, if I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't as a Christian simply wait for the catastrophe to happen, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver. Well, the drunk driver in the West is the secular progressive, regressive moral revolution that's driving that bus or truck over the bodies of innocent families, children, babies, and the social fabric. And the church has been sitting in that passenger seat for so long, especially in America, Peter, where we the people are the sovereign. And we've been screaming the gospel out the window at people who are about to be ploughed over. But we won't actually try to wrestle the steering wheel away from the driver to actually save innocent human beings who are about to be destroyed by dangerous ideas, ideologies, or in this case, forceps will tear them limb from limb. We have to start exercising responsibility and stewardship. That's actually the role of the church, Peter. That's not the role of all the 501c3 organizations that we're grateful for that do good work. But we have way too many non-profits, frankly, in America. But the reason is, is because most non-profits are doing the work that the church has advocated, that the church used to do. We've got to get back to our early roots. So that's what we're trying to build. I, one church I remember having many conversations with and had to walk away and They said, Peter, you need to understand we're pro-life. But we need to be very careful on this issue and then I remember it being another church and they were going to the 10 commandments and the person had spoken do not murder and for five minutes in that said, abortion is murder and the church made a public apology the next Sunday to say we need to be very careful and then another pastor told me, Peter you're probably one of those people who will stand outside the abortion clinics and shout at those poor women going in, And I sat back thinking, our churches are afraid of public opinion and of offending the congregation rather than they are worried about offending God. That's right, yeah. I guess it's the same in America, that confusion of actually, fear of your congregation, I guess the tides that come in through your congregation, rather than a fear of God and how God looks at our actions. Yep. So there's a character in scripture named Phineas, and we don't know much about him except it says that Phineas drove a spear through someone who was committing sexual sin. And it says he was zealous for the honour of God. And then it says, so God stayed his judgment. And that's all we know about Phineas, is that he dealt with the sin in the camp. Took initiative and responsibility. God honoured it and he stayed his judgment because of Phineas' actions. We're not zealous for the honour of God in the West, we're not. We're zealous for the tithes, of our congregants whose political sensibilities we won't offend by preaching the full counsel of God from the pulpit. We're zealous for seal claps from our congregants. We're zealous for a little bit more crumbs from the table of the worldly leaders. And if we will not be zealous for the honour of God, I fear what we might hear on Judgment Day when we were wedding ourselves to the spirit of the age, and woke up and found our self a widow in the next. Can I ask you about, moving on to the politics side, some of our viewers on this will be Christians, many will not, and they probably look at a political solution for this. So I'm wondering, maybe just to finish off on that political side, where are we the whole Roe versus Wade issue? It's exciting to see states taking control of that and fighting for that. Let us know what's happening on that? Well I mean gosh when Roe v. Wade got overturned Peter, what we call the liberal establishment in America started collapsing in on itself like a dying star. I mean like they lost their freaking minds. They were saying things like the Republicans are now coming for interracial marriage. It's like they're like what? Like Clarence Thomas, our most conservative pro-life Supreme Court Justice, who is frankly more conservative than Antonin Scalia actually, he's married to a to a white woman, just like, and he's the main reason why Roe v. Wade got overturned, of course, because he's been the most reliable conservative on the court. It's like, really, do you think he's coming for his own marriage? Like, but you see the kind of things they say when you come for their sacrament of abortion. So, yeah, things have been a little out of control here, really, since this pandemic, but certainly since the overturning of Roe versus Wade. And so, this is really like, it is a new season in the fight life. And it's a moment for the pro-life movement to begin showing how seriously they take this issue. Unfortunately, we do have a lot of pro-life ministries that will say things like, you know, the woman should have no legal punishment, at any time, in any state, for any reason, if she gets an abortion when it's against the law. Now, listen, the pro-life movement chose a strategy a long time ago to go after the abortionists and not the woman, Because if they went after the woman and she was also, being convicted of a crime then she could not testify against the abortionist in court, And so they chose the liberal strategy in the drug wars of going after the provider rather than the user if you will. That's actually a liberal strategy And it was a conservatives that wanted to just shut down, you know, the drugs that actually punished drug users It was liberals who said no, let's go after the providers the drug sellers Well, whether it was right or wrong, the pro-life movement chose the strategy of going after the providers, the abortionists, and not convicting the woman so she could testify against the abortionist in court. But with Roe v. Wade overturned and states being able to ban abortion fully and entirely, if we believe that the pre-born child is a person with equal rights and dignity, then we cannot say, oh, the parents who arranged the death of that child and paid for the death of that child, if it's not the abortion pill, right, because obviously you're doing that yourself. But if you're going to an abortionist, you're paying a hitman to kill your baby. What's wrong with a law that says if you kill innocent human beings, there are legal consequences? I don't see anything wrong with that law. Now, if a mother paid, let's say, a hitman to drown her child in the pond, she might not be charged with first degree murder, but she would be charged as a conspirator, right? As an accomplice to murder. Why would we not say the same thing with abortion? And so there are a lot of pro-life ministries that are intentionally crafting legislation that put in exceptions for rape, right? And that put in exceptions to make sure that the woman can't be charged in any way, shape or form. So I am an incrementalism in the sense that I'd rather have a bill that protects most pre-born children than have a bill that protects no pre-born children, simply because I don't have the votes at the time to get the abortion ban passed. So I'm willing to accept incremental victories because that's how the left has brought us to this moment, incrementally, and they've been very patient. But yes, I think the overturning of Roe versus Wade is kind of showing now in this new season who takes this issue as a true holocaust, who takes this issue as actually genocide of little babies, and who's willing to live like it, legislate like it, pray like it, and sacrifice like it. And so I guess I'm grateful for that in the sense that, you know, we're seeing who is willing to toe the line and who's willing to attack at the front lines. And unfortunately, I think a lot of organizations and some right-to-life groups in different states don't really want a full ban on abortion at the state level. But if we're going to be zealous for the honour of God, that is what we have to pursue. I don't think that an incremental bill is apostasy or means giving your soul over to Satan. I think we take the victories where we can get them, but the goal should be abolishing abortion at the federal level of course. Now that's going to take a lot of states to get the kind of coalition you need for a constitutional amendment. But as we work towards that in America, we need to be, the church needs to be getting engaged politically. They need to be voting with their Bibles open. Pastors need to be preaching the full counsel of God from the pulpit on these issues so that their people go and vote with their Bibles open at the ballot box to get the kind of governors elected and the kind of state legislatures elected that will ban abortion at the state level. Set a new precedent in America. It's going to send a very strong message to the Moloch serviles and the Democrat Party and the liberal establishment that you have not begun to see me fight yet. And just, can I just as we finish, there is a absolute wonderful podcast that people can find your latest one. I think you can't build a culture of life by funding the culture of death. And that's the economic side by Michael Seifert, Founder and CEO of Public Square. And I would encourage our viewers and listeners to go delve into that. That's a whole area that we don't have time for today. Seth, thank you for coming on. I was so chuffed when I saw your name at the CNP Conference, and I made a beeline for you. So it's an honor having you on. Thank you so much for your time today. Yeah, good to meet you, Peter. Stay faithful, stand fast, and don't let the commies get you down.

About six months ago, I did a pod on Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese's 1990 magnum opus on the wise guys of New York, which to me was sweeping, magnetic and a triumph. And as I said then, it's a young man's film --- it had all the adrenaline, obstinance, the hubris, and the self-belief that young men often possess. A lot of water under that bridge since 1990, with Scorsese directing a slew of incredible films to follow: the remake of Cape Fear, a huge change of pace in The Age Of Innocence, back to wise guys with Casino, Gangs Of New York for a take on the Protestant-Catholic and Nativist battles of the 1860s, The Aviator, a terrific film on Howard Hughes that didn't get its due, then winning the Best Director Oscar in 2006 for The Departed. You've heard me rant about that late, late recognition before, so I'll let it lie. Then through the latter part of the 2010s with amazing films like Hugo, The Wolf Of Wall Street and Silence. Where am I going with this laundry list? Here, you have the protagonist, but where's the antagonist, huh? Where's the drama?  Like De Sica and his Italian Neorealism series of Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, and Umberto D, tracing the ages of man in post-WWII Rome, you can conveniently stick a square peg in a square hole and assert that Scorsese is following a similar arc with his gang and wise guy films. Early work with young, promising actors in Mean Streets, followed by the crazy adults of Goodfellas, middle-aged and calculating in Casino. And what's at the end of the arc? The wise guys in old age, looking back. What we find is the film, The Irishman. email: David@thosewonderfulpeople.comWebsite and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comIG: @thosewonderfulpeopleTwitter: @FilmsInTheDark

Special Guest Host Ken Hensley Sola Scriptura and Bible Authority: The printing press lead to the reformation Norman - God is in charge of the Church and he'll work out the Protestant Catholic debate. I was raised Catholic but am now protestant. Ed - Protestants in the USA reads the bible through a political filter

Michael goes over the hierarchy of truths and explains why an understanding of this concept is crucial to move the Protestant/Catholic dialogue forward. He also shows why some of the objections of Protestants are misplaced.

Fr. Seraphim Rose writes: The concept of prelest, a key one in Orthodox ascetical teaching, is completely absent in the Protestant-Catholic world which produced the "charismatic" movement; and this fact explains why such an obvious deception can gain such a hold over nominally "Christian" circles, and also why a "prophet" like Nicholas Berdyaev who comes from an Orthodox background should regard it as absolutely essential that in the "new age of the Holy Spirit" "There will be no more of the ascetic world-view." The reason is obvious: the Orthodox ascetic world-view gives the only means by which men, having received the Holy Spirit at their Baptism and Chrismation, may truly continue to acquire the Holy Spirit in their lives; and it teaches how to distinguish and guard oneself against spiritual deception. The "new spirituality" of which Berdyaev dreamed and which the "charismatic revival" actually practices, has an entirely different foundation and is seen to be a fraud in the light of the Orthodox ascetical teaching. Therefore, there is not room for both conceptions in the same spiritual universe: to accept the "new spirituality" of the "charismatic revival" one must reject Orthodox Christianity; and conversely, to remain an Orthodox Christian, one must reject the "charismatic revival," which is a counterfeit of Orthodoxy. From "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future", p. 143-146. Buy the book here: https://www.sainthermanmonastery.com/product-p/orf.htm For those interested, you can listen to my recent conversation with Joseph Sciambra on Fr. Seraphim Rose, "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future", and more: https://youtu.be/kNRTZTzPrtY Orthodox Wisdom is dedicated to sharing the writings and lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church. Glory to Jesus Christ! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/orthodox-wisdom/message

Independent historian Michael Hoffman expounds the epistemology of the non-conforming historians known as “revisionists” — those who defy political correctness and risk the ire of cancel culture as part of their voyage of discovery. Using as his palette the monarchy of Elizabeth I, the Jesuits, quantum physics, the campaign against mammonism and capitalism, the Protestant-Catholic wars of religion, Shakespeare and Marlowe, the British Secret Service and the occult from John Dee to Pico della Mirandola, Hoffman illustrates the meaning and function of revisionist history in its indispensable service to the expansion of human knowledge.

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A London lottery creates more than 100 years of grumbling conflict on Prince Edward Island. We meet William Cooper who comes up with a too clever-by-half scheme to scoop the landlords from their properties. Then it's on to George Coles and responsible government. And finally we have a dash of Protestant-Catholic identity politics - because what episode would be complete without that savoury spice? If you like what you're hearing and want to support the podcast, please head on over to our Patreon page where, for only $5/month, you can become a real-life patron of the arts - and keep 1867 & All That online in perpetuity. It's kind of like making history. https://www.patreon.com/1867andAllThat  

In this episode, Malcolm and Peter start discussing the second chapter of Let Us Dream, by Pope Francis. This is the fifth part of a series of episodes. The first episode is here, the second episode is here, the third here, and the fourth here. The following are some of the points we discussed. Individual Discernment and the Community In the first chapter, Pope Francis talked about the importance of seeing clearly so that we are aware of the reality of the world around us. In the second chapter, he talks about the importance of discernment. We need reflection, silent prayer, and study to discern; but we also need a community. How are individual discernment and the private conscience of the individual related to the communal teaching of the Church? It might seem like these things are opposed. In reality, however, the guidance of the community is there to keep individual discernment from going off the rails. It provides accountability and helps us to see beyond ourselves. We also need authority to keep private interpretations from producing division. This is why the Church has the final say on any private revelation. Growth as a human person always includes a history, a tradition that we’ve inherited, and feedback from others. Even Jesus himself built on the Jewish tradition that he inherited as a man. As Catholics, we have the community of the saints and the rich tradition of Catholic thought and practice. None of us can claim to have formed our own ideas of religion and morality for ourselves; we’ve all been shaped by others. Learning in community is much more than just coming to understand concepts. Concepts are presented to us by fellow members of our community, but they are not learned primarily through intellectual thought. We learn by doing, being part of a community that has certain kinds of practice, through the witness of others. As St. Paul said, imitate me, as I imitate Christ. The tradition grows like a tree in the living tradition of the community. If concepts become isolated from their lived surroundings, they can become idolized. When that happens, we are left with these dead concepts and no way to grow. Unless concepts are enfleshed, they are of no use. Values and Unity Pope Francis says that all values are non-negotiable. Division occurs when values that should be together end up separated. A good example of this is the Protestant/Catholic split, in which one side represents the importance of the personal and the other side represents the importance of the institutional. That’s why we can learn from those on both sides of these historic splits; we can learn from what they do well, and learn to correct what we might do poorly. Currently, the Church is undergoing a split between progressives and reactionaries. Those in both of these camps tend to appeal to their own personal judgment and discernment and use this personal discernment against the Church. Progressives appealed to conscience against Humanae Vitae, and reactionaries are currently appealing to their own understanding of Church teaching to reject Pope Francis. Such moves further division and destroy the chance for authentic dialogue. To keep this from happening, we need to give our own vision to the Church; that way, our vision can enrich the Church, instead of tearing it apart. That is why Pope Francis is calling for a synodal process of listening to one another during these difficult times. As Pope Francis says, all values are non-negotiable. Dialogue is not about deciding which values to drop; rather, dialogue is about coming to a deeper appreciation of the values that we share. If we cling to our own personal understanding of a particular value without taking the views of others into account, our understanding will be stunted.We can learn about our own values from other people, who may practice them better than we do. St. Augustine said that we can never exhaust the meaning of scripture because scripture is the word of God, and thus infinite. This being so, the truth is always beyond us. Too often, we think of truth as something we possess, all tacked down and finalized. Those holding such a view fear dialogue. It is seen as necessarily involving a surrender of some aspect of the truth. Instead, if we realize that we can always learn more, we will see dialogue as a quest for more truth. A Refuge from the Tyranny of the Urgent As well as dialogue, however, contemplation is needed for authentic discernment. Pope Francis says that we need a “refuge from the tyranny of the urgent”. The tyranny of the urgent can lead us to see all events merely through the lens of our own projects, our own interests. We need to be attentive to current realities, but we also need a healthy degree of separation, the ability to step back. Paradoxically, this will give us a better perspective on the events themselves. This stepping back and achieving interior silence is not opposed to dialogue; in fact, it too can be a communal project. In the practice of Lectio Divina, we pull away from the tyranny of the urgent as a group, so that we can listen to the Word of God. The Beatitudes as Values for our Time Pope Francis presents the Beatitudes as the key set of values for our time. They are central to the Christian Faith and are expanded on by Catholic Social Teaching. It is important to realize just how radical the beatitudes are. They cut against the grain of all human striving. They are extremely different from any set of merely human values. There’s a temptation to see the beatitudes as “very nice ideals”, but to look elsewhere for guides to practical action. Pope Francis, however, is telling us that they should guide our actions in the current moment. Our model is a crucified Savior, who was a “failure” in a worldly sense, and yet redeemed the world. In a similar way, the saints actually did more in the long run for the world than the practical people. Where are the worldly-wise now? What lasting values did they really achieve? We aim for a different kind of success. Even if we seem to fail, God is pouring graces on the world through us! To make Catholic Social Teaching and the Beatitudes come to life, we need to start practicing them. We need to be a community of and for the poor. We need to always put the weakest members first. What would such a community look like? If we took the principles seriously, they would radically reorder our lives. It is easy to say that we should put the poor first. In practice, however, it is often a different matter. It is hard enough to sacrifice money for the poor—even harder to sacrifice our convenience and the way we order our lives. Too often, we’re merely giving from our excess, both financially and otherwise. We offer services for the poor, but we don’t offer to bring the poor into our lives. And of course, there are many different kinds of poor. The lonely, the sick, the disabled, and the marginalized are all “poor” in their own ways. Malcolm and Peter shared some stories of how this isn’t being done, and how bureaucracy and convenience are leading to a rejection of Christ in the poor. By contrast, the Catholic Worker communities we’ve interviewed bring the poor into their hearts and homes. And many Catholics would be ready to do something similar if they were presented with the opportunity. Peter told a story of how he was attacked by a vicious dog while he was on a walking pilgrimage, and how some Catholic parishioners took him in and took care of him until he was well enough to continue traveling. St. Peter’s Basilica by Vitold Muratov, CC BY-SA 4.0; Let Us Dream Cover image, Fair Use

Episode 16 – Slave or Free Man?In a democratic society, individuals are at liberty to do what they please so long as it doesn't break an established law.  Beyond that definition, there's a thin line between being truly “free” and being burdened by sheer license.  In other words, a man who is free to do anything might often find himself incapable of NOT doing something (addiction), or incapable of ONLY doing one thing (the good).  When does that incapacity become enslavement?Chad leads the charge for liberation in this episode, and Ben follows (up to a point) with his own fire to free the captives.  The two define their terms, share their own struggles with freedom, and even dive into some Protestant-Catholic differences on the topic.  How is it that a man can be both strong and enslaved?  Is it possible that a Christian be “free from the law” and yet remain burdened by sin?  Are spiritual exercises like Exodus 90 effective means to achieving greater freedom—and can Chad sell Ben on taking such a challenge?SHOW NOTES:Exodus 90 Program:  https://exodus90.com/ Passage from the Book of Exodus:  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+1%3A8-14&version=NASB1995 Bishop Fulton Sheen quote:  https://quotefancy.com/quote/810252/Fulton-J-Sheen-Freedom-does-not-mean-that-right-to-do-whatever-we-please-but-rather-to-do Ben's reference to 1 John 2:16: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A16&version=NASB1995Fight Club quote:  https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e4ef71d0-8a35-48ba-9aa8-d70ea420db61

Before becoming the most valuable poem in American Literature, ‘A Visit From St. Nicholas' was published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel on 23rd December, 1823 - its author remaining a secret for fourteen years.The work, commonly known as ‘The Night Before Christmas', was eventually revealed to be written by philosopher and lecturer Clement Clark Moore - although, in recent years, the family of Major Henry Livingston Jr. have claimed that their ancestor was its true author.In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how the poem has influenced our perception of Santa's rotundness, but not his height; reveal the Protestant-Catholic divide deftly swerved by Moore in his setting of his story; and explore just what else the Troy Sentinel brought the world… Further Reading:• ‘'Twas The Night Before Christmas - Narrated by Michael Bublé' (Michael Bublé, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Y1IpCGHss• ‘The Mystery Behind the World's Most Famous Christmas Poem' (Mental Floss, 2016): https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26719/mystery-behind-worlds-most-famous-christmas-poem• ‘Clement Clarke Moore, American scholar and author' (Britannica): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-Clarke-MooreFor bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/RetrospectorsWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/RetrospectorsThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2021. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The difference in perception between tearing things apart, putting things back together, and peace-making versus ripping away and how does this relate to Brian Frederick's children book.Brian enjoys acting as a full-time mediator, mainly in commercial litigation disputes. Brian is also the owner of GetMediation and heads up the panel of mediators there. Brian specializes in commercial disputes of all kinds, and he brings many years' practical experience to bear with a kind ear, imparting dexterity and empathy to broker effective solutions.Brian is an accredited Mediator for Civil/Commercial and Workplace mediations. He qualified as a mediator in 2012 and has been practicing mediation ever since. Brian set up his own Commercial Mediation panel GetMediation in 2013 and is the owner and one of the senior mediators available there. GetMediation has most recently been awarded the Mediation Service of the Year Bristol 2020 prize in the Bristol Prestige Awards. Brian believes in cost-effective dispute resolution and insists that mediators on his panel are “adept at alleviating some of the particular personal animosity and bitterness which can tend to exacerbate the legal situation in commercial disputes, and pay particular attention to focus thoughts towards costs because the parties will often have a very uncompromising adversarial attitude towards each and every point at issue.”He is also an author of a children's book titled Ziggy loves Sausage.Ari Gronich0:11Welcome back to another episode of create a new tomorrow I am your host, Ari Gronich. Today I have with me, Brian McKibben. Brian is an attorney turned author of children's books; I'm going to let him tell you a little bit about that story of how he went from that transition. So, Brian, why don't you tell the audience a little bit about that transition of how you went from an attorney, who specializes in mediation to an author writing children's books. Brian McKibbin0:43Yeah. Well, first of all, I didn't expect to take that transition. When I went to school, I was always sort of funneled into this career. And I discovered I liked being what I sort of call an anti-lawyer more than a lawyer. So that's why I became a mediator because you're trying to put people back together rather than in litigation, you're essentially you're trying to tear them apart, it's in your best interest as a lawyer to keep the fight going, because you keep getting paid. It's in the client's best interest to settle the case because that's what they're going to do in the end. I find I didn't like fighting. I liked peace-making. And so that was a transition in my own career. And I think with that mindset, I've always wanted to be a writer. But when I was younger, I thought I would write thrillers. And I guess with that, more sort of serious adult mindset that you might say, is in the lawyer's typical head, when I became a mediator, it's about shifting perspective. And generally, about bringing happiness. And I think that all sort of coincided them with the little thing that happened to be in locked time,  Ari Gronich2:01Component lock time, somebody may not know what that means.  Brian McKibbin2:05Sorry, that's just my accent lock time. And during the pandemic, like when we were all told to stay home, some local kids decided to cheer us up, I guess. And they would, they would ring the bell, you know, the little game children play ring the doorbell and run away. But when you came to answer the door, the first time I came was very surprising, because I looked down. And there was a little bouquet of flowers. So, they left these little flowers that they picked, and they'd, they tied them up with a bit of sort of coarse grass. And, and then they came back over a few days, and it became apparent that they wanted to play a little game and, and for me to talk to them, so I did. And then gradually, these little heads would come out from where they were hiding. And we play this game that I could pretend not to see them and still talk to them, you know as if I'm talking to thin air. And this went on for a few months. And when I was taking walks, we have some woodland behind where we live, the idea of a story came to me and so I started to write this book called Flower fairies as a result of this sort of little inciting incident. And then I got, I got a bit of writer's block. With that after a while, and luckily enough for me, one of my characters in the story had this pet accident. And one day the story about one of the adventures of the little dog came to me instead. And that one flew, I'm still writing the other book, it's still in development, I guess you'd say. But Ziggy the dachshund and was born and I've written about half a dozen of those stories now. Two of them are published, and there's a sequence ready to go. So that was the transition really, partly mindset, and then partly a little bit of luck, I guess, and a little bit of inspiration from some of the little kids that, you know, came like, like the flower fairies to deliver some flowers for us, and cheer us up. Ari Gronich4:13That's actually pretty cool. I like hearing those stories of what people have done during this particular craziness, to create joy and create happiness. And so that's really cool. What I'm interested in what I talked to you about a lot in our pre-interview is the differences in perception between tearing things apart, putting things back together piece making versus, you know, ripping away and how does that relate to your book? Yes, but more importantly for me is like let's dive deep into the perceptions and the things that people, you know, get benefit from in this time of like, the world feels like it's being torn apart and has been brought together. So Brian McKibbin5:12Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of fighters in there. When you're a litigation attorney, as I said before, you know that the profit motive is always there. So, when you talk to a client, they have a dispute, you're always telling them about a, a kind of fictitious best-case scenario, you know, ultimately, that that's why there's so many, you know, Court steps settlements because it's only in tacouple of days before the trial that your lawyer starts to level with you. And then everyone's disappointed to find that they're not going to score, you know, 100 nil here, that there's going to be a compromise. And I think, you know, the way that the world it feels at the moment as a wee bit like that, where there's just so much angst and so many people seeing so many things that aren't, you know, that aren't true or aren't verifiably true, and there's a lot of disinformation. And I think people are probably quiet, I know, I am quite anangst ridden at times, when I'm watching the news. In mediation, if I was, if I was sort of mediating that kind of situation, it's, it's about trying to change your headspace, and have a different perspective on things. And a little bit like in the books, to find that little bit of joy somewhere, because it's always there. It just depends hon ow you think about a particular event. I mean, obviously, there can be just events where it's a complete catastrophe. So, I'm not really talking about something that, you know, like a bereavement perhaps, or something like that, but something that's made you angry, is something that you can choose, you can choose your reaction you can choose if you're going to go apoplectic, and then start yelling at the television and throwing things at it. Or you can just let it be. And, you know, and get on with your life, you know, in disputes. That's, that's a picture that I try and paint for my clients that if they can,if they can reconcile the anger that they're feeling with a different perception of what could happen later today,when they walk out of the door with like, the rancor and fight the weight of this dispute. Doesn't the second thing feel better? You know, being able to go on with your precious life, because it's finite. And, you know, how many days more, are you going to waste months for years and money. Ari Gronich7:48Let me see, let me take you to a dark place. Okay, let's take you to a dark place. This is something that has been going on for centuries. Sure. And I'll give you a little background. So, I had a roommate, who was a Palestinian Muslim, and she was like my sister, I'm Jewish. She and I would have amazing conversations, we would get into the meat and deep and dark and dirty and in the conflict, right? But we had the perspective of you're my sister, I'm your brother. And no matter what we say here, right, we will always be connected that way. And so, we had a way of speaking to each other that was kind and yet forceful in our own belief system. So, we were able to get these things out. So, my question to you would be, let's go to that kind of a big picture if you were mediating the, you know, Palestinian Israeli conflict, right, something that's been going on for decades, that nobody seems to have been able to get through. And I'm saying this because I didn't want to talk. I don't want to say mask versus not mask or Vax versus faxed, right. COVID versus not COVID conspiracy versus, you know, the industry is aamazing you know, perfect and would never try to hurt you. I'm not talking about the really deep stuff. I'm talking about just this conflict. Brian McKibbin9:26Yeah, just this little conflict. Ari Gronich9:29Just this little one. So, let's mediate this in a way that brings both sides together. Let's look at what would you do as a mediator in that situation? Brian McKibbin9:41I think one of the skills the mediator tries to bring is to talk to people in a way that makes sense to them to help them reframe stuff to help them think about perspective but also to get their bbuy-inthe mediator is sincere. So, it's a nice example you've picked for me because I grew up in Northern Ireland. So, the Protestant-Catholic conflict there is quite similar and, you know, in many ways, it really is, you know, it's a lot of people look in on the, on the Palestinian Israeli conflict and see it as a Jewish Muslim thing. And there's an element of that. But my sense is that it's not just about that or you know there's a lot of nnuances the same thing in Northern Ireland, people think that it's just Protestants fighting Catholics but this there's a big proportion of people in the middle, rather than the people that you see shouting and fighting it either end. So, what I think I would do to start with is to try and reflect toth we call them participants in mediation, not parties,because party is slightly pejorative for it or divisive. So, I would talk to my participants each separately, because it's part of the ttrust-building rather than throw them into mediators different this, I don't favor throwing them straight into a room together, because I feel that a lot of tension and a lot of anxiety that they're going to feel initially. So, I come and talk to them. And hopefully ,I lower the temperature a little bit with each of them. And so tthat'show I would start is to try and reflect my own experience and help them hope, see that maybe I can have a useful perspective on their problem. And I've also some lived experience that they can, believe and that might make it worthwhile listening to me, and what am I trying to say to them. That's how it starts anyway. Ari Gronich11:59Right. So, let's go deeper ointothat. So, the first idea is to gather understanding, and understanding in the mediator's point of view is going to calm tension. So, right. So, the first idea is the middle party that has no, say in the situation, no steak, so to speak, is going to be the learning phase. So, we're learning and understanding about the other party. Now, what's next?  Brian McKibbin12:36Well, that phase goes into seeks sort of neatly into listening to what they want to tell you. Part of the process at that point is for them to feel heard. So, you listen, and you would reflect what they're saying so that they can understand that you're hearing them. And also, that your understanding of the same. Ari Gronich13:03That technique is called active listening, correct?  Brian McKibbin13:08Yep. Yes. And from there, you would start to have an element where you would ask for permission to play devil's advocate. And while when you're doing that, then you would be going through a process of trying to put into their head, the way that they having listened to them, trying to help them, imagine how the people in the other room are feeling and how the sense of their anger about whatever it is, is quite similar to that. And in talking to them about their ideal solution. And then trying to elicit some sense of, I hesitate to say sympathy, ultimately, you want some sympathy in a charged situation like that. So, it might take a while to get there, but at least a little bit of empathy. Yes.  Ari GronichRight. So, do you want sympathy or empathy?  Brian McKibbinWell, empathy will come first. In the end ,sympathy doesn't matter so much because well, it depends what solution you're looking for, you know, if you want you kto now, if you want the sort of solution where one set of people on one side marry their daughter to the other said, son, you probably need sympathy. But if you just want people to live together a little bit of empathy will do certainly will go a long way to get into some sort of agreed solution.  Ari Gronich14:50Okay so let's just I'm just breaking it down into the bits, right. So, you the learning about, we do the understanding this situation we do the asking of questions and repeating back the act of listening, repeating back what you're hearing. When a conflict like Palestine, Israel, right, we kind of have an idea of how people are feeling on one side, they're feeling rdepressedand oppressed and controlled, and like their land is being taken from them. On the other side, you got people who feel like, their entire world is always being attacked and destroyed. And they need a safe haven to be able to live and not, you know, have people wanting to kill them all the time. Right? So, you have these two different places where people are, and both sides vare ery valid. Right? So, now we have an understanding. Okay, so next, what where do you get to? How do you get from whining about the,the problems right? Into collaborating for solutions and successes?      Brian McKibbin16:01Yeah. well, you would have asked them a little bit further backward about what an ideal solution will look like. And then you'll have reality tested and play devil's advocate with that a little bit so that you might have knocked some of the totally unrealistic parts of what the ideal solution a bit like, well, you know, if you're talking about litigation, it comes down to numbers, but it'll help to not guide some of what, you know, the fantasy elements, the lawyer might have told them that we can get you because it's not mean, you know, we, you know, can go on to trial, and who knows, you might have the perfect judge. But in reality, it's very unlikely, you would sort of try to narrow that ideal solution into something that begins to vaguely look like something the other side could at least look at without totally freaking out. And you'll be generally, as a mediator, I'll be going from the room with the Palestinian people, to the room with the Jewish people. And as the process goes along, and we're talking about solutions, you would start to get to the place where you're hoping that they'll start to make an offer. And then you will start to talk to the other room about this offer. And the first offer will obviously be a bridge or two too far. But, you know, you put it to them totally neutrally, because I like to say as a mediator, I'm not. I'm not in favor. I'm not against anybody. I'm Omni.  Ari Gronich17:48Right, you have no steak. Brian McKibbin17:49Yeah, totally no steak. I'm not in any way biased. So, I will just put the offer, this is what they've said. Occasionally, I will ask them, Is it okay? To tell them this snippet of information, this sort of, if you like, I'm the neutral insider in both camps, so I can, I can help. And that's part of the negotiation process. And hopefully, if both rooms really want to find a solution, and again, that's kind of crucial you, you start the whole process with getting agreement that we're both here today to work really hard to find the solution, whatever it is. Ari Gronich18:33Okay, so now I'm going to take it a little bit further. So, you have two rooms of people with like, five people in each room. Say, Okay, so four of the people in each of those rooms, really like the solutions. One in each of those rooms is going to sabotage is like they're looking to sabotage. How do you get those people involved in the solution process? Because what I wee is like, you have the people who really want peace. The politicians,and the people who want power are the ones who have stifled in some way or another, the peace, and this is the systems in America, black and white. This is the systems everywhere else; you know that that divide us. So, when I'm looking at a group of people, and I see somebody who doesn't want to compromise who doesn't want to have an affect of solution, how do you create a solution that that is long lasting? When there's like those little elements on either side that that can't seem to let go.     Brian McKibbin19:58Sure, I mean, that that is the million-dollar question in our scenario here, isn't it? You know, when I'm litigating when I'm mediating litigation, it always comes down to numbers. And that's very convenient. Because that can be, you can make that as a sort of a non-emotive thing. It's just, you know, it's a trade. In our scenario, here, it's very difficult to somebody is going to be totally intransigent. I mean, mediation relies on goodwill, it's a process of building that goodwill, for people to engage in that if somebody's going to completely. If they're not going to engage with process at all, it's hard for you to move that, that final stone, I guess, the techniques that you would use is try to, try to gain their agreement, their agreement, I lied with the other people about what sorts of things they want, because that's a good technique. Insofar as, once people have stated a position I lied in, in front of people with witnesses, they don't like to go back on that. So, if you can move them towards some sort of common ground with the rest of their peers, then you might get some ultimately, though, if they're, if they're sued again, they're never going to want to come out. It's, it's difficult. And I guess, in our scenario, you know, that's kind of where we are. Having said that, you know, if you take northern islands as an example, you get, I mean, we northerner islands, you know, that it's still a naughty thing. If you, if you see at the moment, the still shenanigans go on, and but nevertheless, you know, the, the piece happened there where people stopped killing each other, so, or for the most part, at least. So, you know, that that was a massive, massive step forward. And it really required Ari Gronich22:12How did how did that happen? Brian McKibbin22:15Well, it happened over a period of years. So, the mediation idea is designed to happen in one day, I think that would be a, that would be a big, big trick to pull off in our scenario here. So, over a period of a much longer time, the trust that needed to be built was built in so far as each of those sides felt it was possible for them to make a move beyond anything they could have imagined before. So, for the IRA that would have been giving up their guns, under explosives and having that verifiably done on the other side. On the union aside, it was believing that was going to happen, and you know, they weren't going to, you know, they weren't when I was a child, you know, used to get these things they call all the terminology around the troubles even the troubles itself is so sort of Irishly euphemistic you know, the troubles, it sounds like a bit of an argument that you had with somebody over the fence, we used to have these things called bomb scares. So essentially, that was where somebody had planted a bomb in a shopping ccenteror something, and it was evacuated in a semi panic and you run away, just a bomb scare, I can remember things like that. So anyway, the other side were brought to a point where they could believe that those sorts of things and you know, the violence would stop, and they believed that it would. And then they had to also agree, or come to mindset that they, they were willing to, it's all about compromise the settlements, not about getting everything, you want, if it's going to happen. It's about finding something you can live with. And in the end, both sides agreed that it was it was worth people not dying, that that was a bigger prize than it was to hold on to weapons and an ideology that that required violence to achieve the result instead of a democratic means. On the other side, it was about trust that the democratic means was going to be the way forward rather than the violence, I guess. And that the process all the way along was taking them to that place where they could climb out of the trench and see the clear land in front of them instead of you know, this this obscured view that they had that made it difficult for them to believe. It was possible to get out of the trench. Ari Gronich25:03So, you know, here's like the bottom line of what I hear is the incentive. What are the incentives that you're offering for me to stop my behavior? And I must have gotten that right. So, if the incentives are the things that get people to change, right, let's go back to a mask or no mask like that, or some people, they will absolutely there's no incentive that you could give somebody who doesn't want to wear a mask to wear it. There's no incentive that you could give somebody who's afraid for their lives, and wears two or three masks, just to take off the mask right at that point. So how do we get those people who are never going to agree, never going to understand each other never going to be on the same page, to at least be in a place of understanding and not trying to control one or the other. Right? This is a big one these days, this ccanceledculture this where they call it virtue ssignaling I'm or morality ssignaling and so it's like, I got vaccinated, I didn't get vaccinated. I'm going to be really excited about having gotten vaccinated, I'm going to be really excited about having not done it right. This is virtue ssignaling How do we get these two people to just say, Yeah, you do you and I do me and we could both be really excited about who each other is, instead of the way that it's been. Brian McKibbin28:23Yeah. I mean, it's, I think, for me, it's, it comes back to the empathy again, you know, when you look at issues like that, or I mean, that the last American election was very like that, wasn't it? It seemed to this last sort of five years or so seems to have been a period of time where it's very polarized, you know, it's an either or, on whichever side you're standing, you know, the other side is demonized. And, and we seem to have lost that that empathy. You know, it's I don't know, whether it's the age that we live in, and the internet makes it easy to comment. And because you're not speaking to somebody face to face, you can say quite nasty things on your keyboard that you'd never say or, you know, unless you're really drunk or very mad. You ever say to somebody, somebody's face, unless you're expecting a fight, you know, a little bit like you do in your car, I guess, you know, you're sort of insulated mess. So, you can swear somebody in your past and there's just no consequence. I guess this is the thing. Anyway, the lack of empathy that I think that we, we have more often the past just as a natural sort of way of being. I think if we're going to alleviate this polarization, you know, we all have common interests and shared goals mean, in terms of masks or not masks, I mean, one place you could start is that, you know, I was gonna say nobody wants anybody to die, I suppose sometimes, at the far ends of the polarization, that's maybe not all, totally accurate. But by and large, you know, nobody wants anybody else to die. So and so that's, that's maybe something you can agree on. And I guess that's the sort of thing that you start to try and put together as a set of things that everybody can agree that, you know, we want our kids to be safe, and we want them schools to be safe, and workplaces and for people not to be in fear. And people don't generally like to fight, you know. So, there's a lot of shared values around stuff like that, but it all of them require a little bit of empathy. Because if you can't find any shred of, of something, or you could care at all about the other person, it's going to be difficult to stop that that sort of animosity, I think.   Ari Gronich31:15Right. So, as a mediator, you know, you've got to be well aware of human emotions and the things that drive people forward. This show is all about creating a new tomorrow and activating our vision for a better world. You did that when you, you know, got caught up in the lockup and decided I want to become an author, while I'm sitting here waiting to you know, have things to mediate. And so, you wrote a book about a children's book about kind of what you do in mediation. So, why don't you just like, let's talk about kids, coz kids are going through amazing amounts of bullying, online, cyber bullying, and things like that. And I want to get to that kid, because you did write a book about, you know, children's books. So how do we teach? I have a seven-year-old, how do I teach my son? He's already pretty empathetic, right? But how do I teach him how to mediate in his own mind? Right? How to create that mediation mindset in his own mind. Now, so that when he's an adult, he it's in second nature to him to be in that state of empathy? how could other parents do that as well? Brian McKibbin32:44I think, um, I mean, I just said, children are much better disposed and some adults to forgive and forget, and, you know, to make friends again, you know, you can see when they, when they fall out and have a fight, you know, they can be best friends in a few minutes. Maybe you have an ice cream or something. I guess, with that, as an example, you know, it's a shared experience that brings them back together and makes them happy again, I think, I would say for children, it's very good for them in general to, you know, to excite their curiosity about things. And one of the ways to do that, is to have them imagine how other people feel about this, or that. And I think that's the sort of headspace that you want them to inhabit, because that's the kind of place where, if, you know, if they're angry at someone, but they can start to perceive why that person may have acted the way that they did, and have a little bit of empathy or even sympathy with that, then they can't remain engaged with the anger and I think somewhere there is the answer to helping them be, you know, better adults and calmer, gentler, happier, people. Ari Gronich34:19Awesome. So, talk to us a little bit about, you know, the few lessons in this book Ziggy loves sausage, and you know, I want to end I always end the show with three tips and tricks and things that people can do to activate their vision to make a better world to have a better world. And so, why don't you talk about Ziggy love sausage in the end the philosophies and things that will help others to create their new tomorrow and activate their vision for a better world. Brian McKibbin34:50Okay, thank you. Well, Ziggy love sausages is about. It's about a little quest that this stacks and goes on but ultimately, he goes on it because he makes a promise to a friend to help them right along the way he has temptations to overcome. That's the tasty food stuffs that he has to ignore to, to get his goal, he has a little help getting his goal. Because basically, because he's a good hearted little creature, and there's a, there's a fairy that decides he deserves a little bit of help for that, then when he accomplishes the goal, and he returns this item to its rightful owner, again, ignoring the temptations along the way back, he's rewarded with a sausage, and the payoff line is that there's nothing the sausage dog loves more than sausages, even though he loves all this other stuff. So, it's about keeping your promises and being a good person, I guess. And the idea that there's happiness in, in that kind of mindset, you know, it's similar, I guess, to, you know, Christmas, the joys and the giving stuff rather than receiving it really, isn't it? So, I guess that's the lesson in the book, and something that I hope parents would want the kids to take away that, you know, selflessness is better than selfishness. Ari Gronich36:31Okay, so ffulfillmentfrom giving as awesome. Is there anything else that you'd like to leave the audience with? How they could, you know, maybe better mediate themselves? How can they understand themselves more, thereby understand others more? What kind of questions can they ask themselves to get to that point? So, I just want to give the audience a little bit more love so they can really activate their visions. Brian McKibbin37:03Well, I mean, ultimately, we all want to be happy. And I think that, you know, we spend a lot of time in the world today, looking at screens and seeing, I mean, the news wants to you know, the news is, is the bad news industry, really not the good news industry, isn't it, there's, it's, you know, you get higher ratings with the angst than you do with sunflowers. I would say to people that I think one thing is true. And with the kids as well as to try and go outside and see nature, because nature just is natures got, you know, no angst, if you go into the forest, the trees are, are there and they're magnificent, and beautiful, and they're not. They're not fighting, it's very difficult to be angry in a forest after a while. If you're with your child, the child has to start to be fascinated with nature and forget about his smartphone and his computer games. And I think that's, that's a great way just go in and walk in nature. And it's, it's hard to hold on to that anger. And in the doing of that your head will clear a little as well of the angst or the anger or whatever it was that that made you go outside to get a bit of relief from that. And I think I think we still do that. I've been trying to do that every day, since the pandemic happened, and I find it really useful. That that would be my top to go out into nature. So, its good. Ari Gronich38:39Thank you so much for being here, Brian. I really appreciate all your, your wisdom, your ability to pivot and show that resilience as well in the face of, you know, what we've been going through is amazing and commendable. And so, I really appreciate you being on the show. Brian McKibbin38:57It's been my great pleasure. Thank you. 

Use the good china, drink champagne from your special glasses, use your wedding knife to cut cake for afternoon tea - just celebrate every little thing you can, because you never know what is around the corner.It's some of the best advice we could hope for after twenty months of never knowing what we can do tomorrow, let alone in a month's time. Jan Goodieson is a celebrant who speaks of such celebrations in the Spring issue of Mildura Living magazine. She's also one of these humble people who are befuddled when someone wants to "interview" them with claims of no real story to tell.Rubbish. Everyone has a story, and whence we add a glass of champagne, the stories will flow as well as the bubbles.Jan talks about her Scottish heritage, her parents blended marriage, meaning Protestant & Catholic, her sister (Sister Phillipa - Anne McMillian) teaching at St. Mary's in Robinvale, and the importance of celebrating every day.Brad Fyfe of Solunar in Mildura supplied lunch for us at The Workshop Creative which was delicious and we'll be talking to him in a couple of weeks time, but not before the team come to Robinvale / Euston for a tour!Watch out for women on tour next Friday and Saturday in The Vale.

Joe Schmid and I discuss what role theoretical virtues play in the interpretation of scripture and settling doctrinal disputes between Protestants and Catholics. 

At the heart of the division between Protestants and Catholics is the disagreement over the doctrine of justification. According to Catholic theology, justification is believed to be a lifelong process in which the sinner becomes intrinsically righteous, to the extent that he or she cooperates with grace. On the other side, Protestants assert that this ends up confusing justification with sanctification. Whereas sanctification is a process, justification is a once-for-all declaration of right standing with God that is ultimately rooted in Christ's perfect righteousness. On this program, the hosts walk through all the issues involved in this historic debate (originally aired 08-21-16). __________ For the month of October, become a partner and receive the classic book, The Pearl of Christian Comfort, as a special thank you. Just head over to whitehorseinn.org/podcastpartner. __________ Sign up for our newsletter and receive our free digital download collection on Justification - whitehorseinn.org/newsletter.

A new MP3 sermon from The Bahnsen Project is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 36 - Protestant, Catholic, and Jew Radio Debate, Part 2 (36 of 62) Subtitle: Ethics Individual Speaker: Greg L. Bahnsen Broadcaster: The Bahnsen Project Event: Teaching Date: 3/29/2021 Bible: Colossians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 5:10 Length: 52 min.

A new MP3 sermon from The Bahnsen Project is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 35 - Protestant, Catholic, and Jew Radio Debate (35 of 62) Subtitle: Ethics Individual Speaker: Greg L. Bahnsen Broadcaster: The Bahnsen Project Event: Teaching Date: 3/29/2021 Bible: Colossians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 5:10 Length: 60 min.

Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain’s exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.Crowds including children as young as 12 or 13 clashed across a concrete “peace wall” in west Belfast that separates a British loyalist Protestant neighborhood from an Irish nationalist Catholic area. Police fired rubber bullets at the crowd, and nearby a city bus was hijacked and set on fire.Northern Ireland has seen sporadic outbreaks of street violence since the 1998 Good Friday peace accord ended “the Troubles” — decades of Catholic-Protestant bloodshed over the status of the region in which more than 3,000 people died.But Police Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said Wednesday’s mayhem “was at a scale we have not seen in recent years.” He said 55 police officers had been injured over several nights of disorder and it was lucky no one had been seriously hurt or killed.There was a further outbreak of violence Thursday night in the nationalist Springfield Road area of Belfast, where youths threw stones at police, who responded with a water cannon blast.Britain’s split from the EU has highlighted the contested status of Northern Ireland, where some people identify as British and want to stay part of the U.K., while others see themselves as Irish and seek unity with the neighboring Republic of Ireland, an EU member.Unrest has erupted over the past week — largely in loyalist, Protestant areas — amid rising tensions over post-Brexit trade rules and worsening relations between the parties in the Protestant-Catholic power-sharing Belfast government.U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the unrest, saying “the way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality.” He sent Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis to Belfast for talks with the region's political leaders.White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration was concerned by the violence, “and we join the British, Irish and Northern Irish leaders in their calls for calm.”Meanwhile, Northern Ireland’s Belfast-based assembly and government held emergency meetings Thursday and called for an end to the violence.First Minister Arlene Foster, of the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, warned that “when politics are perceived to fail, those who fill the vacuum cause despair.” Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill, of Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, called the violence “utterly deplorable.”Despite the united message, Northern Ireland's politicians are deeply divided, and events on the street are in many cases beyond their control.As many predicted it would, the situation has been destabilized by Britain’s departure from the EU — after almost 50 years of membership — that became final on Dec. 31.A post-Brexit U.K.-EU trade deal has imposed customs and border checks on some goods moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. The arrangement was designed to avoid checks between Northern Ireland and Ireland because an open Irish border has helped underpin the peace process built.But unionists says the new checks amount to the creation of a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. — something they fear undermines the region’s place in the United Kingdom.The latest disturbances followed unrest over the long Easter weekend in pro-British unionist areas in and around Belfast and Londonderry, also known as Derry, that saw cars set on fire and debris and gasoline bombs hurled at police officers.Some politicians and police have accused outlawed paramilitary groups — which remain a force in working class communities — of inciting young people to cause mayhem. They expressed outrage that a new generation was being exposed t...

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Jonathan Reimer, an Assistant Professor of History at Eastern University, to talk about how we can talk, intelligently, accurately, and cordially about the Reformation. Dr. Reimer has some incredible insights about the roots of the Reformation, the Catholic response, and how we can best dialogue, across the Protestant/Catholic divide, about this unfortunate and divisive moment in Church history. And, how we can begin to build bridges! This is a fantastic episode for anyone who wants to know how to properly speak about the Reformation. You'll definitely learn something new! For more, visit The Cordial Catholic. Send your feedback to cordialcatholic@gmail.com. For more information about sponsoring the show, keeping this podcast going, and helping me to continue to deliver quality content please visit the Patreon page.  Even $1 or $2 a month can go a long way to helping make this podcast sustainable and will give you access to a special Patron-Only podcast featuring behind-the-scenes content and early access to upcoming material. If you can give $5/mo or more you'll also be entered into monthly draws for fantastic books hand-picked by me.If you'd like to give a one-time donation to The Cordial Catholic, you can visit the PayPal page.Thank you to those already supporting the show!Newsletter pre-roll. Producers Post-Roll: Stephen, Eli, Tom, Kelvin, Susan, and Eyram.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/cordialcatholic)

Is James the brother of Jesus? Is the virgin birth possible? And why do Catholics care what Mary and Joseph got up to after Jesus was born? In this dramatic and fast-paced episode, Alex and Katie start to get into one of the most heated discussions in all of Protestant/Catholic disputes- the perpetual virginity of Mary.

In the Second Vatican Council’s Unitatis Redintegratio (Restoration of Unity – The Decree on Ecumenism 21 Nov 1964), the Council fathers spoke of the shared heritage among all Christians. The Council fathers wrote as follows: “On the other hand, Catholics must gladly acknowledge and esteem the truly Christian endowments from our common heritage which are to be found among our separated brethren.” In passing, the Council introduced this very rich term “common heritage” (commune patrimonium) to describe the common ground shared by Catholic and Protestant Christians. The Second Vatican Council fathers encouraged Catholics to recognize the riches of Christ’s work in the lives of their separated brethren stating “It is right and salutary to recognize the riches of Christ and virtuous works in the lives of others who are bearing witness to Christ, sometimes even to the shedding of their blood. For God is always wonderful in His works and worthy of all praise.” Join us this week as we briefly cover various aspects of the heritage shared by all Christians.   To comment on this show or provide feedback, please navigate to https://catholicheritageshow.com/episode82   The Catholic Heritage is devoted to helping Catholic Christians better understand the history, teachings and culture of their Catholic faith so that they can better love and serve Christ, the Church and their neighbors. Dr. Erik Estrada is a Catholic scholar who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and specializes in the history of Christianity and historical theology. He also completed a licentiate (S.T.L) in theology and patristic science at the Augustinianum Patristic Institute in Rome and a S.T.B. at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. 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Who was St. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine? In this episode, we take a look at the life and work of Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) who was arguably the most learned Catholic theologian and apologist of the sixteenth century. In this mobile edition we talk about the definite impact that Robert Bellarmine had on Protestant-Catholic conversations about the vexing questions of the early modern era, namely, the authority of the pope, the sufficiency of Scripture and the question of justification by faith alone. Join us this week as we discuss the life and work of this extremely important saint and doctor of the church.   To comment on this show or provide feedback, please navigate to https://catholicheritageshow.com/episode69   The Catholic Heritage is devoted to helping Catholic Christians better understand the history, teachings and culture of their Catholic faith so that they can better love and serve Christ, the Church and their neighbors. Dr. Erik Estrada is a Catholic scholar who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and specializes in the history of Christianity and historical theology. 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We are really leaning into our Christian/Religious backgrounds lately, which feels good. It's kind of like a runner going for a jog after being cooped up for a long time. This is the arena where we really get to flex our brains (please ladies, no swooning). After discussing the craft beverages and giving a few important announcements, we jump into the topic. Brandon poses the question that since Protestants and Eastern Orthodox haven't gone away, like the early heresies, are they then valid and equal? There are so many on both sides working to disqualify the other, the question of why still bicker about it all after 400 years (or 1000 for the Eastern Orthodox)? This is a large topic and we tried to keep it a semi-surface level. The reason being, these topics are not stand alone. They touch many different principles that we cannot satisfy all of them and then circle back to the main topic. Over the next few podcasts, we'll continue to work through some of the tangential issues that make us question the validity and equality of each of the Christian traditions (well, neither of us know much about Orthodox, so we'll probably focus more on the Protestant/Catholic perspective). There are a couple of good life lessons to pull from the discussion. 1) Control the conversation, and 2) give the other person the benefit of the doubt. Our motto for this podcast is to Debate Without Hate. It is possible, folks, to have a meaningful conversation with those who think differently than you. Give it a listen. If there is something that strikes a cord with you, please share, comment on social media, send us an email, how ever you want to get a hold of us.

In this week of Equipped, join the discussion regarding other Christian Denominations or Confessions.  How can we know if an organization is genuinely Christian and “on the same team,” or an opportunity for sharing the Orthodox Gospel of Jesus?   The post Equipped Week 8: Protestant Catholic Orthodox appeared first on Faith Community Church Lakeside.

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Fuller Theological Seminary product and former Baptist pastor Kenneth Hensley joins Marcus Grodi to look at one of the main verses some Bible-only Christians use to try and prove that Catholicism is unbiblical.  Are Catholics violating a core teaching of Jesus if they call priests ‘father?’  If so, does that also mean we sin by calling anyone ‘rabbi,’ ‘teacher,’ ‘master,’ or even ‘mister?’  In our ongoing exploration of hard verses in the Bible, Marcus and Ken dig into this passage, which has long been the focus of debate in Protestant-Catholic conversations. Ken is online at kennethhensley.com.

Prof Colm Lennon (NUI Maynooth) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. Protestant-Catholic relations in seventeenth century Ireland - a case study of St Audoens parish, Dublin.

Summary of today's show: Our Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, and Gregory Tracy look at the news headlines of the week, including reaction to the launch of Phase 1 of the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan; George Weigel's lecture this week on Evangelical Catholicism; the new and improved Pilot Catholic Directory; the new annual report for the Archdiocese; and the March for Life and Roe v. Wade anniversary Listen to the show: Watch the show via live video streaming or a recording later: Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott Today's guest(s): Gregory Tracy, managing editor of the Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston Links from today's show: Some of the stories discussed on this show will be available on The Pilot's and The Anchor's websites on Friday morning. Please check those sites for the latest links. Today's topics: Disciples in Mission, George Weigel; Pilot Catholic Directory; Annual Report; March for Life 1st segment: Scot Landry welcomed everyone to the show and ask Susan Abbott about a gathering her office is organizing tonight. She said for the Year of Faith they're going out into parishes for a series of events that attract catechists for inspiration and information. They have a talk on the Year of Faith and then break into groups to work on skills and methods for lower grades and high school grades. Scot welcomed back Greg Tracy who was away last week on vacation with his wife. He comes back very tanned. A top story in this week's Pilot is some reaction to the announcement of the Phase 1 parishes for the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan. The story interviewed Fr. John Sheridan at St. James in Salem, where four parishes are in one collaborative. Greg Tracy said Fr. Sheridan said he's looking forward to the pastoral planning process and is confident the parishes will work together well because they are already working closely together on some initiatives. He was happy that there is now a plan, which Greg said is not untypical of priests in the Archdiocese. Before the pastoral plan, the problem of allocating priests and resources was handled on an ad hoc basis. Scot noted that like all the pastor of the Phase 1 parishes, Fr. Sheridan had to submit his resignation. Pastors and parishes in Phase 1 chose a path of uncertainty for the good of the Church. Susan said Fr. Sheridan says it's not a question of demotion, but that as a priest he has given his life for the good of the Church. Fr. Sheridan also speaks of parish identity. Susan said people here have a very deep sense of identity with the parish. Yet in the pastoral planning, Fr. Sheridan believes one parish identity will not dominate. He also spoke of the diversity of population and he said that music is a way to express that diversity. Scot said next week the show will cover in more depth the kickoff of Phase 1 training at the Pastoral Center, which will give the same training to Central Ministries' staff that parishes will receive to help them understand and appreciate what they'll go through. The employees are going through the training in two groups. Fr. Paul Soper, Director of Pastoral Planning, wrote on about the first day: We started the day with Mass. Then the Chancellor, John Straub, gave us a witness talk. Drs. Angela and David Franks, from TINE and Saint John's Seminary, followed that with a talk called “The Founding of the Church and the Beginning of Evangelization.” Bishop Kennedy came next, with “The History of Evangelization.” Then the Franks again, with “Holy Scripture: Testimony to Faith and Human Reason.” Then, after a lunch break, Michael Lavigne spoke on “Keeping Christ at the Center.” Finally, Mary Ann McLaughlin spoke on “Prayer, Sacraments, and Grace.” Scot encouraged listeners to follow this blog as it documents this very important process. they noted that 120 people is the workable capacity for a training like this at the Pastoral Center. Also in the Pilot is a summary of George Weigel's address at a lecture at St. Columbkille Parish in Brighton, sponsored by St. John's Seminary and the Year of Faith office. Susan said it's an interesting talk and she was thrilled to see that the Pilot article summarized the talk for readers. Scot said he first thought that Evangelical Catholicism was going to be about a Protestant-Catholic connection, but instead the book and the talk were about the Church's mission and how Vatican II outlined the reform of the Church so she could be more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ than she's been. The Church has always been reforming herself to be more faithful and effective to the mission of evangelization. Susan said evangelical is a connection to the New Evangelization. One of Weigel's points was a call to constant conversion and Susan said that echoes what Bishop Arthur Kennedy said in the first session of the Catholic Faith Essentials course on the continuum of conversion. Also in the Pilot this week is a story about the 2013 edition of the Pilot Catholic Directory and how it has reduced the number of pages while keeping the same amount of information. Greg also noted that they've managed to get the directory out earlier than usual. Sometimes it doesn't get out until March. Scot said that's partly because of the number of organizations that have to report and they've managed to streamline the reporting, replacing paper forms with online reporting. Greg added that Antonio Enrique, editor of the Pilot and the Directory, did an immense of work automating the collection and collating of data. Scot noted that the reduction in size came from changes in layout and examination of the best practices in such reporting across the country. The panel discussed the efficiency of using a printed directory over a website or searching Google. Greg said if you're looking for a retreat center, you could Google “retreat center Boston” and get dozens of dubious results or you can look in the directory to get a listing for which you can be confident. Susan said the sacramental index for all parishes is enormously interesting to her. But she also uses it to look up quick information. Scot said there are all kinds of interesting Catholic data like dates for Easter and how to address a letter to various members of the Church's hierarchy. To get your own copy, see your parish orcall Stephanie Rodricks at 617-779-3792. 2nd segment: Scot said an official notice was in this week's Pilot announcing Fr. Dennis Dever of St. Clement Parish in Somerville is resigning and will take Senior Priest/Retirement status, effective February 2. He has served the parish for over 20 years. Also there is a notice in the Pilot this week that the Archdiocese is releasing it's Fiscal Year 2012 annual financial report. This release has been part of Cardinal Seán's initiative for transparency and accountability. Scot said the archdiocese releases more data than any other diocese in the country. Greg noted that while some of the data is esoteric and understandable mainly for experts, it's still comforting that it's there and available and open for anyone to examine. Scot noted that the report is being published many months earlier than it has in the past. In some years it was almost one year after the fiscal year closed, because they had to get all the data in from all the parishes, schools, and associated organizations. Now they are able to release it just about six months later, which is line with other large organizations. Scot noted that the financial reports of the individual parishes and organizations are on the website as well. Scot said also in this week's Pilot is an obituary for Fr. Eugene P. Curtin, ordained in 1956. He was 81. The big story in the Church over the next week will be the 40th anniversary of the March for Life and the Roe v. Wade decision making abortion legal nationwide. Susan said she went to the first March for Life in Washington. She was the mother of three small children at the time. She left the kids with her husband and rode a bus contracted by Mass. Citizens for Life. They traveled overnight and marched during the day and then returned to Boston about 5 am. She hasn't been able to go back since then. She noted that the March has grown amazingly, especially with young people. Greg said he's been to six or seven marches over the years. Chris Pineo from the Pilot will travel with kids from the Archdiocese and Greg will travel with Cardinal Seán, who as chairman of the US bishops pro-life committee, will lead many of their events and gatherings, such as being the main celebrant at the Vigil Mass at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. He will also speak from the podium during the March on the National Mall. ALso in the Pilot is a column by Jaymie Stuart Wolfe who will be the emcee for the Assembly for Life at Fanueil Hall on Sunday, January 27. The main speaker at the event will be Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic who left that job and had a conversion to both Catholicism and pro-life. Johnson now works to help abortion clinic workers to leave the profession. Greg said once you get past all the euphemisms and see the consequences for real people in real life, that changes hearts and minds. Greg noted that the news media used to refer to fetus when speaking of abortion and unborn baby for all other pregnancies, but when the inconsistency was highlighted, they all switched to referring only to fetuses. Susan said Johnson's work is about helping clinic workers with the economic efforts of leaving their jobs and getting training and new jobs as well as the spiritual counseling and healing they will need. Scot mentioned that also locally most of the parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston will have Holy Hours for Life, cosponsored by the Office of Permanent Deacons and the Pro-Life Office. A list of local times is on the website of the . January 19 through 27, the US Bishops are asking for marking the 40th anniversary of the March for Life and Roe v. Wade. Scot noted that this week is the National Vocation Awareness Week and he encouraged all listeners to seek out and encourage men and women who may have a religious vocation.

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