Podcasts about protestants

On this episode of The Table, host Dr. Rick Morton and the full panel, Chelsea Sobolik, Emily Chapman Richards, and Herbie Newell, welcome Lauren McAfee, founder and CEO of Life Collective, PhD student in ethics and public policy, and adoptive mom of three. Lauren shares how her passion for life and adoption began at a family birthday dinner, where an empty seat at the table prompted her and her sister to ask their parents about adopting. That prayerful nudge led to her youngest sister joining the family from China and eventually to Lauren and her husband, Michael, adopting three daughters from China, India, and the U.S. She also recounts how the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case drew her into national pro-life leadership and inspired the founding of Life Collective. The panel explores the power of collective impact, why unity among like-minded ministries matters, and how churches can build networks that wrap holistic support around vulnerable women, children, and families. Lauren unpacks the Imago Dei as the foundation for both human dignity and our need for community, and she challenges Protestants to think more carefully about the ethics of reproductive technologies. With the State Department reporting intercountry adoption at an all-time low of roughly 800 in FY25, the group tackles the "PR problem" facing international adoption. Drawing on Chelsea's perspective as both an adoptee and adoptive mom, they discuss how Christians can hold grief and hope together, honor adult adoptee voices, and advocate well ahead of the 2027 Hague Special Commission on intercountry adoption. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome and panel introductions 03:40 Lauren's story: adoption, Hobby Lobby, and Life Collective 12:40 Collective impact and unity in the pro-life movement 17:14 The church as a community that lives out the call 21:50 Bioethics, reproductive technology, and the Protestant church 28:01 Intercountry adoption hits an all-time low 34:46 International adoption's PR problem 41:23 Laying down agendas for the bigger vision 47:18 Adult adoptee voices and the 2027 Hague Special Commission 49:51 Closing thoughts Pull up a chair, and subscribe, rate, and review The Table wherever you listen or watch.

“How do Catholics worship?” This question opens a discussion on the role of statues, saints, and the God in Catholic practice. Other topics include addressing concerns about differing views of Jesus with Protestant influences, the relationship between Catholic priests and Protestant outreach, and the significance of praying to saints. Join the Catholic Answers Live Club Newsletter Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Questions Covered: 02:01 – My family is protestant and my wife is being influenced by online protestant like TacoTalks who claim that Catholics preach a different Jesus. How do I respond? 15:10 – Why do most Catholics priests reject the idea of partnering with Protestants in reaching students in secular schools? 29:28 – Why do Catholics bow down and pray to statues? Is the pope infallible? 34:15 – I'm Protestant because I question the praying to saints. 50:20 – I'm in OCIA. I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and had a hard time with images. How do I go about finding a rosary?

St Paul I [brother: Stephen II] 757-767 Paul II [Pietro Barbo] 1464-1471 Paul III [Alessandro Farnese] 1534-1549 Paul IV [Giovanni Caraffa] 1555-1559 Paul V [Camillo Borghese] 1605-1621 St Paul VI [Giovanni Montini] 1963-1978   St. Paul I: brother to Pope Stephen II and succeeded him--the sort of thing that could happen in the premodern era. This was the era of Pepin the Frank, where the Frankish kingdom had just become the papacy's welcome bulwark against the conquests of the Lombards and the intrigues of the Byzantines, who also wished to take back control of as much of Italy as possible; at the end of the century this would lead to the crowning of Constantine as Western Emperor and the final decline of Byzantine influence, although the Lombard dukes would take longer to diminish in importance. Pope Paul I had a reputation for honor and personal sanctity which were still common in that era.   Paul II: elected in the fifteenth century recovery and Roman Renaissance period following the Avignon period and the schism and wild experimental councils that ended it. His uncle was Pope Eugene II and apparently he became a priest after his uncle's election. Paul II was a big spender on building projects (probably still needed at the time), carnivals and festivals, and was a supporter of the arts. However, he also found it necessary to reign in some of the more ardent Renaissance figures of his day and closed something called the Roman Academy for its excesses toward paganism and moral turpitude. He made efforts, building on the conciliar period at the beginning of the century, to bring Russia into communion with Rome and to combat the Turks who had just conquered Constantinople; these big ideas and initiatives were, sadly, not successful. The Ottomans continued expanding for centuries to come and Russia is still very much in schism with Rome.   Paul III: An aristocrat of the Farnese family, educated at Rome and Florence; knew Leo X from their youth in Florence. He was a cardinal from age 25 until his election as Pope at age 66, a period embracing the excesses of Popes Alexander and Julius/Julian and the beginning of Luther's disturbances. He was enormously influential between his intellect, education, wealth, time in the Sacred College, and diplomatic skill. Finally he was elected Pope in a time of turmoil, less than 20 years after Luther's 95 theses. By that point he was old and respected and past some questionable periods in his youth. Apparently Paul saw immediately that a new general council was needed to address the outbreak of Protestantism, but his efforts to get one started were thwarted by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's attempts to hammer out vague agreements that everyone could accept, and even more so by the power politics of the French under Francois I. He wanted the Holy Roman Empire divided and weakened, and did not care if heresy was the means to that end. In that light it is not surprising that he persecuted Protestants harshly within France itself. This became a recurring French policy and would culminate in the Thirty Years' War that devastated and practically ended the Holy Roman Empire as a united country. Pope Paul was not immune to concerns about the excessive power of the Holy Roman Emperors who had mistreated so many of his predecessors, Gregory VII in particular, but in this he may have been short-sighted; his family were traditional Guelphs who supported the Popes politically against the Emperors. In any case Paul III did get the Council of Trent started and, like Pope John XXIII, did see its initial sessions. Against Charles V's desires, they immediately set to work on some of the key issues regarding original sin, justification, and the sacraments. Meanwhile Pope Paul had begun many reforms of the Curia and Church discipline on his own initiative that after his death were taken up by the Council. He supported many of the new religious orders springing up in this era. Many see Paul III as a Pope of towering importance for the history of the Church.   Paul IV: Born of a Neapolitan noble family, brought into the Church by his uncle Cardinal Ottavino, but very attracted by the discipline of religious life. He, too, knew Leo X and was sent on diplomatic missions in his pontificate. Cardinal Giovanni, later Paul IV, eventually became a member of the priestly order set up by St. Cajetan. Because Giovanni was Bishop of Chieti, Theate in Latin, and because he was first general of the order, they became known as Theatines--a remarkably indirect reason. Protestant brigands sacked Rome in 1527 and the Theatines suffered greatly and went away to Venice for a few years, but Paul III believed they were needed in Rome and brought them back. Paul III made the future Paul IV a cardinal and employed him in reforming the Curia and in the Inquisition in Italy, where he was very strict if not harsh. Paul IV was very old at his election as pope and quite surprised by it. Legend has it that he might have refused the election if another cardinal had not announced that Charles V would veto Cardinal Caraffa if elected; in outrage at this attempt at meddling, Caraffa accepted. The Habsburgs shut the pope out of the serious issues of the era, especially the attempts at a political settlement with Protestants and issues around the succession to the Empire and forced the pope to ally with France. Unlike Paul III, Paul IV is not considered a successful pope. He promoted a very unworthy "cardinal-nephew" despite his own personal rigor; he was petty in awarding other family members with land taken from Spaniards due to his quarrels with the Habsburgs; he took probably very problematic measures encouraging harshness by Queen Mary in England and thwarting Cardinal Pole. He did take some actions toward re-establishing a Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands and starting one in the Orient. He continued to encourage the Inquisition but at least had a reputation for being no respecter of persons in that regard, and he did disavow his problematic nephews after various failures.   Paul V: A relative of St. Catherine, his family was from Siena and had moved to Rome. In many ways he was a stiff canon lawyer and a bad negotiator. He got into a tremendously bitter dispute with Venice on grounds that to modern ears sound pretty bad: Venice refused to exempt clergy from civil courts. They did also forbid transfer of real property to clergy and required civil approval of new churches. Paul V put them under interdict, which they flagrantly ignored. The Jesuits, Theatines, and Capuchins left the city, and the other clergy apparently sided with the government. Much was written by learned men on either side, such as Baronius, Bellarmine, and the Venetian Paolo Sarpi--something of a quasi-Protestant and despiser of the politics of the Papal Curia. The French and Spanish governments helped broker a somewhat distasteful compromise--certainly distasteful to Paul V. Yet Paul V was not always so intransigent. He tried to reach a rapprochement with James I in England, asking that Catholics in general not be persecuted after the Gunpowder Plot but commiserating with the monarch over the attempted assassination, but the pope was rebuffed. An interesting note: According to J. Jungmanns, The Mass of the Roman Rite, Paul V signed a decree in 1615 allowing the Mass to be celebrated in Chinese, out of respect for the antiquity and learning of ancient Chinese philosophy, recognizing it as a peer to Latin or Greek. This decree was never transmitted and acted upon, and Benedict XIV a few years later decided differently. In administering Rome Paul V was more successful. Even though he promoted many members of his family, they in general served the administration well. He also got to celebrate many of the achievements of the sixteenth century: the new St. Peter's was finished, and he canonized or beatified saints like Charles Borromeo, Frances of Rome, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, and Philip Neri. Sadly, his reign also saw the actual start of the Thirty Years' War.   Paul VI: Our first pope in living memory if we discount the preliminary discussion of the Piuses. Paul VI was a career Church diplomat, much like John XXIII and Pius XII. When John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council and then passed away a short time into its proceedings, Cardinal Montini was elected and took the long-disused name of Paul. He never publicly explained his choice in detail. It is widely believed that it was to hark back to the Apostle, far more than any kind of biretta-tip to a previous pope, although the legacy of Paul III and his reforms leading to the Council of Trent might be a distant secondary consideration. John XXIII had taken an even more disused name, the name of an Apostle, and Paul's legacy and its connection to Rome if anything makes it surprising that more Popes have not taken the name. In any case, Paul's pontificate was inevitably linked to the Council. His tasks were to celebrate and spread its messages, begin the authoritative interpretation of its statements, and carry out its intentions. In the event Paul was pope long enough to complete most of the latter: the enormous revisions to the Mass and to the Breviary or Liturgy of the Hours. He also implemented changes to the structure of the Curia in Regimini ecclesiae universae, a stream of influence on the later 1983 revision of the Code of Canon Law under John Paul II. Perhaps the final major document of the postconciliar period, the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, was not completed until 1994 and bears more of the mark of John Paul. Paul VI did not use the term "new evangelization" but made statements leading in that direction--for example, in the document Ecclesiam Suam on the Church's posture toward the modern world and in Evangelii Nuntiandi. He contributed to Catholic social teaching on the morality of economic development, especially in Populorum Progressio. In these ways he emphasized the positive developments begun during the Council. In other ways he took stands against the so-called "spirit of Vatican II" by emphasizing traditional doctrines. In Mysterium fidei he emphasized the continuing central role of the Blessed Sacrament in Catholic spirituality, and in Humanae Vitae he reiterated and put on a new, bolder, more consistently argued footing the traditions of Christian sexual morality, combating the unprecedented assault of the "Sexual Revolution" and paving the way for John Paul II to develop these ideas more fully in his pontificate.   Why Paul VII, and what would taking that name seem to imply for a 21st century pope? Using St. Paul as a reference point could never be inappropriate. In our contemporary situation the primary inference, an emphasis on the missionary calling of the Church, would again be foremost. Paul could also be used as a symbol of Romanness, but the political situation for that is hard to see reasserting itself any time soon. Obviously folk would assume a reference is being made back to Paul VI and to the Second Vatican Council. This, as even this short summary shows, would be an ambiguous reference. Is Paul VI the "liberal" Pope who fulfilled the Council's promise to rescue us from the Latin mumble Mass? Or is he the "conservative" Pope who was so out of touch as to condemn contraception? Paul III is a prominent enough figure that he, too, could serve as a reference point. In that case look out for a Third Vatican Council or (if Providence is truly gracious) a Fourth Council of Constantinople. The assessment of such a cardinal choosing to call out Paul III specifically (in addition to Paul the Apostle, Paul VI, and perhaps other great Pauls from Christian history) might be that the situation is parallel to the situation Paul III inherited in this way: The conciliar movement at the end of the Western Schism did not reach a stable resolution at Constance, Pisa, or Basle, but left smoldering embers that roared up as Protestantism and required the Council of Trent to address (unfortunately after enormous lasting damage was done). Similarly, the legacy of the Second Vatican Council is clearly unresolved. That is to say nothing of the millennium-old schism with the East, although this hypothetical Paul VII might or might not choose to embrace the goal of complete reunification of apostolic, sacramental Christianity--he might well decide that the Roman communion needs to heal its own wounds before launching itself more vigorously into that quest. In any case, a reference to Paul III might imply a belief in the need for another Council to settle the liturgical, administrative, and other problems still facing the Church.

Father Koys takes us on another “brain wrinkling” walk as he discusses The Bible and how the Word of God is a person which The Bible is an earthy view of. Today Father Koys opens with St Jerome whose feast day is today, before going into the nature of the Bible and how Catholics and Protestants differ in our approach to scripture. He further offers historical insight into this topic discussing a story of a mission of St Isaac Jouges in upstate New York and later compares the new Act of Contrition with the older form some may remember. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

“Are we in partial communion with Protestants?” This question opens a discussion on the nuances of Catholic and Protestant relationships, including how to engage in conversations about Scripture with Protestants and the implications of Matthew 7:18 on the doctrine of Once Saved Always Saved. Other topics include the nature of communion with hostile Protestant groups and the understanding of the sacraments beyond Baptism and marriage. Join the Catholic Answers Live Club Newsletter Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Questions Covered: 05:10 – Why do we say we are in partial communion with protestants? 14:15 – How do you converse with protestants regarding scripture? 21:27 – What are your thoughts using Matthew 7:18 as a refutation of Once Saved Always Saved? 29:07 – Is there communion with those protestants that are hostile to the Catholic faith like Ryan from NeedGod.Net, TacoTalks and others? 43:43 – I've heard the protestant object: How are the other 5 Sacraments apart from Baptism and marriage sacraments? What’s the answer to this? 49:15 – I'm Protestant and have been in the baptist church most of my life and have no reason to leave it. But I do love listening to CA Live! Though I do still have some reservations. Why do you honor Mary and the saints to much?

Joe examines the evidence for the Sign of the Cross as an ancient Christian practice. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and why do Catholics make the sign of the cross? If you’re not Catholic, should you be making the sign of the cross yourself? And broadly speaking, Protestants fall into three groups on this question. Those who use the sign of the cross, those who think it’s harmless, and those who think it’s actually dangerous. In the first group, you’re gonna get Lutherans and Anglicans who often make the sign of the cross i...

In this episode, Will Jackson and Jason Elvington link up with two pastors from Ridgewood Church in Greer, SC, Trevor Hoffman and Aaron Markham, to discuss the pattern of Protestants converting to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation recorded in the Summer of 2026.You can hear more from Trevor and Aaron on the All of the Above Podcast.

In our study today we are going to learn that some of the essential core values of saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is knowing that He is not only God the Son and the Son of God, but that He is the One and Only Shepherd of the sheep, the One and Only Door into heaven, and that all those sheep who believe in Him are the one and only Body of Christ. Believe it or not, what I just wrote to you is considered to be hateful, intolerant, judgmental, and unacceptable in our current progressive society. But an unbiased reading of all of Scripture will put to rest any and all objections to these foundational truths revealed in the Word of God.So what do these core values teach us as followers of Jesus? They teach us that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not about us, but about Him. Jesus Christ IS the Gospel. He is the Door Who by faith in Him we enter into heaven. He is the Good Shepherd Who lays down His life for the sheep. All of our righteousness, redemption, wisdom, and sanctification are ours in Him. And Jesus places all sheep who believe in Him into one body.But Jesus also warns us about thieves and robbers who masquerade themselves as doorways to heaven or shepherds of God's people. Jesus calls them thieves, robbers and hirelings. These simple but profound truths of Scripture are some of the rock solid foundations upon which we build our faith and grow in the love, grace, and knowledge of God and one another.Beloved, there is only one body of believers in heaven and on earth. Now on earth, we may identify ourselves as Baptists or Lutherans or Catholics or Protestants, but there will be no such distinctions in heaven. The only kind of sheep who are in heaven are called born again regardless of his or her identification with a religious group on earth. Paul writes in Ephesians 4:4-8 "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ."My prayer for all who read this is that "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him" (Eph 1:17). SELAHKoinonia FellowshipSundays at 8:30a and 10:30a500 Main St. East Rochester, NY 14445koinoniafellowship.com

Paul Axton Preaches: The Trump administration is filled with devout Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians, and yet the religion on display in this administration and its supporters aligns with an evil cruelty, worse than atheistic nihilism, which can only be countered by a recovery of the metaphysical seriousness of God revealed in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!   

Imagine somebody knocks on your door. They've got an interesting proposition. Pack up your family. Sell what you can't carry. Leave your home. Travel hundreds of miles into a country you've probably never seen. The roads aren't really roads. There aren't many towns. There are no hospitals. No grocery stores. No police department. And once you arrive, you're pretty much on your own. But... There's land. A lot of land. And you can have some. There's just one other little detail. You're leaving the United States. You're immigrating to Mexico. Interested? Apparently, quite a few people were. This is the Hidden History of Texas. And today we're going to meet the people who looked at that proposition... and said yes. Hello, I'm Hank Wilson and Welcome to Episode 99 of the Hidden History of Texas We've talked before about Stephen F. Austin. We've talked about the Old Three Hundred. And if you grew up in Texas, you probably heard at least some version of the story. Moses Austin received permission to bring three hundred families into Texas. Moses died. His son Stephen took over. The settlers came. And eventually they became known as the Old Three Hundred. That's all true. But it makes the whole thing sound remarkably organized. It wasn't. In fact, when this began, nobody could have been completely certain which government was going to be in charge by the time everybody arrived. The story really begins with Moses Austin. Austin had been involved in lead mining and banking in Missouri, and like a lot of Americans, he was hit hard by the Panic of 1819. He needed another opportunity. Texas looked like one. But Texas wasn't American territory. It belonged to Spain. So in 1820, Moses Austin traveled to San Antonio and asked Spanish authorities for permission to bring families from the United States into Texas. Initially, the answer wasn't particularly encouraging. But Austin had previously lived in Spanish territory and had become a Spanish citizen. Eventually his proposal was accepted. In January 1821, Spanish authorities approved a plan allowing Austin to bring three hundred families into Texas. They wanted families who were hardworking, respectable, and Catholic. From the Spanish government's perspective, this wasn't charity. Texas was enormous. It was sparsely populated by Spanish and Mexican settlers. And Spain wanted people living there who could farm the land, create communities, strengthen the economy, and help secure the frontier. Moses Austin headed home to begin organizing the venture. He never got the chance. He became ill and died in June 1821. The Texas project passed to his son. Stephen F. Austin. And almost immediately, the ground shifted underneath him. Mexico became independent from Spain. Think about that. The government that had authorized the colony no longer existed. Austin had settlers preparing to move to Texas under an agreement made with Spain... and Texas wasn't Spanish anymore. It was Mexican. Stephen Austin went to San Antonio and persuaded Governor Antonio María Martínez to recognize him as his father's successor. Austin and Martínez worked out terms for distributing land. A head of household could receive 640 acres. There could be additional acreage for a wife and children. Even additional acreage for enslaved people brought into the colony. Austin returned east and began advertising. And people responded. Why wouldn't they? America was still recovering from the Panic of 1819. People had lost farms. Banks had failed. Credit had collapsed. Land in the United States was becoming more expensive and, in some places, harder to obtain on favorable terms. Then somebody tells you that enormous amounts of fertile land are available in Texas. Cheap. Very cheap. For a farmer with little money and several children, that wasn't simply an investment opportunity. It was a chance to start over. The first colonists began arriving late in 1821. Some traveled overland. Others came by sea. And their experiences tell us something about what moving to Texas actually meant. One group sailed from New Orleans aboard a small schooner named the Lively. They were supposed to meet Austin at the mouth of the Colorado River. Instead, bad weather blew them off course. After weeks at sea they reached the Texas coast... and mistook the Brazos River for the Colorado. That was frontier GPS in 1821. Eventually they made their way upriver. Their food supplies dwindled. They planted corn. They waited. They couldn't find Austin. And most of them eventually became discouraged and went back to the United States. That's something worth remembering. Not everybody who came to Texas stayed. And not everybody who tried succeeded. Those who did stay discovered that the advertisements couldn't possibly describe everything they were getting themselves into. The land could be magnificent. Rich bottomland stretched along the Brazos and Colorado rivers. There was timber. Grassland. Wildlife. And enough acreage to make somebody who had struggled to acquire a small farm back east feel unimaginably wealthy. But acreage isn't the same thing as prosperity. First you've got to survive long enough to do something with it. You need shelter. You need food. You need tools. You need seed. You need livestock. You need neighbors. And when something breaks, there isn't a hardware store fifteen minutes away. If somebody gets seriously injured, there's no ambulance coming. If your crop fails, there isn't necessarily another source of food. If the river floods, you're dealing with it. If disease arrives, you're dealing with that too. And then there were the people already living here. This is another place where the traditional Texas story can become misleading. Texas wasn't empty. It wasn't simply unused land waiting for American farmers. Indigenous peoples had lived, hunted, traded, traveled, and fought across this country for generations. The Karankawa lived along portions of the Gulf Coast. Tonkawa groups occupied and traveled through areas farther inland. Wichita peoples lived and hunted farther north. And beyond the settlements were Comanche-controlled regions whose political and military power could not simply be ignored. When Austin's colonists arrived, they weren't moving into empty wilderness. They were moving into an already occupied human landscape. And conflict followed. Austin organized militia forces. Settlers and Indigenous groups raided one another. There were killings on both sides. Austin ordered and participated in military expeditions against Indigenous communities. There were also negotiations, trade, agreements, and periods of cooperation. The frontier was never as simple as the old movies made it. Meanwhile, Stephen Austin had another problem. Paperwork. Lots and lots of paperwork. Because Mexico still had to decide whether the agreement originally made under Spanish rule was valid. Austin traveled all the way to Mexico City. And then waited. And negotiated. And waited some more. Mexico itself was undergoing enormous political change. There had been a war for independence. Then an empire. Then the empire collapsed. Then a republic. Imagine trying to get a subdivision approved while the entire national government keeps changing. Eventually Austin succeeded. In 1823, the Mexican government confirmed his authority to establish the colony and introduce three hundred families. The arrangement became the foundation of what we remember as the Old Three Hundred. But the people receiving those grants were not Americans establishing American territory. Legally, they were colonists in Mexico. And Mexico had expectations. Religion was one of them. The colonists were expected to be Catholic. For some immigrants that wasn't a problem. For others... Let's just say enforcement could be flexible. Many settlers coming from the United States were Protestants. Austin understood that. Mexican officials understood it too. What mattered in practice was often less straightforward than what appeared in the law. But the requirement existed. And there was another issue that would become far more serious. Slavery. Many immigrants came from the American South. Some brought enslaved men, women, and children with them. Slavery therefore became embedded in the economic development of Austin's colony, particularly in the cotton-growing regions. But Mexico's relationship with slavery was changing. Mexican law increasingly restricted it. Texas colonists repeatedly sought ways around those restrictions. Austin himself worked to protect slavery within the colony because he believed attracting settlers from the southern United States—and developing the cotton economy—depended upon it. That conflict didn't disappear. It became one of several increasingly serious differences between many Anglo settlers in Texas and the Mexican government. But in the early 1820s, those later conflicts weren't predetermined. The people arriving weren't marching toward a Texas Revolution they knew was coming. They were trying to build farms. And Mexico was offering them an extraordinary incentive. Land. Under the evolving Mexican colonization system, settlers engaged in farming or ranching could receive grants measured not in dozens of acres... but hundreds or thousands. Later colonization laws could provide a ranching family with a league of land. That's more than 4,400 acres. ...

Patrick explores the challenges in modern education, the impact of feminism on institutions, and perceptions of American culture. He addresses misconceptions about Catholicism, responds to concerns from callers, and draws on audio contributions and personal anecdotes to foster reflection on faith, tradition, and societal change. Throughout this episode, listeners hear honest questions and heartfelt responses woven with encouragement and gratitude for those seeking deeper understanding and a way back to their faith. Audio: Porn: We have a culture problem –https://x.com/LiveAction/status/2102020018582003858/video/1?s=46 (01:17) Audio: What culture does America even have? –https://x.com/NotTheirScript/status/2088448714486485092?s=20 (03:09) Audio: Why universities breed bad ideas (Real Talk Marissa Street with Gad Saad) – https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2091169446157029484/video/1?s=46 (10:34) Audio: Mary Katherine Ham on failing schools –https://x.com/mkhammer/status/1975220947813896228?s=46&t=m_l2itwnFvka2DG8_72nHQ (12:00) Audio: Helen Andrews on why wokeness is hard to kill – https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2045246077272784930?s=46 (14:36) Audio: Elon recounting how he found tampons in men’s bathroom when he bought Twitter –https://x.com/jasonjournodc/status/1984389487473098988?s=46&t=m_l2itwnFvka2DG8_72nHQ (19:09) Audio: Helen Andrews points out why many fields keep feminizing –https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2039787322888065319?s=20 (23:34) Audio: Helen Andrews on the effects of feminism in the Law. Her concern isn’t women in law—it’s the potential loss of the cold, fact-driven, rule-following mindset that keeps the legal system fair and functional - https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2025689404732510371 (26:58) Gabriel - Why do Protestants say that Catholics are not Christians? (33:01) Margaret - In our diocese, two parishes have had funerals for free masons. (42:12) Lisa - I lived in Europe for some years and when I returned, I was in shock with anti-masculine society that has erupted (48:02)

|TF| S4 EP 2 | How can you know that you're saved? And if you've received the Holy Spirit, should you be certain of your salvation? This week on Thinking Faith, Deacon Eric Gurash and Dr. Brett Salkeld respond to a Miller High School student's question about assurance of salvation and the Catholic understanding of hope. Along the way, they explore baptism, the Holy Spirit, Ignatian discernment, purgatory, and why Catholics and Protestants can approach the question of being “saved” so differently. When it comes to salvation, where should our confidence ultimately rest? 02:14 Salvation Question Setup 02:57 Mailbag From Students 04:54 Assurance vs Hope 05:47 Protestant Roots of Assurance 08:58 Quicksand of Self-Doubt 10:47 Sacraments and Agency 13:39 Catholic Answer 14:59 Hope and Salvation Anxiety 15:40 Theological Virtue of Hope 16:14 Feelings and the Holy Spirit 17:24 Ignatius and Discernment Anchors 19:55 Hoping Hell Is Empty 21:06 Purgatory as Restorative Hope 25:44 My Hope Is in Jesus 26:43 Closing

In this episode, Will Jackson and Jason Elvington link up with two pastors from Ridgewood Church in Greer, SC, Trevor Hoffman and Aaron Markham, to discuss the pattern of Protestants converting to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation recorded in the Summer of 2026.You can hear more from Trevor and Aaron on the All of the Above Podcast.

Steve says the Atlanta Fed's forecast of 5+% GDP growth doesn't necessarily portend electoral success — especially when ordinary Americans are still getting gouged at the pump. Former U.S. Attorney Ed Martin joins the program to reflect on his time in public service. In Hour Two, Theology Thursday tries to figure out if Catholics and Protestants can coexist. TODAY'S SPONSORS: RELIEF FACTOR: VISIT https://www.relieffactor.com/ OR CALL 800-4-RELIEF CHIRP: https://gochirp.com/pages/steve-deace use promo code STEVE WORLD WATCH NEWS: https://worldwatch.news/ KEKSI: https://www.keksi.com/ use promo code DEACE15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Thursday, September 17th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark Russia fining Christians who help with Bible distribution Russia is cracking down on foreign religious organizations.  One of the groups is Mission Eurasia. The U.S.-based ministry works across post-Soviet Eurasia, equipping Christian leaders, distributing Bibles, and planting churches. Those who cooperate with the group in Russia have been convicted and fined.  Sergey Rakhuba, the president of Mission Eurasia, told Christianity Daily, “Governments can close an organization's office. They can prohibit a foreign organization. They can confiscate books. … But it is much harder to stop the Gospel when it is already in the hearts and hands of thousands of local believers.” In Isaiah 55:11, God said, “So My word that goes forth from My mouth … shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Send a polite, 4-sentence note to the Russian Ambassador to America, Alexander Darchiev, and urge him to tell President Vladimir Putin to stop fining Christians who help distribute Bibles. Send it to the Russian Embassy, 2650 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20007. To get the correct spelling of his name and the address, look at our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com. 2,634 Germans baptized in last 4 years Evangelical churches are experiencing growth in Germany. The Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany reported 2,634 baptisms over the last four years. That's up 76 percent from the previous four years.  Meanwhile, mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics continue to decline in Germany.   Christian mother allowed to adopt despite believing only 2 genders Here in the United States, a Christian mother in Oregon is free to adopt in accordance with her beliefs. Jessica Bates described her case. She said, “As a widowed mom of five, I was surprised to feel God nudging me to adopt. I never dreamt it would lead to a years-long lawsuit when Oregon excluded me just because of my religious convictions about gender.”  Alliance Defending Freedom announced she finally won the legal battle on Monday. She is now free to adopt without violating her Christian beliefs that God created only two genders – male and female. (Genesis 1:27) More American mothers killing their unborn babies Abortions continue to increase in the United States. Analysis by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found there were 1,129,020 reported abortions in America last year. That's up 1.8 percent from 2024.  Plus, an estimated 393,700 babies were murdered in the womb during the first four months of this year. At that rate, abortions are set to keep rising in 2026.   Trump champions deregulation of fossil fuel power plants The Trump administration repealed most greenhouse gas requirements on U.S. power plants on Monday. The regulations from the Obama and Biden administrations limited carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants.  Listen to comments from Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  ZELDIN: “Under the Obama and Biden administrations, the EPA went to war, targeting coal and natural gas. Many Americans remember the message being sent that our coal workers should just learn to code. “It's a different day under President Trump. Today, we are cutting the red tape to deliver the largest power sector deregulatory action ever saving 310 billion dollars for American families. We are also proposing to rescind all remaining greenhouse gas emission standards for power plants, all of them. “If finalized as proposed, energy producers will be given certainty for the future, empowering them to unleash the full potential of American energy and provide it at an affordable price for American families.” Average American spent $800 more on gas Americans have spent an extra $100 billion on fuel this year. Brown University estimated how much more gasoline and diesel has cost due to the Iran war. The figure comes out to over $800 per U.S. household in higher fuel costs.  Barna: 85% of voters likely to vote on November 3rd Arizona Christian University released a new study from Dr. George Barna ahead of the midterm elections in November.  The study found that 85 percent of voters will likely vote in primary and general elections. These are often high-profile state and federal elections. However, only 55 percent will likely vote in down-ballot races. These are more local elections. Dr. Barna noted, “School board, city council, judgeships, city and county executives -- these are common examples of the thousands of seats across the country that often directly affect the lives of citizens more than the high-profile, big-money, high visibility seats.” Tennessee Governor proclaims day of prayer, humility, & fasting And finally, Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee proclaimed September 18 as a day of prayer, humility, and fasting.  The proclamation stated, “We acknowledge God's sovereignty and the need for God's grace over our state and our nation . . . We seek forgiveness for our many transgressions so that our hearts and our minds may be renewed . . . Scripture tells us that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, [Proverbs 9:10] and the Lord gives wisdom freely to those who ask for it.” Indeed, James 1:5 says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” Close And that's The Worldview on this Thursday, September 17th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Patrick responds to heartfelt questions about faith, church practices, and personal struggles, encouraging listeners who feel lost or uncertain. He addresses concerns ranging from the biblical basis for praying to Mary, issues of church authority during unexpected liturgies, and how to honor loved ones who have passed without a traditional Catholic funeral. Throughout the episode, Patrick offers historical context, scriptural references, and warm support, guiding callers with compassion and clarity. Mark - I am trying to do the right thing. I was fired for belligerently expressing my belief in evolution. (00:24) Jasmine - Why do Catholics pray to Mary? (04:18) Purple Grammi (email) - Can you prove that JAMES IS NOT THE HALF BROTHER OF JESUS? (10:23) BY THE TIME you finish this article, "Yes, Jesus Was an Only Child" you will have a specific, biblically grounded answer for every version of the “Jesus had brothers” objection, including one from Scripture that few Catholics and Protestants have ever heard of. - https://patrickmadrid.substack.com/p/yes-jesus-was-an-only-child Prince - Does Jesus Christ know when the End Times will happen? (24:32) Angela - We attended Mass and the Deacon's wife presided over the whole mass. She came out in the garments of the priest and read the Gospel and said the homily. (25:54) Jessica - Can a non-Catholic request a Catholic funeral mass? (34:27) Jesus (email) - The end times have come up a couple times today and makes me keep wondering what the Bible says about what will happen to the Church in the end times? I thought I recall you mentioning something about it becoming corrupted or something along those lines. How does that square with what Jesus says in the Gospels on how the gates of Hell will never prevail against his church? (44:51)

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We left last episode with the policy response of Venice, Ypres, Rouen and Grenoble to first the 1527-1531 famine and later structural response.  Today, we'll look at Lyons, Valladolid and England.  It's not easy, it never is when demons are involved.          Anyway, we will have looked at France, the low countries, England, Spain and Italy.  One of the points is that Humanist inspired regulation, adopting their core ideology was done by both Catholics and Protestants.  The Catholics suffered more from internal politics, as there was political pushback from the monasteries and other sections of the church when the policy response of the cities was always, eventually always, to secularize the aid to the poor.  Because the secular authorities, by the 16th century, were where all the repressive power was.  And repression of the poor gradually became a key plank in the solution set.  Remember Rouen and the gibbets standing right next to where food was distributed.Lyon has been a favorite of historians studying 16th century poverty. It follows and unusual, but dramatic arc. 

What if we have completely misunderstood how people in the 1st century thought about salvation? Our LinksWebsite: http://thoughtfulfaith.orgInstagram:   / thoughtful.faith  TikTok:   / thoughtful.faith  Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1478749DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this video are entirely the opinion of the creator and do not necessarily reflect any officially endorsed positions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or channel sponsors.

Salvation for Protestants, the meaning of Religion, the psychological effects of the rapture and more on Called to Communion with Dr. David Anders.

“What do Protestants get wrong about Jerome and the Canon?” This question opens a discussion on the complexities of Jerome’s views and their implications for understanding Church authority. Other topics include the tension between Jerome’s intellectual stance and submission to Church teachings, as well as the role of the Deuterocanonical books in the Jewish Bible. Join the Catholic Answers Live Club Newsletter Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Questions Covered: 01:42 – What do Protestants misunderstand about Jerome on the Canon? 18:18 – The tension between Jerome's intellectual views and his submission to Church authority. 22:28 – I disagree with your view on when the accepted canon. I want to challenge you on it. 36:49 – Are the Deuterocanonical books in the Jewish bible? 43:39 – Regarding the KJV. Can we go through the nuances of the Masoretic texts of the Old Testament? 48:38 – How much influence did the Jews have on the early canon?

Who are the Church Fathers and how should Christians view them? Pastor Adriel discusses how Christians should read the Church Fathers and understand the confessions in light of the Reformers and Scripture. DOWNLOAD IS GOD FAIR? A classic essay from the late J.I. Packer on whether God is really fair. FOLLOW US YouTube | Instagram | X/Twitter | Facebook | Newsletter WHO WE ARE Sola Media serves today's global church by producing resources for reformation grounded in the historic Christian faith. For over thirty-five years, Sola has walked alongside Christians in their faith, pointing away from novelty and ourselves, and toward Christ and his gospel as proclaimed in the Scriptures, articulated in the ancient Christian Creeds, and summarized in the confessions of the Protestant Reformation. Learn more: https://solamedia.org/

“What do Protestants misunderstand about the Bible?” This question opens a discussion on key theological differences, while also addressing how to engage with friends who hold sedevacantist views, the significance of papal condemnations, and the role of the Rosary in Catholic practice. The conversation spans various topics, providing insights into Catholic beliefs and practices. Join the Catholic Answers Live Club Newsletter Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Questions Covered: 01:00 – What do Protestants misunderstand about the bible? 12:47 – My friend is a Sedevacantist. How can I talk to him and tell him that sedevacantism is not Catholic? 21:20 – Reviewing what clips from movies and series I can use for my Bible classes, there’s a huge gap from Daniel (538 BC) to the birth of Christ. Does anyone know of a movie set in Judea in the Persian/Greek/early Roman period 538 BC-4 BC? 28:57 – Outside of the CCC what suggested readings do you have for learning about what it means to be Catholic? 35:01 – what should I do because I'm really trying to leave 1st Calvary Baptist Church and he tells me the Rosary is not in the Bible!! What should I do? 38:27 – How authoritative are papal condemnations (calling X doctrine “heresy”) by early popes (and/or doctors of the church) in their letters/theological treatises? (For example the Agnoete controversy) 44:03 – Can you explain the different eastern rites specifically the Syro-malabar rite? How can you explain to our Protestants and Orthodox friends that they are also Catholic? 50:31 – How is it that the Orthodox Church is valid if they don’t follow the Pope?

Jeremy takes a look at the vast landscape of Protestantism, breaking down several general categories that Protestant churches fit into. He has made a new visual, available for download. This look at Protestantism gives examples of denominations that are both sound and erroneous, and it doesn't include restorationist movements. It is sure to be accepted by everyone as a perfect primer on the subject.   Download the visual here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LWH6ROQtTjfF_ZoTSF2pc_8shLtfXG8D/view?usp=sharing   Here's the series on Protestant Perspectives on Sanctification: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPKMiYalFd0I   Here's the video defining what "Reformed" means: https://youtu.be/feUSZpBy_FM?si=gcMw7NCQ3QzPGRyr   Do Theology is part of Foundations Media. Learn more at https://foundationsmedia.org   https://dotheology.com https://store.dotheology.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DoTheology   Contact Us: show@dotheology.com https://twitter.com/dotheology https://facebook.com/dotheology   Subscribe to the podcast: https://linktr.ee/DoTheology   0:00 Introduction 2:26 A New Chart 6:16 An Old Chart 8:51 Lutheran 14:03 Reformed 21:23 Baptist 29:31 Anabaptist 33:36 Anglican 36:52 Wesleyan 41:11 Pentecostal 47:05 Concluding Thoughts 50:23 Conscience Chatter

I recently jumped into a live conversation on X with two Protestants named Lizzie, both of whom have become well known for their steady stream of posts criticizing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.They had invited Latter-day Saints to join the Space and defend what we actually believe while several Protestants challenged us on everything from LDS doctrine to Church history.I was content to listen—until the conversation turned to the Great Apostasy.That's when I decided to jump in.What followed was a wide-ranging and surprisingly intense discussion about the early Christian Church, apostolic authority, and whether the historical evidence actually supports the Protestant narrative about what happened to Christianity after the apostles.And then, toward the end, the conversation took a turn I definitely wasn't expecting.Here's what happened.Our LinksWebsite: http://thoughtfulfaith.orgInstagram:   / thoughtful.faith  TikTok:   / thoughtful.faith  Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1478749DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this video are entirely the opinion of the creator and do not necessarily reflect any officially endorsed positions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or channel sponsors.

Podcast Title:  Jude: Remain in the love of God & have mercy on those who are wavering   Check us out: https://www.determinetruth.com The book of Jude is short—but it contains some of the strangest material in the New Testament. Why does Jude talk about rebellious angels? What does Genesis 6 have to do with his argument? Why does Michael the Archangel dispute with the devil over the body of Moses? And perhaps most surprisingly, why does Jude use traditions found in writings like 1 Enoch? In this episode of the Determine Truth Podcast, Rob and Vinnie explore Jude within the world of Second Temple Judaism and examine how ancient Jewish literature can help us understand this often-overlooked New Testament letter. We begin with the identity of Jude himself. Was he actually the brother of Jesus? That question leads us into an unexpected discussion about Jesus' brothers, the perpetual virginity of Mary, and why Protestants should understand Catholic and Orthodox interpretations before dismissing them. Then we turn to Jude's primary concern: false teachers who had entered the Christian community, distorted the grace of God, and used their theology to justify immoral behavior. Vinnie Angelo & Rob Dalrymple FOLLOW THE PODCAST Subscribe to be notified of our new episodes (each Monday).  Want to help us expand the Gospel of the Kingdom? Leave a review, “like” the podcast, or share it with others.   CONNECT WITH DETERMINETRUTH MINISTRIES The Determinetruth Podcast is a ministry of Determinetruth Ministries. We offer free resources to equip pastors, leaders, and the body of Christ in the US and worldwide for service in the kingdom of God. You can visit us online at https://www.determinetruth.com   SUPPORT DETERMINETRUTH MINISTRIES Determinetruth is a non-profit 501(c)(3), and relies completely on the financial support of our partners around the world.  Please consider partnering with us and making a tax-deductible donation https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithely/give-one-time/3648601   Want a FREE CHAPTER from Rob's latest book? Sign up for email updates from Determinetruth.   https://mailchi.mp/5672d33f2b95/dt-podcast Music: “Love is Against the Grain” (Dime Store Prophets)

12:52 - About whom will Jesus say, "Depart from me, I never knew you." / 21:00 - Praise report. / 31:07 - Unspoken prayer request. / 37:16 - Praise report for cancer remission. / 43:24 - Luke 13:20-21, is Jesus talking about Protestants and Orthodox here? / 50:25 - What happened to Catherine Khulman?

Welcome to Day 2941 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain and today is Day 2941 – Theology Thursday – Not a Binary Choice: Recovering the Full Picture of the Atonement Wisdom-Trek Podcast Script - Day 2941 Welcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps!   I am Guthrie Chamberlain, and we are on Day 2941 of our Trek.   The Purpose of Wisdom-Trek is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Our current series of Theology Thursday lessons is written by theologian and teacher John Daniels. I have found that his lessons are short, easy to understand, doctrinally sound, and applicable to all who desire to learn more of God's Word. John's lessons are available on his website, theologyinfive.com.  Not a Binary Choice: Recovering the Full Picture of the Atonement. Many believers raised in traditional evangelical settings were taught a single dominant explanation of the cross, usually Penal Substitutionary Atonement. It became the framework through which sin, salvation, prayer, and even God's character were understood. When people later encounter Christus Victor or other historic atonement models, the shift can feel disorienting, like choosing between competing versions of Christianity. But the Bible never asks us to make that choice. It presents the atonement as a multifaceted work that cannot be confined to a single model. The problem was never that PSA existed. The problem was that it became the whole story. The first segment is: The Bible Uses Many Images for a Reason. The New Testament describes the work of Christ through several metaphors. It uses sacrificial language, legal language, military imagery, temple imagery, ransom themes, and the language of liberation and deliverance. Each of these highlights a different aspect of one unified event. The atonement is too large and too complex to be captured by a single metaphor. When one model becomes dominant, the others are pushed to the margins, even though the biblical writers freely used all of them. Christus Victor does not contradict sacrificial or substitutionary language. It restores the cosmic dimension of the cross that was central to the early church. Christ defeats the powers that enslaved humanity, breaks the dominion of death, and disarms the hostile spiritual beings that opposed God's creation. The second segment is: How the Early Church Understood the Cross. For the earliest generations of Christians, the cross was first and foremost a victory. Their world was steeped in the reality of hostile spiritual powers, cosmic rulers, and the rebellion of the nations. When they spoke of the atonement, they spoke primarily of liberation, triumph, and the overthrow of death. This is the framework behind Paul's language about principalities, rulers, and the powers of darkness. It is the worldview behind Hebrews and the imagery of Revelation. Christus Victor was not a novel theory. It was the assumed backdrop of the biblical authors and the earliest church. The later Western emphasis on legal atonement did not replace this view, but it did overshadow it. Recovering it brings believers back into the thought world of the first and second-century church. The Third segment is: Why It Is Not a Binary Choice. Some assume that embracing Christus Victor requires rejecting PSA, or that acknowledging courtroom imagery requires minimizing the victory theme. This creates a false choice. The early church held multiple models without difficulty. They saw each as a window into the same event. They understood that sin is both guilt and bondage, and that the cross addresses both realities. When believers rediscover a neglected dimension of the atonement, they are not abandoning the faith they grew up with. They are recovering the fuller biblical picture. The fourth segment is: Why PSA Became Dominant in the Western Church. The rise of PSA dominance was historical rather than biblical. During the Reformation, the legal metaphors of scripture resonated deeply with a culture shaped by law courts, civic reform, and disputes with medieval abuses. Protestants emphasized the forensic side of the cross because it addressed the controversies of their era. Over time, this legal framework became the default lens for many Western Christians. But its dominance was shaped by history, not theological necessity. Recognizing this frees believers to receive the other biblical images without feeling that they are abandoning their tradition. The sixth segment is: Substitution Still Matters. Shifting emphasis does not mean losing substitution. Christ stands in our place. He gives Himself for His people. In Christus Victor, substitution takes on a different focus. Christ acts on behalf of humanity to defeat the powers we could not defeat and to break a curse we could not break. It is still substitution, but it is framed within liberation rather than divine retribution. The question is not whether substitution is biblical. The question is how the Bible applies it within the larger story of rebellion, bondage, and redemption. The seventh segment is: How This Shift Changes Faith and Prayer. For many believers, the shift begins with a new understanding of God's posture toward them. PSA can subtly create the impression that God accepts believers only after His wrath has been satisfied. Christus Victor reorients that picture. God has always been for His people. The cross is not the moment God becomes loving. It is the moment God defeats the forces that held humanity captive and demonstrates His commitment to restoring His creation. Prayer also takes on a different character. Instead of approaching God as a judge whose anger has been appeased, believers speak with a King who has already won and who invites them to share in His authority. Spiritual conflict becomes clearer. The New Testament's emphasis on hostile powers, principalities, and the dominion of death gains renewed weight. Faith becomes participation in the ongoing victory of Christ rather than a purely legal transaction. The eighth segment is: The Divine Council and the Cosmic Victory of Christ. A fuller understanding of the atonement also illuminates the Divine Council worldview woven through scripture. The cross is the moment when the hostile elohim who rebelled were judged, disarmed, and stripped of their authority over the nations. The rebellion of Genesis 6, the division of the nations in Deuteronomy 32, and the judgment of the gods in Psalm 82 form the backdrop to the work of Christ. Christus Victor situates the cross within this cosmic story and makes sense of the biblical claim that Christ triumphed openly over the rulers of this age. The ninth segment is: Salvation Has Always Been About Loyalty to Yahweh. Understanding the atonement also requires recovering a central biblical truth. From Genesis to Revelation, salvation is about covenant loyalty to Yahweh. Sin matters because it is an act of disloyalty. It aligns humanity with rival powers and hostile elohim who seek to rule the nations. Scripture consistently describes redemption as turning, returning, or giving allegiance to the one true God. The legal dimension of sin explains the guilt that must be forgiven, but guilt is not the center of the story. The deeper issue is misplaced loyalty. Humanity's rebellion in Eden, the cosmic rebellion of the sons of God, and the division of the nations all revolve around people drifting toward other rulers. The cross addresses this at the root. Christ breaks the power of those hostile beings, removes the guilt of disloyalty, and restores people to the God they were created to serve. The tenth segment is: A Biblical Example: David's Loyalty. David provides a clear example of the centrality of loyalty. Scripture never hides his sins. They were serious, and they carried real consequences. Yet he is consistently described as a man after God's own heart. The reason is not moral flawlessness, but unwavering allegiance. David never gave himself to another god. Even in failure, he returned to Yahweh, recognizing that sin was disloyalty rather than mere moral error. Psalm 51 shows that his repentance was a restoration of covenant faithfulness. This distinguishes David from Saul and Solomon, whose compromises involved divided allegiance, not isolated moral lapses. His life demonstrates that loyalty to Yahweh has always been the heart of salvation. The eleventh segment is: How This Deepens Daily Discipleship. A broader view of the atonement changes how believers understand temptation, suffering, and mission. Followers of Christ are not simply forgiven people waiting for heaven. They are participants in the restoration of creation. The powers have been defeated, but not yet removed. Believers live in the...

“How do we worship the same God as Muslims?” This question opens a discussion on the theological connections and differences between Christianity and Islam. Additionally, the episode addresses why some Protestants might struggle with the concept of the Eucharist, the appropriateness of shielding children from secular media, and the Catholic understanding of salvation beyond faith alone. Join the Catholic Answers Live Club Newsletter Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Questions Covered: 02:13 – How do you explain to protestant why God wants us to eat him? 17:53 – Is it overboard to shield kids from secular media like animated movies such as Madagascar? 19:10 – Is it overboard to shield kids from secular media like animated movies such as Madagascar? 24:06 – A friend told me that if you accept Jesus as your savior you are saved but we Catholics believe there’s a few more things we need to do. Why would God prevent us from going to heaven if we don't do those extra things? 42:06 – Can you explain to me how it is that we worship the same God as Muslims if they reject the Trinity? 47:52 – I have family who used IVF and conceived children. Is this something that’s forgivable since it has already resulted in children who I love very much? 52:04 – Are Mary's Assumption and sinlessness found in the bible?

We tend to think of the 1990s when it comes to Protestantism in Russia. It was then that evangelicals descended on Russia to shine Jesus' light into the post-Soviet void. Yet, the Soviet Union, despite its best efforts, was a multiconfessional state. And though officially atheist, religious belief persisted, including among the Union's small pockets of Protestants. Like with other faiths, the state's relations with Protestants vacillated between repression, accommodation, and control. As Miriam Dobson says in her new book, The Unorthodox, things shifted after Stalin's death. By the 1960s, regulating religious life fell under the purview of the Council of Religious Affairs. Sure, the state still emphasized atheism, closed churches, and prosecuted Protestants. But its methods were more surgical and the Council relied more on policing the margins over mass repression. So what was life like for the USSR's Protestant minority? How did they practice their faith and maintain community despite pressures of family, society, and the state? And how did all of this connect to the larger Cold War context where the USSR's archenemy was a Protestant majority country? The Eurasian Knot talked to Miriam about The Unorthodox to learn more about Protestant faith and community during the Cold War. Guest:Miriam Dobson is a Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin and The Unorthodox: Soviet Protestants in Cold-War Ukraine and Russia published by Cornell University Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christian reflects on inherited ideas about salvation and the questions that arose when his beliefs didn't match his life. The guys explore justification, sanctification, and glorification, and why salvation is more than simply getting into heaven. They also challenge caricatures of opposing traditions and consider how Catholics and Protestants can find common ground despite theological differences. In this episode: Philippians 2:1–5; Colossians 2:13–15; 1 Corinthians 15:1–2; 1 Peter 2:5, 9; John 6:51; Genesis 1:28; 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 7; Romans 6:19; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; Hebrews 10:26–29; John 16; Philippians 2:10–11 Today's conversation is about Lesson 8 of Theology 101: The Western Theological Tradition taught by various Hillsdale Professors. Take the course with us at no cost to you!  More about Theology 101: Examine the great questions of Western theology from the ancient Hebrews through today. The gift of speech, or reason, given by God to man, enables us to think about God and to worship Him.  This free online course pursues this purpose by examining the nature of God as revealed in the Bible, exploring the great theological questions and controversies of the early Christian church, studying the history of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and much more.  We invite you to join us and explore the nature of the relationship between God and man, and how a proper understanding of this relationship can lead to a free and happy life. Sign up at ⁠http://unashamedforhillsdale.com/ Check out At Home with Phil Robertson, nearly 800 episodes of Phil's unfiltered wisdom, humor, and biblical truth, available for free for the first time! Get it on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and anywhere you listen to podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/at-home-with-phil-robertson/id1835224621 Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. Chapters 00:00 Martin Luther's Three Powers of Faith 07:36 How Indulgences Became an Economy of Sin 12:03 Why the Reformation Finally Boiled Over 15:32 Justification vs. Sanctification 19:04 Al's Works-Based View of Salvation 24:28 The Three Ps of Salvation 29:11 Can You Be Saved Without Changing? 34:26 Why Sin Changes the Way You See Truth 38:54 What Glorification Will Actually Be Like 43:20 Catholics, Protestants & Common Ground 47:08 The Council of Unashamed - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seth Gruber's new film brings together prominent evangelical voices like Allie Beth Stuckey and Pastor Jack Hibbs, while also featuring Catholic commentator Michael Knowles—and it raises a much bigger question. For years, Protestants and evangelicals have joined forces with figures like Lila Rose in the fight against abortion, often under the banner of “co-belligerence.” More recently, Joel Webbon announced Alex Jones as a speaker at his “Christ Is King” event. And Doug Wilson has openly articulated the reasoning behind these kinds of alliances: we may fundamentally disagree, but we can still fight together against a common enemy. But is that actually a biblical position? When does working alongside someone become joining together in a cause? And when eternal souls are at stake, can Christians separate the battle from the gospel? Today, we're examining co-belligerence and putting it to the test of Scripture. Follow Good Fight Ministries on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goodfightministries Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodfightministries Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/goodfightmin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@goodfightministries Rumble: https://rumble.com/GoodFightMinistries Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goodfight Catholicism Examined: Are Catholics Christians? https://youtu.be/lknU3izRi2Q

Ryan Pineda and Brian Davila sit down with Alex “Voice of Reason” to debate the Catholic and Protestant views of Mary, breaking down the four Marian dogmas, the scriptures behind them, and the deeper divide over biblical interpretation and Church authority.⁣⁣Connect with Alex - ⁣https://www.instagram.com/voiceofreason_clips/⁣https://patreon.com/VoiceOfReason188⁣⁣__________⁣If you'd like my team to run your marketing & sales department to scale your business apply here https://www.pinedapartners.com⁣⁣Join our private mastermind for elite business leaders who golf. https://www.mastermind19.com⁣⁣Want to be featured on the Wealthy Way Podcast? Apply here https://www.wealthyway.com⁣⁣If you want to start your real estate investing business, we'll give you 1:1 coaching, seller leads, software, & everything you need. https://www.wealthyinvestor.com⁣⁣Tired of paying so much in taxes every year? We'll give you strategy, tax prep, and accounting all in one place. https://www.taylor-tax.com⁣⁣Join free Bible studies and workshops for Christian business leaders. https://www.tentmakers.us⁣__________⁣Chapters: ⁣00:00 - Introduction & Guest Arrival⁣⁣02:59 - Mary as Mother of God⁣⁣09:40 - Perpetual Virginity & Immaculate Conception⁣⁣15:02 - Questioning Divine Intent⁣⁣16:40 - Mary's Sinlessness & Scripture⁣⁣19:01 - Mary as the New Eve⁣⁣30:02 - Mary as Queen of Heaven⁣⁣32:02 - “Full of Grace” Explained⁣⁣33:31 - Romans, Righteousness & Faith⁣⁣45:04 - Mary's Sinlessness Debate⁣⁣46:33 - Catholic vs. Protestant Views⁣⁣48:43 - Righteousness & John the Baptist⁣

Edward Blum interviews Dr. Jamie L. Brummitt on how new book Protestant Relics in Early America. In Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxford UP, 2025), Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivated a lively relic culture centered around collecting supernatural memory objects associated with dead Christian leaders, family members, and friends. These objects materialized the real physical presences of God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and souls of the dead on earth.As Brummitt demonstrates, people of nearly all Protestant denominations and walks of life--including members of Congress, college presidents, ministers, mothers, free Black activists, schoolchildren, and enslaved people--sought embodied and supernatural sense experiences with relics. They collected relics from deathbeds, stole relics from tombs, made relics in schools, visited relics at pilgrimage sites like George Washington's Mount Vernon, purchased relics in the marketplace, and carried relics into the American Revolution and the Civil War. Locks of hair, blood, bones, portraits, daguerreotypes, post-mortem photographs, memoirs, deathbed letters, Bibles, clothes, embroidered and painted mourning pieces, and a plethora of other objects that had been touched, used, or owned by the dead became Protestant relics. These relic practices were so pervasive that they shaped systems of earthly and heavenly power, from young women's education to national elections to Protestant-Catholic relations to the structure of freedom and families in the afterlife.In recovering the forgotten history and presence of Protestant relics in early America, Brummitt demonstrates how material practices of religion defined early American politics and how the Enlightenment enhanced rather than diminished embodied presence. Moreover, Brummitt reveals how the secular historical method has obscured the supernatural significance of relics for the Protestants who made, collected, exchanged, treasured, and passed them down. This book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early American history, religion, politics, art, and popular culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

It is 50 years since a peace movement began in Northern Ireland spawned by the killing of three children. There had been seven years of sectarian violence. On 10 August 1976, Anne Maguire was walking along Finaghy Road North in West Belfast with her children when an out-of-control car plunged into them. It was driven by a member of the Irish Republican Army paramilitary group who had been fatally wounded at the wheel by British Army soldiers chasing him. Six-week-old baby, Andrew, who was in his pram and eight-year-old Joanne, who was on her bicycle, were instantly killed. Their brother John, just two-and-a-half, died the following day in hospital. The children's uncle, Gerry Grehan, tells Josephine McDermott about the life-changing tragedy and how it resulted in the Peace People, founded by Mairead Corrigan (later known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire), Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown.It was a peace movement which attracted support from across the religious divide. The sight of Protestants from the Shankill Road and Catholics from the Falls Road in Belfast walking side-by-side drew international attention. There were dozens of marches in other towns and cities including Ballymena, Londonderry, Enniskillen, Newry and London. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams were praised by world leaders and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that helped shape the world and hear it through the voice of someone who was there. Scientists, artists, campaigners, soldiers, leaders and everyday people tell their true stories.When you subscribe to Witness History, you'll be taken inside turning points in world affairs from West Africa's fight back against Boko Haram in 2015 to the behind-closed-doors talks that led to the US-Cuba “thaw” and the surprise announcement of restored relations. You'll discover what it was like to experience disasters and how people recovered from them, including the Tabasco floods in Mexico, Portugal's worst train disaster, and the huge clean-up after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. You'll explore culture and ideas too: Sweden's Expedition Robinson, often credited as the first modern reality TV game show; the friendship between The Beatles' George Harrison and Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar; and the night a tiger attack brought Las Vegas superstars Siegfried and Roy's show to a sudden end. And if you're curious about inventions, we'll tell you how air fryers, BlackBerry, YouTube, Alexa, GPS, superglue, the shopping cart (shopping trolley) and bubble tea were created.If you're new to Witness History, the appeal is simple: real voices, one strong true story, and a fresh way to understand today through events from history – all in the time it takes to enjoy a cup of tea or a walk around the block. Join millions of BBC World Service podcast listeners around the globe and enjoy the insight, context and detail Witness History will bring you.(Picture: Betty Williams, (left), and Mairead Corrigan lead a rally displaying the telegrams of support they received from all over the world. Credit: Getty Images/Bettmann)

August 24, 1572. Catholics kill thousands of Protestants in Paris in one of the most notorious religious massacres in European history. Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more. History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.

Dr Peter Kreeft is one of the most popular Christian authors of the 20th and 21st-centuries. Today I have the honor of sitting down with him to discuss suffering, faith, love, and the lessons he learned from 63 years of marriage to his late wife, Marie. Dr Kreeft's books: https://amzn.to/4qu4NKPDr Kreeft's website: https://www.peterkreeft.com/NEW: Check out our Merch store! https://shop.lilaroseshow.com/Join our new Patreon community! https://patreon.com/lilaroseshow - We'll have BTS footage, ad-free episodes, and early access to our upcoming guests.A big thanks to our partner, EWTN, the world's leading religious network! Discover news, entertainment and more at https://www.ewtn.com/ Check out our Sponsors:-We Heart Nutrition: https://www.weheartnutrition.com/ Get high quality vitamin supplements for 20% off using the code LILA. -Cozy Earth: Better Sleep, Brighter Days - Get the highest quality sleep essentials for 20% OFF at https://cozyearth.com/lila!-EveryLife Women: https://www.everylife.com/lila Buy diapers and women's health products from an amazing company and use code LILA10 to get 10% off!-Hallow: https://www.hallow.com/lila Enter into prayer more deeply this season with the Hallow App, get 3 months free by using this link to sign up! 00:00:00 - Intro00:03:49 - Why It's Reasonable To Trust God00:06:00 - Making Sense of Suffering00:09:05 - Best argument against God:00:10:46 - Happy atheists don't make sense00:13:04 - There is no spiritual technology00:15:21 - Grace is not what you think it is00:20:48 - How to receive more love in your life?00:25:21 - What does love in action look like?00:28:28 - Be patient and honest with yourself and God00:33:05 - The radical acceptance of God's will is incredible00:34:38 - St Faustina's shocking statement:00:40:26 - What would you want a non-believer to ask?00:45:27 - Responding to Viral Clip00:52:56 - Are most people “good people”?00:54:54 - From Calvinist to Catholic00:57:30 - Catholics and Protestants00:59:32 - Is Catholicism Heavenly or Satanic? 01:03:15 - Why did Jesus give us the Eucharist?01:07:03 - How Catholics and Protestants will become one again:01:08:51 - Muslims and Christians01:12:46 - #1 Thing Catholics Should Learn from Protestants01:13:51 - What should Protestants learn from Catholics?01:15:21 - Where are western Catholics failing?01:17:28 - Mother Teresa01:19:58 - Israel and Antisemitism01:23:19 - Sexual Revolution, Explained:01:28:25 - Sodomy01:33:54 - How to reverse the sexual revolution01:39:30 - Judge the action, not the person01:41:18 - How to join the cultural fight:01:42:24 - The role of contraception:01:44:23 - Silicon Valley trying to create immortality01:47:31 - Is Jesus going to return soon?01:49:21 - Losing his wife of 63 years01:57:02 - What would you tell your 25 y/o self?01:58:31 - Touching moment between Lila and Peter01:59:23 - Advice for single people02:01:08 - What has marriage taught you?02:05:16 - What is masculinity?02:07:43 - What do we get wrong about masculinity today?02:09:56 - What do we get wrong about feminity?02:13:22 - Getting a call from his wife…at her funeral02:15:55 - Processing the grief02:21:32 - Advice for fathers:02:22:37 - Advice for fathers:02:22:55 - The Tolkien Book Controversy02:28:23 - Peter Kreeft's favorite of his own books

It's Wednesday, August 19th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark, Timothy Reed, and Adam McManus 40 European hate crimes against Christians Christians in Europe faced dozens of hate crimes in July. The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe recorded 40 cases last month. Vandalism was the most common incident. In one case, authorities arrested an Islamic-State sympathizer who was planning an arson attack on a church in Hamm, Germany. The highest number of recorded incidents occurred in Germany, followed by France, Italy, and the United Kingdom.   Ebola virus has killed 2,300 people in Congo This year's Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the deadliest in the country's history. Over 2,300 people have died as of Sunday. And cases have reached about 5,000.  Christian aid groups like Samaritan's Purse are on the ground in Congo. Franklin Graham, president of the Christian relief group, said, “Samaritan's Purse has been on the frontlines of fighting Ebola for more than a decade, and we aren't going to stop now. We are going to do everything we can to help save lives. We want people to know that God loves them, and they are not alone.”  You can donate to Samaritan's Purse relief effort in Congo through a link in our transcript today at TheWorldview.com.  Trump gives $2 billion to Christian non-profits for disaster relief Here in the United States, the Trump administration announced nearly $2 billion in health and humanitarian assistance to faith-based organizations this month.  This includes over $500 million in disaster response funding for Samaritan's Purse and a consortium jointly led by World Vision and Compassion International.  The U.S. Department of State noted, “This historic announcement is the largest allocation of global health foreign assistance to faith-based organizations in over 20 years.” Conservative kicked out of school board meeting over filthy books Texas conservative Bonnie Wallace is suing the Houston Independent School District for removing her from a school board meeting. Wallace, who is a member of Protecting Texas Children, had sought to shine light on the immoral and inappropriate materials children are subjected to in schools. When she stepped up to the podium at first, she said this which was captured on video. WALLACE: “Before you purchase new books, you need to get rid of the 500 filthy books that you have. If there's children in the audience, they need to leave.” BOARD MEMBER: “Ma'am, Point of Order. This is a public hearing.” WALLACE: “I understand that.” BOARD MEMBER: “You will not be allowed to read things that are not appropriate.” WALLACE: “Oh, not appropriate? Then, why are they in your schools?” After she cited the first vulgar reference from a children's book in the school library, the board member said this. BOARD MEMBER: ”Absolutely not! Ma'am, you are now out of order. This is your first warning. One more word, and you will be removed.” After Bonnie Wallace read a second vulgar passage from the book in the children's library, the school board member asked for a police officer to remove her from the meeting. BOARD MEMBER: “Officer, please remove this woman from the podium.” WALLACE: “If you don't like it, remove it so the children don't have access to it!” BOARD MEMBER: “Thank you very much.” Grant Stinchfield, a conservative talk show host on Real America's Voice, was understandably outraged. STINCHFIELD: “That woman you see there, being walked out, simply read one of the books in the school library. Now, if it's not appropriate for a school board meeting, how is it appropriate for our children?” In her lawsuit, Wallace alleged, “This was textbook viewpoint discrimination: Such conduct is ‘an egregious form' of content regulation that the First Amendment almost never tolerates.” Isaiah 5:20-21 says, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness. … Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” Planned Parenthood closes Albuquerque, New Mexico abortion mill Planned Parenthood shut down its Northeast Heights abortion facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico last month.  It's the latest closure as the abortion giant consolidates locations in the state.  Bud Shaver, executive director of Abortion Free New Mexico, told LifeNews, “Despite New Mexico leaders pouring taxpayer money into abortion and using government policy to prop up the industry, abortion facilities are still consolidating and closing.” Vaccination rate for kindergartners dropped slightly Vaccination rates for kindergartners dropped slightly during the 2025-2026 school year.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the rate dropped by one percent overall.  Exemptions from one or more vaccines rose to 4.2 percent, up from 3.6 percent the previous year. Christian men, mainline Protestants, and Catholics dissatisfied with church And finally, the American Bible Society released the latest chapter of its State of the Bible: USA 2026 report.  The survey found some population groups struggled with church attendance compared to others. These include Christian men, young adult Christians, mainline Protestants, and Roman Catholics. Gen Z men reported the lowest satisfaction with the churches they attend. Overall, weekly and monthly church attendance remain unchanged from two years ago. The survey did note an uptick in people attending church about twice a year. That amounts to about eight million more Americans attending a church service in 2025 compared to two years earlier. Psalm 84:2 and 10 says, “My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. … For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.” Close And that's The Worldview on this Wednesday, August 19th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

“Why Reject Sola Scriptura?” This episode addresses key concerns about the authority of Scripture versus Tradition, including the top reasons to reject sola scriptura and the implications of Mary's sinlessness for those exploring Catholicism. Additional questions tackle the interpretation of Acts 17:11 and whether Jesus criticized Tradition, providing a comprehensive look at these important topics. Join the Catholic Answers Live Club Newsletter Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Questions Covered: 03:20 – Top 3 reasons to Reject Sola Scriptura 16:20 – I've heard Protestants cite Acts 17:11 in support of sola scriptura: “they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” Is that a good translation? 22:30 – My friend believes in sola scripture, and is interested in Catholicism, but can't get over our belief in the sinlessness of Mary. How can I help him? 29:15 – Does Jesus speak badly of Tradition? 33:30 – Would John 21 verse 25 (that not everything Jesus did could not be contained in books) be a good citation in refuting sola scriptura? 36:18 – Which of the Bible writers were Protestant? If none, why are the Protestants trying to claim it is their bible? 45:35 – In my Church there are some “traditions” that are not part of the Mass but are done during Mass anyway. 48:29 – My evangelical friend told me there are books in the Catholic Bible that were written 400 years before Jesus was born, and that's where Catholics get all their crazy teachings. He says they are not divinely inspired but Catholics put them in there. 51:55 – My niece told me she left the Church because it was founded by the Romans, and that her priest didn't know scripture.