Considering Catholicism

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Considering Catholicism episodes

March 06, 2023 Explaining Lent to a Protestant (#101)
Ed the Protestant asks, "What is Lent, where does it come from (not in the Bible), and why do Catholics practice it?"
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38 min
March 02, 2023 What is Hell? (#100)
What is Hell? Why would God send anyone there? Didn't the Catholic Church just make it up to scare people into obeying? Greg and Ed continue their discussion of the "Last Things."
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34 min
February 27, 2023 What is Purgatory? (#99)
What is Purgatory? If Jesus saves us by grace, why should anyone go there? And if it isn't mentioned in the Bible, did the Medieval Catholic Church just invent it? Greg and Ed continue their conversations about the "Last Things."
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34 min
February 23, 2023 What is Heaven? (#98)
What is heaven? What would it be like? And why would you want to go there? Also, will your dog or cat get to go with you? Greg and Ed continue exploring the "Last Things" of Catholicism.
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37 min
February 20, 2023 Funerals, Families, Food, and Sex, Part 2 (#97)
Greg and Cory continue their discussion of how the historical Christian, particularly Catholic, understanding of funerals is at odds with current cultural trends. (Part 2 of 2)
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34 min
February 16, 2023 Funerals, Families, Food, and Sex, Part 1 (#96)
How are current trends in the format of funerals in America and Europe a significant break with historic Christian understandings of the body, death, and the central claim of the Gospel? (Part 1 of 2)
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29 min
February 13, 2023 Movie Club: ”The Mission” (#95)
Greg and Ed review one of the most well-done Catholic films of all time: the 1986 Academy Award-winning masterpiece "The Mission," starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons.
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40 min
February 09, 2023 Common Decency (#94)
Greg and Cory talk about the natural moral law that is necessary to hold communities together, even if it is made up of diverse religions.
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35 min
February 06, 2023 Is This All There Is? (#89)
Greg and Ed the Protestant discuss Christianity's belief in the transcendent realm, and why it reject's the atheistic or materialist notion that the physical world is all that is or all that counts.
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36 min
February 02, 2023 Sex, Personal Morality, and Catholicism (#88)
Greg and Ed the Protestant discuss why Catholicism holds the line on historic Christian doctrines of sex and personal moral accountability.
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39 min

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