Kresta in the Afternoon

David Sanborn grew up in a family of missionaries, and from an early age was taught to have a personal relationship with Jesus. As he pursued a career in theater he found a passion for Biblical roles but felt God was calling him to something more. He eventually became a minister, where his studies of John 6 showed him where the Spirit was guiding him. He joins us.

Are Christians today prepared to deliver persuasive arguments for the existence of God without using Scripture? Can they defend their beliefs against the onslaught of modern-day atheism? Ed Feser joins us with a look at arguments for the existence of God from history's greatest philosophers, broken down in a way that anyone can understand.

Is Hell irrational? Are actions made by finite creatures really worthy of infinite punishment? Al responds to these questions, as well as the claim that religion causes more violence.

In Mel Gibson’s The Passion, Pilate famously asks Jesus “What is Truth?” Humans have long been skeptical about our ability to know Truth, but Christianity has always insisted we can find it through Faith and Reason. Steven Long joins us with more.

Before they became Catholic, Dr Dave Anders and his wife had just one thing in common – their contempt for eachother. Today they are extremely happy together – thanks to their embrace of the Church’s teachings. Dave joins us with the story of how the Church saved his marriage – and possibly even his life.

We are born with an inherent understanding of right and wrong - it's one of the things that sets us apart from the rest of Creation. But the world we live in - one that no longer acknowledges even something as basic as the nature of gender - constantly interferes with this understanding. How can we regain our moral compass? We talk with Gerard Verschuuren about reacquainting our moral judgement.

What's the difference between a fact and an opinion? Many of us took quizzes in elementary school asking us to identify the two - "football is better than basketball," "Mars is the fourth planet from the sun," and so on. But this creates the false impression that things are either true - or are neither true nor false, the first step toward relativistic thinking. Matthew D'Antuono breaks down the false dichotomy.

Today we celebrate the feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. She deeply understood that vocation is comprised of a call and a response – the call comes from God, and with his help we are able to respond. We talk more about it with Donald Wallenfang.

Today's Gospel comes from Matthew 15, when a woman asks Jesus to heal her daughter possessed by a demon. At first, Jesus seems almost reluctant to heal her. What's going on? Al takes a look.

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on this day in 1945. In 1974 Archbishop Fulton Sheen reflected on the bombing of Hiroshima, observing that when the boundary between military and civilian targets was broken down, many other societal boundaries followed suit. Christopher Shannon joins us with more.