Joe explains how common misconceptions about final judgement and the end times make people misinterpret what it means to be “left behind.”

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Joe:

Welcome, back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to talk about the end of the world and specifically the idea of the rapture. Now, if you’re part of a church or denomination that celebrates Advent, you may know that this time of year we look forward to the coming. That’s what Adventist means, the coming of Christ, both at Christmas but also at the end of the world.

But many people, partic...

Joe answers Tim Gordon responding to his last video on male-headship.

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Joe:

Welcome To Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to especially welcome Tim Gordon fans. So if you’re looking for the episode that Tim Gordon and Joe Enders recently critiqued on their live stream yesterday, I’m going to link to it at the end and in the description, but I have to warn you, if you watch it, you might realize it doesn’t say anything like what they falsely claim it said and that those guys are just using clickbait to draw attention to themselves. Now, you might ...

Joe breaks down Ephesians 5 and some common errors people interpret from the text. He explains what authentic Catholic male-headship looks like.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and for many people one of the hardest biblical teachings to know what to do with is this idea of male headship. When the Bible talks with the husband as the head of his wife, what does an authentic biblical headship look like? How should we not understand these passages and how can a proper understanding of headship actually improve your marriage? I think the best place to s...

Joe tackles the recent message by the USCCB on US immigration and deportations, and the response from Boarder Czar Tom Homan.

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JOE:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to talk about a contentious issue. What is a good Christian position on immigration? And I think it’s timely to talk about this on Thanksgiving for a couple of reasons. Number one, Thanksgiving is in many ways a story of people coming into the new world and these immigrants to a new country, to a new world were protected by the native population, the wampanoags. And had t...

Joe examines NT Wright’s robust argument against Purgatory, and why it’s incorrect.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Poperyu. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I wanted to look at some of the strongest arguments against the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, and I want to give a particular attention to the objections raised by the well-regarded Anglican theologian int Wright. Now, some of his objections are ones that are going to be familiar to anybody who’s debated purgatory, but others are ones that I hadn’t really heard before and I think Wright actually makes a re...

Joe examines a common argument that LDS and Muslims share over their respect holy books, the Book of Mormon and the Quran.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to address a popular argument I’ve heard both Muslim and Mormon apologists make for why we should believe the Book of Mormon or the Quran is inspired scripture.

And the argument goes something like this, don’t the founders Joseph Smith and Muhammad were not smart enough, educated enough, brilliant enough to have come up with these incredible works on their own. You loo...

Today, Joe examines the claim that the Catholic Church has changed positions to fit with the times, while Eastern Orthodoxy has remained the same since Christ founded the Church.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to respond to a specific criticism. I’ve heard from some orthodox against Catholicism that Catholicism is guilty of changing and developing unlike unchanging orthodoxy. And the argument goes, the Catholic church is out here changing the mass and changing her moral teachings to look more like current times unlike orthodoxy, whi...

Joe unpacks a new article that evaluated the “spiritual fruitfulness” of all the dioceses in the US. The results will surprise you!

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to take a deep dive in the numbers to see where we find America’s most fruitful diocese, where we find America’s least fruitful diocese and why? Now, if you know me, you might’ve noticed by now on Thursdays, I like to do a longer episode, and I often like to do a little bit of a deep dive. Sometimes it’s on the Bible or theology or philosophy ...

Joe dissects the argument that the Presentation at the Temple in Luke 2 is proof that Mary sinned, because she had to make a "sin offering."

Joe reviews the Vatican’s latest document on Mary, “Mater Populi Fidelis.” Some Catholics are concerned that age-old titles of the Blessed Virgin (Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix) are being banned. Is that actually the case?

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to explore some controversial Marian titles and the Vatican’s recent intervention into whether we should use these kind of terms or not. And the two in particular I want to focus on are the terms whether we should call Mary Co-Redemptrix and whether we should call her Me...