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- 028: Forty Days
The holy season of Lent is well underway, and in this episode we’ll review several instances of 40-day periods in the Bible and see what insights they may give us.
6 min - 027: The Six Days of Creation
In this episode we’ll hear about St. Thomas Aquinas’s intriguing interpretation of the six days of creation described in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis.
8 min - 026: Science and the Old Testament
Is the Bible a science book? How should we react when we read things in the Bible that seem to contradict well established scientific facts? In this episode we’ll hear what St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas had to say about the matter.
8 min - 025: Achan's Plunder and Blunder
In this episode I’ll relate a disturbing story from the Book of Joshua that’s reminiscent of the story of Annanias and Saphira in the Book of Acts of the Apostles. It’s a story of a Israelite soldier named Achan who made a terrible mistake. What I say may not make the story any less disturbing, we will hear a great spiritual lesson related to it from St. John of the Cross.
8 min - 024: Rahab, Spies, and LiesIn this episode we’ll relate the story of the biblical heroine Rahab and discuss a certain moral dilemma it presents.9 min
- 023: On the Conquest of Canaan and Violence in the BibleIn this episode we’ll discuss four helpful perspectives on the violence involved in the Israelite’s conquest of Canaan, violence which is often cited by those who attack the validity of the Scriptures.13 min
- 022: To the Banks of the JordanHear the reflections St. Peter Damian, a Doctor of the Church, who made a seemingly boring passage of the Old Testament come alive by applying to it one of the spiritual senses of scripture that we discussed in the last episode.7 min
- 021: The Four Senses of Scripture
In this episode we’ll open up the Church’s treasury and bring out the four senses of Sacred Scripture that are four ways to appropriate the spiritual gifts of the Scriptures to our lives.
9 min - 020: "Before Abraham came to be, I AM"
In this episode we’ll discuss the startling implications of Jesus’s use of the phrase “I AM” in the Gospel of John.
10 min - 019: The Daughters of ZelophehadIn this episode we’ll see how three provisions of the Mosaic law prefigure or are an allegory for a key principle of the Church’s Social Teaching, the Universal Destination of Goods.10 min
About The Thoughtful Catholic
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The Thoughtful Catholic Podcast is a short form podcast that vigorously seeks the True, the Good and the Beautiful, making full use the two wings of the human spirit - faith and reason, and gifts…
drawn from the treasure house of the patrimony of the Catholic Church, including, but are not limited to, the Sacred Scriptures, the teachings of the Church Fathers, and examples from the Lives of the Saints.