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From New Age Nashville and On the Road to Rome (#164)

Angie Griffith spent more than ten years as an executive in the music industry in Nashville. She was also enmeshed in New Age religion. Then the Holy Spirit, through a range of events and influences (including the Considering Catholicism Podcast), opened her eyes. She burned her Tarot cards, smashed her crystals, and began taking steps to enter the Roman Catholic Church.

In this episode, Angie shares her story. In the next episode (#165), she and Greg explore the seduction of New Age beliefs and practices.

Angie is the host of the "You Get What I'm Saying" podcast.

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Snapshot: Is Christianity Impractical or Impossible? (#163)

If you’re not crazy for being a Christian, can you realistically pull it off? Because living out your faith, living the Christian life, in the face of all of the struggles of this world and all that life in general throws at us? Well, that can sometimes seem impractical or even impossible.

So, is Christianity impractical? I mean, can anyone really live this way?

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Snapshot: Is Christianity Crazy? (#162)

How do all the agnostics, atheists, secularists, nihilists, and neopagans that make up our 21st-century culture view the Christian religion? Culturally, we’re living through the last days of the new Roman world. And how did the Romans view Christians? Generally, they thought that they were crazy. They considered the Christian religion silly and nonsensical and Christians to be dangerous anarchists, a threat to the order and worship of the State, to the civil religion of the empire. That’s what the establishment, the elites, the deep state, think of you and me: we’re dangerous because we worship a crazy religion instead of the technocratic bureaucracy of the modern globalist elites. So, is Christianity crazy? An insane idea? A nutty religion? Are Christians just wacko religious extremists?

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Searching for a Christmas Playlist (#161)

Every year, Greg tries to build a new Christmas playlist on his phone, and every year, he realizes how few decent Christmas carols there are. Why not? Why haven't any new Christmas carols been written in the last 100 years or more? Ed the Protestant and Cory lend their insights into the problem.

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Good Popes, Bad Popes, Mostly Average Popes (#160)

A listener named John asks, "What about bad popes who lived immoral lives, etc? How can they lead the Church?" As Greg explains, there have been good popes, bad popes, and mostly average popes, but the office of the seat of Peter is greater than any man who occupies it.

Listen to two previous episodes about the papacy:

#38: “A Protestant Asks, ”Why Do Catholics Have a Pope?”

#39 “More Protestant Questions About the Pope: Can He Just Make Stuff Up?”

 

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Snapshot: Discover Advent (#159)

We have begun Advent, the liturgical season of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. Advent means "coming" or "arriving," but what, exactly, is coming? And has it all arrived yet?

To learn more, watch the series of four videos, "Discover Advent:"

Part 1: https://youtu.be/DxxC6UkyMGM?si=4_ysAk9YE165btSy

Part 2: https://youtu.be/d0dST3iZKs4?si=iJa1n6yrpxkdZLOk

Part 3: https://youtu.be/RwFjqu0zuVg?si=vPINRPz-hgwWIy3p

Part 4: https://youtu.be/rTVP5iFnOwQ?si=UxhhotIV_wfoCwkm

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Snapshot: Stuff Jesus Never Said (#158)

Those who want to change the Church's teaching on homosexuality and same-sex marriage like to argue from Jesus' silence on the issue: "If Jesus didn't bother mentioning it in the gospels, it shouldn't matter." Protestants have made similar arguments against Catholicism for 500 years. Greg points out that this is a crazy standard, because there are a whole lot of things that Jesus never talked about that we recognize as essential to Christian morality, ethics, and social justice.

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The Crusades (#157)

Ed asks about the Crusades: did the Catholic Church really launch brutal wars of colonization, invading Muslim ancestral lands with hordes of Catholic knights to rape, pillage, and steal the Middle East? Greg explains that much of what people think they know comes from Hollywood and isn't exactly what happened.

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