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July 2023

July 12, 2023

212: Evangelicals, Here’s How to Look for a New Church! (w/ Rod Bennett)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by my good friend, Catholic convert,...

March 2023

March 29, 2023

198: Why We Left Catholicism – and Why We Came Back (w/ The Catholic Brothers)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, in one of the most enjoyable episodes to...

March 15, 2023

196: The African Roots of Catholicism (w/ Mike Aquilina)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined once again by the incredible Mike...

July 2022

July 13, 2022

166: How the Early Church Read the Bible (w/ Mike Aquilina)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined once again by world renown Early...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

164: Bishops, Priests, and Deacons in the Early Church (w/ Joe Heschmeyer)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by Catholic Answers apologist extraordinaire Joe...

May 2022

May 25, 2022

159: The Apostles, Apostolic Succession, and the Early Church (w/ Rod Bennett)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined once again by my good friend...

May 04, 2022

158: Purgatory for Evangelicals (w/ Dr. Brett Salkeld)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined once again by Dr. Brett Salkeld,...

April 2022

April 13, 2022

155: The Jewish Catholic’s Journey into the Church (w/ Daniel Suazo)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by The Jewish Catholic, Daniel Suazo,...

March 2022

March 09, 2022

150: Irenaeus – Catholic or Evangelical? (w/ Dr. Matthew J. Thomas)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by Dr. Matthew J. Thomas to...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

148: Did Constantine Corrupt the Church? (w/ Joe Heschmeyer)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by Catholic Answers apologist Joe Heschmeyer...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

144: Where is the True Church? (w/ Erick Ybarra)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by Erick Ybarra, Catholic re-vert from...

January 05, 2022

141: The Catholic Witnesses of the Early Church (w/ Rod Bennett)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by the one-and-only Rod Bennett, author...

November 2021

November 03, 2021

134: How the Early Church Evangelized (w/ Mike Aquilina)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined once again by renown patristics scholar...

June 2021

June 22, 2021

115: How the Bible Made an Evangelical Seminary Professor a Catholic (w/ Dr. Douglas Beaumont)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by one of our most popular...

May 2021

May 05, 2021

108: The Eucharist in the Early Church (w/ Dr. Kenneth Howell)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by Dr. Kenneth Howell to talk...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

103: Mary’s Voice in the Gospel of John (w/ Dr. Michael Pakaluk)

In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Michael Pakaluk to talk about his fantastic new...

March 03, 2021

099: The Unintended Consequences of the Reformation (w/ Dr. Brad Gregory)

In this episode, I'm joined by Reformation scholar and historian Dr. Brad Gregory to talk...

February 2021

February 24, 2021

098: Is the Papacy True? (w/ Joe Heschmeyer, Dr. Gavin Ortlund, and Austin Suggs)

In our second crossover episode, I'm joined by Austin Suggs from Gospel Simplicity as we...

February 17, 2021

097: What Did the Early Church Believe About Mary? (w/ Mike Aquilina)

In this episode of the podcast I'm joined by Early Church expert, author, and popular...

February 06, 2021

How the Eucharist Blew My Mind

When I became an Christian at the age of fifteen or so I joined an...

December 2020

December 09, 2020

Would the Early Christians Be Welcomed by Evangelicals?

Rod Bennett was deep in the Jesus People movement when he found a copy of...

December 09, 2020

089: Were the Early Christians Catholic? (w/ Rod Bennett)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast I talk with author and Early Church...

December 02, 2020

088: The Biblical and Historical Mary (w/ William Albrecht and Father Christiaan Kappes)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I'm joined by William Albrecht and Father...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

083: What You Need to Know About the Pope (w/ Joe Heschmeyer)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I'm joined by the incredible Joe Heschmeyer...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

067: An Evangelical Bible Scholar Becomes Catholic

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I'm joined by theologian and author Dr....

June 2020

June 17, 2020

Why Are Catholic Bibles Bigger?

When I became a Christian at the age of fifteen one of the first things...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

061: What is Apostolic Succession and Why Does it Matter? (w/ Bishop Thomas Dowd)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by Bishop Thomas Dowd of the...

April 2020

April 08, 2020

054: What We Know about the Relics of the Passion of Christ (w/ Dr. Cheryl White)

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I'm joined again by Dr. Cheryl White,...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

031: Was the Early Church the Catholic Church? (w/ Mike Aquilina)

In this episode, I'm joined by Mike Aquilina, best-selling author of over fifty books on...

October 29, 2019

Three Things to Tell Your Evangelical Friends About Catholicism

I was a very happy, mostly holy, evangelical Christian when I began to dig into...