Episodes

  • #78 Did Angels Really Smite the Enemies of Israel? - Joe Heschmeyer

    #78 Did Angels Really Smite the Enemies of Israel? - Joe Heschmeyer
    May 23 2024
    In this episode, Joe Heschmeyer explores the historical evidence surrounding 2 Kings 19 and the mysterious destruction of the Assyrian armies. Transcription: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Hess Meyer. So I want to start with a strange passage from the Old Testament. It’s Isaiah 37, verse 36, and it says that the angel of the Lord went forth and slew 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when men arose early in the morning, behold these were all dead bodies. Then Rab King of Assyria departed and went home and dwelt at Nineveh. So this is a strange passage for a number…
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • #77 What Protestants Get Wrong about the Temple Veil - Joe Heschmeyer

    #77 What Protestants Get Wrong about the Temple Veil - Joe Heschmeyer
    May 16 2024
    Protestants sometimes object that we shouldn’t (or at least don’t need to) ask the Saints and angels for their prayers, since we can go directly to God. After all, they argue, the Temple veil that once impeded our access to God is now torn… right? That argument, which is also used against the Catholic priesthood, misinterprets this critical moment in the New Testament (and ignores the quite different way that the Epistle to the Hebrews interprets the same event). So what does it mean to say that the veil is now torn? Transcription: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m …
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • #76 A New Argument for Praying to the Saints - Joe Heschmeyer

    #76 A New Argument for Praying to the Saints - Joe Heschmeyer
    May 9 2024
    Asking Mary and the Saints to pray for us might seem (at best) inefficient or (at worst) like it undermines the sovereignty of God. But here’s an argument you may not have heard before about how the sovereignty of God is **better** revealed in the intercessory role of the saints and angels. Transcript: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Today, I want to explore what is, at least to me, a new answer or a new argument that I’ve heard to a question that if you are a Catholic, I’m sure you’ve heard many times, “Why pray to Mary, why pray to th…
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • #75 How Should Catholics Respond to Church Scandals? - Joe Heschmeyer

    #75 How Should Catholics Respond to Church Scandals? - Joe Heschmeyer
    May 2 2024
    The Catholic Church is no stranger to controversy and scandal, whether it be the Crusades or the Inquisition or the role of Catholics in the colonization of the New World, or more recent scandals like the sexual abuse scandal. And non-Catholics might hear about all of these things and wonder, “how can you remain Catholic despite these things?” Here are some straightforward tips about what to say in response to that question… and what NOT to say. Transcript: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. I want to discuss the issue of responding to scandal today. I’m g…
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • #74 What Jesus’ Radical Marriage Teaching Reveals About the Church - Joe Heschmeyer

    #74 What Jesus’ Radical Marriage Teaching Reveals About the Church - Joe Heschmeyer
    Apr 25 2024
    Modern Christians tend to misunderstand two of Jesus’ most radical teachings: his prohibition against divorce and remarriage, and his teaching about the Church. But what if this isn’t just a coincidence? After all, the biblical texts explaining marriage tend to do so by comparing it to Christ’s relationship with the Church, and vice versa. Does this explain why the Protestant Reformers broke with the earliest Christians (and the New Testament) on both of these doctrines? And also… does getting this wrong open the door to polygamy? Transcript: Welcome back to Sham…
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • #73 The Radical Nature of Jesus’ Teaching on Marriage - Joe Heschmeyer

    #73 The Radical Nature of Jesus’ Teaching on Marriage - Joe Heschmeyer
    Apr 18 2024
    Jesus’ teaching on marriage (and particularly on divorce and remarriage) is so radical that his stunned disciples respond, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry” (Matt. 19:10). So what is Jesus’ radical teaching, and why don’t more Christians know about (or follow) that teaching? And is it true that Jesus creates an “exception” for divorce and remarriage in cases of adultery? (Answer: no.) …
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • #72 What Should Catholics Think About Israel and the Jews? - Joe Heschmeyer

    #72 What Should Catholics Think About Israel and the Jews? - Joe Heschmeyer
    Apr 11 2024
    In light of the war between Israel and Palestine, accusations of anti-Semitism in the fight between Ben Shaprio and Candace Owens, and some of your own comments… how SHOULD Christians think of biblical Israel, the Jewish people, and the modern nation-state of Israel? What role, if any, does the Old Covenant play today? And is it heretical to speak of the Jewish people as still the “people of God” in any sense? …
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • #71 A Pharisee’s Test for Catholics, Protestants, Mormons & Muslims - Joe Heschmeyer

    #71 A Pharisee’s Test for Catholics, Protestants, Mormons & Muslims - Joe Heschmeyer
    Apr 4 2024
    In Acts 5, when the Apostles are on trial before the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel (the same Gamaliel that St. Paul studied under) provided a simple test to determine if a religion really came from God or not. So what was his test, and what does it mean for the credibility and legitimacy of Catholicism, Protestantism, Mormonism, and Islam? …
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute