In Part 1 of a two-part series, Greg tackles Protestant apologist Gavin Ortlund’s 5 Reasons I Am Not Catholic , which shakes cradle Catholic Iris and others with evangelical critiques. Instead of playing the “rigged game” of ...
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Protestant Games, Part 1: Why Play By Protestant Rules? (#353)
Why do American evangelicals passionately support modern Israel, especially in conflicts like Israel-Iran? In the final part of our Seeking Roots, Finding the Church series, Greg Smith shares why Americans, including evangeli...
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Evangelicals and Israel, the Alamo and End Times (#352)
Why do evangelicals trust a Jewish canon finalized centuries after Christ over the Bible of the apostles? In part two of our Seeking Roots, Finding the Church series, Greg shares his journey from a Calvinist seminary where th...
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Why Do Protestants Choose the Bible of the Rabbis Over the Bible of the Apostles? (#351)
Why do American evangelicals love Holy Land trips, seder dinners, and supporting the modern state of Israel? In this first of a three-part series, "Seeking Roots, Finding the Church," Greg explores how evangelicals, seeking a...
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Why Evangelicals Choose Galilee Over St. Peter’s (Seeking Roots, Finding the Church, Part 1) (#350)
Greg Smith tackles Catholic and Protestant views on sex, asking: whose take is stranger? From marriage as a sacrament to celibacy as a gift and Mary’s perpetual virginity, he defends Catholic teachings as biblical and healthy...
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Who's View of Sex is Stranger? Catholic or Protestant? (#349)
Is Catholicism a house of cards, ready to collapse under one false teaching? In this episode, Greg responds to a listener—an evangelical exploring Catholicism—who fears he can’t be certain the Church is the truth. With fun an...
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Burritos, Bridges, and Truth: Why Catholicism Isn’t a House of Cards (#348)
Why does the Mass feel so formal, and how can you love it? In this episode, Greg responds to Darcy, a 25-year-old evangelical exploring Catholicism, who’s struggling with the Mass’s structure—repetition, kneeling, and call-an...
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Is The Mass Just "Going Through the Motions?" (#347)
In the final episode of the series on heaven, Greg and Cory explore the eschaton—the ultimate end of God’s plan, where Christ returns to renew creation as the New Heaven and New Earth. They unpack the biblical parallelism bet...
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What is Heaven? Part 6: New Heaven, New Earth, New Us (#346)
Greg and Cory delve into the radical Christian teaching of the physical resurrection of the body, a cornerstone of Catholic eschatology that sets Christianity apart from other worldviews. They explore how the resurrection res...
Greg and Ed unpack a recent experience at a casual evangelical worship service, contrasting its informal, emotion-driven approach with the objective beauty of the Catholic Mass. They describe a service filled with pop culture...
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Sublime or Subjective? A Tale of Two Services (#344)
In this lively episode of Considering Catholicism, Greg and Ed the Protestant tackle a listener’s critique that the show is too harsh on Protestants, sparking a candid discussion over tacos. They reflect on their tone, owning...
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Raging Tacos: Are We Too Hard on Protestants? (#343)
Greg and Cory explore the three destinations awaiting every soul after the particular judgment: heaven, hell, and purgatory. They unpack Catholic teaching on these eternal and temporal states, using Dante’s Divine Comedy and ...
In this continuation of the series about Heaven, Greg and Cory dive into the Catholic teaching on judgment, exploring the two moments every soul faces: the particular judgment at death and the final judgment at the end of tim...
Ever wonder why medieval manuscripts show knights fighting giant snails or rabbits wielding swords? Or why Gothic cathedrals are covered in grinning gargoyles and quirky carvings? In this episode, Greg dives into a wild X thr...
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Killer Rabbits and Gargoyles: What Medieval Art Teaches Catholics Today (#340)
Greg Smith and Cory Lakatos dive into the profound question of what happens when we die. In this second episode of the Heaven series, they explore the separation of soul and body, the particular judgment, and the three interm...
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What is Heaven? Part 2: The Moment of Death (#339)
Join Greg Smith and Cory Lakatos as they kick off a deep dive into Catholic teaching on Heaven. In this first episode, they lay the foundation by defining key terms like "soul," "heaven," "purgatory," "beatific vision," and m...
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What is Heaven? Part 1: Checking Our Vocabulary (#338)
Greg Smith reflects on the joyful inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, unpacking its rituals, from the emotional moment Leo received the Fisherman’s Ring to the inclusive rite of obedience. He answers w...
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Peter’s Keys, Leo’s Tears: The Joy of a New Pope (#337)
What’s “Reformed” theology today? Greg Smith, a former Reformed pastor, unravels the tweed-coated posturing of a brand that claims intellectual edge but feels like evangelicalism with elbow patches. From preaching TULIP to qu...
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Is "Reformed Theology" Just Tweed-Coated Evangelicalism? (#336)
Greg addresses conservative non-Catholic friends asking if Pope Leo XIV is “red” or “blue,” arguing that the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church transcends American political categories. Acknowledging concerns about Pope Francis’s...
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Is Pope Leo XIV Red or Blue? Why That’s the Wrong Question (#335)
Hours after white smoke announced Pope Leo XIV, Greg reflects on Cardinal Robert Prevost’s election as the first American pope. Exploring Leo XIV’s choice of name, traditional regalia, and call to “build bridges,” Greg sees hope for a pope who unites past and future, left and right, in a tumultuous…
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Habemus Papam! Why I’m Loyal to the Church Under Leo XIV (#334)
Dive into the wild Tartaria conspiracy and discover a deeper truth: modernity bulldozed a sacred way of life, but Catholicism holds the key to reclaiming it. Host Greg explores how cathedrals, G.K. Chesterton, and the Mass co...
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Tartaria or Catholicism? Rediscovering a Lost Civilization (#333)
In this episode, Greg Smith dives into Flannery O’Connor’s bold claim: “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.” Reflecting on his own conversion and a pivotal moment on Ireland’s Skellig Michael, Greg explores why the realit...
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Cosplay or Catholicism? Are Sacred Things Really Sacred? (#332)
What kind of pope does the Church need today? In this episode, Greg argues against the modern expectation of a charismatic, media-savvy “influencer” pope, reflecting on how John Paul II’s global brand set a new standard that ...
Greg dives into the Vatican politics shaping the 2025 papal conclave, revealing a 60-year fight for the Church’s soul between the Concilium and Communio visions born after Vatican II. While Concilium ’s openness to modern cul...
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Inside the Conclave: The 60-Year Fight Over the Church’s Vision (#330)
