Shameless Popery

Joe shares an excellent method for discussing abortion with those who disagree, bringing calm and respect to a tense and uncomfortable debate.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and the conversation around abortion can feel completely hopeless because the two sides are intractable because there’s never any seeming movement in one way or the other. And we just seem to be as a people locked into this perpetual fight over this incredibly important issue. And so today I want to share some things you can do that actually make a difference, some things ...

Joe examines how Halloween invites us to “memento mori,” or remember death.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and the spooky season is upon us with Halloween just around the corner. And I know many Christians aren’t sure of what to make of Halloween, because as a holiday, it can strike many of us as unholy because of what seems like a weird fascination with darkness and death. And I wanna be very clear at the outset that sometimes people do celebrate Halloween in a way where they’re celebrating things that are wicked. There&...

Joe examines what many Protestant apologists get right (and wrong) about John 6. Yes, Jesus is using metaphor. And that’s why we should worship Him in the Eucharist.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And last week I did a three hour long Q&A with students at the Catholic Center at Fort Hayes State University, and some of their questions were preselected and they got to vote on them by popularity. The most popular question that they asked was this, “Why do Catholics take Jesus literally when he refers to himself as the bread of life, bu...

Joe looks at how Muslims interpret the Quran to explain how Jesus wasn’t really crucified.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery, and today I wanna look at the Quran’s claims about Jesus and the crucifixion and explain why I think that those claims are false, and in fact, why I think they can be shown to be false. But I wanna start with first making sense of just what it is that the Qur’an claims happened to Jesus. In Sarah four, verses 157 to 158, Allah accuses the Jews of boasting, “We killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.” ...

Joe examines the evidence for the Sign of the Cross as an ancient Christian practice.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and why do Catholics make the sign of the cross? If you’re not Catholic, should you be making the sign of the cross yourself? And broadly speaking, Protestants fall into three groups on this question. Those who use the sign of the cross, those who think it’s harmless, and those who think it’s actually dangerous. In the first group, you’re gonna get Lutherans and Anglicans who often make the sign of the cross i...