Catholic Waypoint

The Catholic Church betrayed its children. This episode doesn't look away from that. But it asks the question most people skip: when we say what was done was truly, permanently wrong — wrong before the law caught up with it, wrong when powerful men said otherwise — what standard are we actually using? And what does it mean that it grew inside the tradition that failed to live by it? Beginning...

In this episode, we explore one of the oldest and most serious arguments for the existence of God — the argument that the universe exists, but didn't have to. That everything you have ever seen, touched, or encountered is borrowed. That borrowed things require something to borrow from. And that the chain of borrowing has to end somewhere. What you're actually hearing in this episode is three disti...

Most people walking around with confident opinions about God have never actually examined the question. This video is for them. Six arguments. No preaching. No easy answers. Just the case that the question deserves more than the dismissal it usually gets — and that some of the most rigorous non-religious minds of the last century quietly agreed. Watch it. Then disagree with me in the comments.

In first-century Jerusalem, two legal systems operated side by side. One was built with more protections against wrongful execution than almost anywhere else in the ancient world. The other placed total authority in a single man with no obligation to justify his decisions to anyone. On a single night, both of those systems were used on the same man. One condemned him. One declared him innocent. He...

Every human culture that has ever existed has done the same thing. Separated by oceans, by millennia, by thousands of miles of wilderness — they all reached for something beyond the visible world. Plenty of serious people have tried to dismiss it. But the more you push on it, the harder it becomes — and the more uncomfortable the alternative gets. Because if the reaching is universal, if nothing i...

Most people would say doubt is healthy. Intelligent, even. But what if that's too easy an answer? This episode takes one question seriously — not as a theological problem, but as a moral one. If you've spent years examining your doubts and never moved, is that still honesty? Or has it quietly become something else? Four people. Four different conclusions. No clean answers.

Most people think faith means believing something you can't prove. The atheist rejects it on those grounds. The believer defends it on those grounds. And neither of them has gone back to check whether those are the actual grounds. They aren't. The Greek word the New Testament uses for faith — pistis — didn't mean belief. It meant loyalty. Commitment. The word a Roman soldier used when he swore an...

One of the most widely recognised names in human history belongs to a man who ruled no kingdom, commanded no army, and ended his life on a Roman cross. By every measure Rome had developed for dealing with troublemakers, his story should have ended there. It didn't. In this episode, we put Jesus of Nazareth back into the world he actually lived in — a world of mass crucifixions, failed messiahs, an...