Glenn Hastings
Saints & Sinners
You’ve heard of saints. You’ve heard of sinners. But history rarely introduces them that way. Saints & Sinners is a short-form storytelling podcast that dives into the gritty, human, and often uncomfortable moments that shaped the Catholic Church — and the souls inside it. From martyrs and missionaries to rebels and reformers, each episode unearths the tension between grace and failure, courage and compromise, heaven and hell. Told in a cinematic style inspired by The Way I Heard It, these stories withhold the name until the end — because sometimes you need to walk beside a soul before you
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Glenn Hastings
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Latest episode
May 19, 2026
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Episodes
The Price of Purity | Ep. 14 19.05.2026 15:21
She was only a child. The world would call it violence. She called it something else. In a moment where most would break, she made a choice — one that would cost her everything… and echo far beyond her final breath. This is a story about innocence, brutality, and a kind of forgiveness that doesn’t make sense. Some virtues are admired. Others are paid for. Saints rise. Sinners fall. And history bea...
The Thread of Hope | Ep. 13 05.05.2026 8:22
He went looking for truth… and found darkness instead. What began as curiosity turned into something far more dangerous — a descent that left him lost, restless, and on the edge of despair. Until someone placed something simple in his hands. Not a weapon. Not an argument. A thread. What followed wasn’t instant. It was slow. Quiet. Almost unnoticed. But sometimes the smallest things are strong enou...
Frankenstein's Big Idea | Ep. 12 21.04.2026 11:17
A man loses a leg. Then decides he doesn’t need it back. Not in the way you’d expect. What follows is an idea so strange it sounds like fiction… until you realize it’s not. This is a story about suffering, sacrifice, and a question most of us never think to ask: What if the body isn’t the thing that needs saving? Saints rise. Sinners fall. And history bears witness.
Hell Hath No Fury | Ep. 11 18.03.2026 21:33
They killed her husband. What followed wasn’t mourning. It was retribution. Fire answered fire. And a name once feared would one day be spoken in prayer. This is the story of vengeance… and what it becomes when grace finally breaks through. Saints rise. Sinners fall. And history bears witness.
Fury Road | Ep.10 03.03.2026 13:51
War has a way of exposing what a man really believes. When Bosnia erupted into chaos, most people ran from the gunfire. One man ran toward it — not for glory, not for politics, but for something far more dangerous: conviction. He carried no official rank. No government backing. No promise of survival. What he carried instead was faith — and a willingness to stand between violence and the vulnerabl...
Braveheart | Ep.9 17.02.2026 14:28
He was 12 years old. Too young to vote. Too young to drive. Old enough to die. When war came for the Church in Mexico, boys were expected to hide. This one volunteered. Captured, beaten, and forced to watch the execution of men he admired, he was given a choice: deny his faith — and live — or stand firm, and suffer what came next. What followed was not a battlefield victory, but a slow walk throug...
The Broken Collar | Ep.8 03.02.2026 8:34
They told him it was a small thing. Just a collar. Just a symbol. Just something no one would notice if it disappeared. The offer was simple: remove it — and live. What followed wasn’t a sermon or a speech. It was a moment. A quiet, brutal choice made on the edge of a river, with soldiers watching and history holding its breath. In a time when survival depended on pretending to be something you we...
A Knight at the Roxbeary | Ep.7 20.01.2026 9:01
An army is starving. A forest offers one last chance at survival. A knight goes in alone — and comes face to face with a beast that won’t back down. Pinned, bleeding, and outmatched, he refuses to let go… because surrender means death for more than just himself. Before crowns were offered. Before history took note. There was a fight that decided everything.
Mission Impossible: Total Recall | Ep.6 06.01.2026 17:25
He’s been called a saint. He’s been called a villain. And in modern headlines, he’s often reduced to a statue waiting to be torn down. But history is never that simple. This episode dives into one of the most recent controversial figures in Catholic and American history—set against the brutal reality of colonial expansion, missionary work, and the collision between faith, empire, and indigenous pe...
A Horse with No Name | Ep.5 23.12.2025 10:55
A battlefield buried in dust. A nation splintering under the weight of defeat. And then—when hope was spent—a rider appeared. No banner. No bloodline. No name. Some said the ground shook beneath his horse. Others swore the war turned the moment he charged. Was he flesh and blood… or something born from desperation and faith? This episode follows the rise of a legend forged where steel meets belief...
Blind Faith | Ep.4 09.12.2025 9:16
He was a hardened warrior—trained to obey, conditioned to kill, and trusted with one duty above all: make sure the king was truly dead. It should’ve been routine. It should’ve been forgettable. Instead, it became the moment that unraveled everything he thought he knew. This episode follows the life of a battle-scarred enforcer whose single act on a blood-soaked hill set off a chain reaction of con...
In the Beginning was the Word | Ep.3 25.11.2025 8:49
They weren’t soldiers. They didn’t wield swords or claim crowns. But they still managed to shake an empire. Two brothers from a distant city were sent to tame a wild and fractured frontier—not with fire, but with words. And when they arrived, they found a people hungry for the Gospel… but choked by a language they couldn’t understand. So they built a new one. What followed was a revolution—one wri...
Salt of the Earth | Ep.2 12.11.2025 18:14
He was a slave, a swindler, a brawler—and somehow, a pope. This is the story of a man who clawed his way up from the salt mines of Sardinia to the catacombs of Rome… only to divide the Church with mercy. Scandal followed him. So did chains, controversy, and one very bitter rival. But when the dust settled, he’d done the unthinkable: shattered the illusion that sainthood requires spotless beginning...
All Hallowed Out | Ep.1 31.10.2025 11:00
They say the veil between the living and the dead is always thin… but once a year, it wears paper-thin. And if you listen ever so closely - you might just hear it tear. This is the story of how three days came to be what most people think of one. But what if I told you that beneath the surface of this familiar trifecta lies a much older, stranger history? A story of ghosts and martyrs, of ancient...
Introduction 28.10.2025 2:28
Saints & Sinners pulls back the curtain on faith’s most haunting moments — where light and darkness meet, and history bleeds into eternity. Each episode unearths the battles, miracles, and souls that shaped the Church… and the world. Because in every age, there are saints who rise, sinners who fall — and history that bears witness.
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