Should You Convert to Catholicism? A Response to Dr. Gavin Ortlund

Are you a Protestant who’s considering becoming Catholic? Dr. Gavin Ortlund would have you consider some things first – and here I respond to his advice.

Gluten-Free or Non-Alcoholic Communion?

Due to modern ailments, there are many today who cannot physically tolerate ingesting gluten or alcohol. How, then, can they receive our Lord’s body and blood in the Eucharist during Communion? There are two errors that come from misunderstanding the Church’s teachings on the Eucharist. On one end of the spectrum (especially among Protestants, but…

Movies in Catholic Conversation

How to Answer Common Comebacks to Catholic Arguments: with Karlo Broussard

Here I have a discussion with my friend Karlo Broussard of Catholic Answers about his new book, “Meeting the Protestant Response” (a follow-up to his previous book, “Meeting the Protestant Challenge”). In this sequel, Karlo goes over numerous Protestant “comebacks” to Catholic claims based on Scripture, and we go over a few of them here.

“Why So Many Bible Scholars are Becoming Catholic; with Dr. Douglas Beaumont”

Would it Matter if Catholics Affirmed Sola Scriptura?

Does Anything Follow from Sola Scriptura? In what follows I will show that it would not matter if a Catholic were to affirm the foundational Protestant principle of Sola Scriptura (“Scripture Alone”). In fact I will argue that nothing relevant to the Catholic/Protestant debate actually follows from Sola Scriptura at all. What Is Sola Scriptura?…

Can Anything Good Come Out of Hollywood?

My interview with Carl Olson on The Message Behind the Movie!

What’s the Story? (“The Message Behind the Movie” Part 1)

HERE is my first video on the rebooted version of The Message Behind the Movie discussing story structure and how it communicates a movie’s message. You can purchase The Message Behind the Movie: Engaging Film Without Disengaging Faith (Reboot) anywhere, but you can help this channel at no additional cost to you by using this…

Can We Know Truth?

Her is a talk I did for a series on “The Way, the Truth, and the Life” on knowing Truth at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.

Catholic vs. Protestant Views on Communion (the Eucharist)

HERE is my recent interview on Catholic vs. Protestant views of Communion (the Eucharist)! In this episode of the Catholic Challenge, we discuss: What is the teaching of the Eucharist and how did it influence my conversion? What are the Old Testament roots for the Eucharist? How do we understand John 6? How do Protestants…