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…

The Message Behind the Movie Has Been REBOOTED!

My first book (originally published with Moody Press) has been updated and rebooted for the 2020’s! Ignatius Press reached out to me and asked about redoing this book for my Catholic audience, and it gave me a chance to include some material previously cut by the original publisher as well as add new insights from…

How to Think Well

Here is a talk I did for a series on “The Way, the Truth, and the Life” on introductory logic at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. The notes can be downloaded HERE.

Has Humanity Revolted Against Reality?

We seem to be living in an age of insanity. Crimes against children, born and unborn; marriage defiled and redefined; gender confusion; the looming terror of transhumanism . . . modern culture is twisting truth into lies and lies into truth. How did we get to this bizarre point in history? My guest Gary Michuta…

Was Jesus a False Prophet?

The Bible says that if a prophet’s predictions about the future do not come true, he is not from God (Deuteronomy 13 & 18). Was Jesus a false prophet? Some say he was because his prediction about when he would return in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24 cf. Mark 13; Luke 21) turned out to…

Douglas Beaumont on “Indie Thinker”

I had a fun conversation (not “debate”!) with Reed Uberman on his show Indie Thinker. Check it out HERE!

Is God Impossible?

When St. Thomas Aquinas wrote his great Summa Theologiae, he listed only two objections to the existence of God (the problem of evil and the apparent ability of science to explain everything), even though he tried to list at least three objections to each of his views. During my doctoral studies, however, I came across…