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The Nathan Jacobs Podcast — 118 episodes
Can You Perceive God? | How We Encounter the Divine Daily
Why Is Mary Called "Mother of God"? | An Orthodox Explanation
Why Realism Contradicts Evolution | Creationism & The Eastern Church Fathers (Part 2) | ft. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone
How Could the Angels Fall? | Why Satan Turned Against God
Does Science Contradict Genesis? | ft. Drs. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone (Part 1)
Why Would God Create Someone He Knows Will Be Damned?
Can the Devil Be Saved? | What the Church Fathers Actually Taught
The REAL Reason Movies Go Wrong
Why I Reject Evolution | An Orthodox Christian Perspective
Can You Trust Your Mind | Thomas Thorogood Clip
Why I Became Orthodox (Part 2) | Discovering the Church Fathers
He Was Making a Horror Film... Until THIS Happened
From Heretic to Orthodox: Everything I Thought About Christianity Was Wrong
Do the Church Fathers Reject Evolution?
Are Icons Idolatry?
From LSD to Orthodoxy: From Artist to Scholar to Filmmaker | ft. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone
The Essential Doctrine the West Lost: On Divine Energies
Can the Non-Orthodox Be Saved? A Dialogue | ft. Drs. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone
Resurrection Makes NO SENSE without Deification
The LIE about Modern Philosophy
Was The Virgin Mary Sinless? The Answer May Surprise Protestants
The Truth About Why Christians Worship on Sundays
Can Dogs Go to Heaven? Theology Explained
God’s Omnipotence Explained: Can God Really Do Anything?
Is the Universe God's Body?
What is Mount Athos like during Holy Week?
How Humanity is Reconciled to God: Penal Substitution vs. the Early Church | with Fr. Joseph Lucas
A Guide for Christians to Engage Non-Believers
The Religiously Unaffiliated Did Not Reject God — They Rejected Western Christianity
The Modern Religious Debate Lost Its Audience
Do Christians, Jews, and Muslims Worship the Same God?
Defining "God" | The Evolution of a Word
Did Greek Philosophy Corrupt Christianity? On Greek, Jewish, and Christian Theologies
That Trinity Analogy is Heresy | Nicene Trinitarianism Explained
Has Science Disproved Free Will? | A Conversation With James Joiner
Free Will & Moral Responsibility | A Conversation with Dr. James Joiner
How the Devil Tried to Steal Christmas | The True Story of the Nativity
The Cosmic Longing of Christmas | All Creation Groans
The Christian East & West Divide
Entertaining Angels | Tales of Christian Hospitality
The Realism of Symbology | A Conversation with Jonathan Pageau
The Lived Philosophy of Early Christianity | The Last Five Ecumenical Councils
The True Christian Philosophy | The Metaphysics of the Ecumenical Councils
The Question Behind the Seven Ecumenical Councils | Who Do You Say I Am?
A Postscript on Slavery & Genocide | From Mosaic Law to the Church Fathers
The Problem of Hell
When God Commands Death | Can Genocide Be Justified?
The Polygamy Question | Immoralities in the Bible
Is Slavery Morally Wrong? Immoralities in the Bible? Part 1 of 3
Orthodox Foundations
Political, Personal, & Pastoral | What to Do With Moral Truth?
Nature & Grace | The Great Divide Between East & West | Part 6 of 6
The Morality of LGBT (and other hot button issues) | Beyond the Bible
The Evolution of Ethics | Realism: from John Locke to Woody Allen | Ethics & Anthropology | Part 4
The Secret Hand Behind History: Providence or Chaos? | Part 3
The Slow Death of Morality | How Modern Ethics Sold Its Soul | Part 2 of 4
The Pagan Blueprint For the Good Life | Plato, Aristotle, & the Stoics
Transformed by the Eucharist | Body or Bread? | Part 2 of 2
Understanding the Eucharist | Sacramentalism East vs West | Part 1 of 2
Therapy & the Eastern Church Fathers | Merits & Demerits of Secular Therapy | with Dr. Adam Dell
On David, Giant Slayer | Not Your Mama’s Sunday School Story | With Fr. Stephen De Young
Does Jesus Claim to Be God? | A Closer Look at Nicene Trinitarianism
Consciousness, Reality, and the Human Condition | What It Means to Be Human
A Second Round on Penal Substitution | Misunderstanding the Bible and the Fathers
A Reality Check for Crazy Times | Longing for More than Nominal Culture
Penal Substitution: East vs West | Perspectives on the Atonement
To a Mother on the Loss of Her Children | A Theological Letter on Suffering
God & the Fate of Judas, Natural Disasters, and Other Evils | Your Questions on the Problem of Evil
Does God Know the Future? | Contrasting East & West
The Fall, Demons, Animal Pain, & the 8th Day of Creation | The Eastern Fathers & the Problem of Evil
The Purpose of Creation | The Eastern Fathers & The Problem of Evil | Part 5 of 6
Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle on Orthodoxy | Defining (part of) the East-West Divide
Christ’s Descent into Hades | A Theological Letter
Providence in the Eastern Church Fathers | Problem of Evil | Part 4 of 5
Groundwork for an Eastern Patristic Theodicy | The Problem of Evil | Part 3 of 4
The Problem of Evil | On the Complexity of Divine Choice | Part 2 of 3
The Problem of Evil | Free Will, Divine Will, & A World Without Sin
Sophistication of Early Church Fathers | An Interview With Hank Hanegraaff
Can the Rich Be Saved? | Wealth, Asceticism, & Salvation
On Apokatastasis & Universal Salvation | Will Christ Rescue All From Hell?
Misunderstanding Mystery | The Place of Philosophy in Orthodoxy
Hollywood Taxidermy | The Rise of the IP Serial Killer
Is God Truly Hidden | The Problem of Divine Hiddenness | Part 3 of 3
Is Non-Resistant Unbelief in God Possible? | The Problem of Divine Hiddenness | Part 2 of 3
On the Problem of Divine Hiddenness | Is Rational Unbelief in God Possible?
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Storytelling | The Taxidermy of Hollywood
A Historical & Biblical Defense of Icons | An Interview With Hank Hanegraaff
Faith, Works, & Mary, Mother of God | An Interview With Hank Hanegraaff
The Virgin Mary: Grinch Slayer | Christian Tradition & the Devil
Man's Place in the Cosmos | The Longing of Creation
Fated or Free | The Mechanics of Choice
On Free Will | A Defense of Libertarian Freedom
My Wild Ride to Orthodoxy | LSD, Art, Hell, and Heresy
Darwin, Adoption, & Double Effect | Episode 25
Ghosts, Aliens, and Hades | Encounters With the Spiritual Realm
Archetypes, Inspiration, & Christianity | A Reply to Jordan Peterson & Richard Dawkins
Paranormal Case Files | Behind the Scenes of The Conjuring | Fr. Maximos McIntyre
Diagnosing Demons | Exorcising the Mental Health Industry | Dr. Jeffrey M. Jones
The Sin of Self-Actualization | Werewolves, Mummies, & Doppelgangers
On Belief in Fairies
Why Would God Make the Damned?
Elon, Help! Let's Make Logic Great Again
The Ideology of Hell | Nominalism & the Liberation of the Individual
Longing, Nostalgia, & Spiritual Simplicity
The Healing Power of Beauty | A Heterodox Guide to Trauma | Dr. Timothy Patitsas
Ontology & Religious Art
The AI Episode | Art, Consciousness, & the New Ouija
The Great Toilet Paper Debate | A Metaphysician Weighs In
Aliens, Giants, & Other Lore | Fr. Stephen De Young
The Case for Realism | Confessions of a Former Nominalist
The Rise & Fall of the Religiously Unaffiliated | Part 2 of 2
The Anatomy of the Religiously Unaffiliated | Part 1 of 2
Dr. Jacobs Answers Audience Questions
The Myth of Enlightenment
Liberalism & The Demise of the West
Language & Cultural Appropriation
On God’s Essence, Energies, & Simplicity | David Bradshaw
The Most Important Question