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Shameless Popery

#255 Talking To My Favorite Protestant YouTuber (Catholicism and Orthodoxy) ft. Gospel Simplicity ​

Shameless Popery

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Having a chat with Austin Suggs from Gospel Simplicity about Catholicism, Orthodoxy and his personal faith journey. Transcript: Mike: Go ahead. Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, here to have a cup of Joe with my friend Austin Suggs of Gospel Simplicity. Austin, thank you so much for being with us. Austin: It is my pleasure. I just looked at, I don’t know if this is the public title for the conversation, but the one in StreamYard. Your favorite Protestant YouTuber. I’m touched, Joe. Joe: Yeah, I will say two things. One, Mike chose the title, but two, ...

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0:00.0

Go ahead. We're alive. Welcome back to Shemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmeier, here to have a cup of Joe with my friend Austin Suggs of gospel simplicity. Austin, thank you so much for being with us.

0:11.0

It is my pleasure. I just looked at, I don't know if this is the public title for the conversation, but the one in Stream Yard, your favorite Protestant YouTuber? I'm touched, Joe.

0:40.8

I will say two things. One, Mike chose the title, but two, I don't disagree with the title. I think I said something about that on a stream once and he was picking that up. I was like, ah, my favorite Protestant channel. So we're now committed to that quote forever. I'm going to put in my bio. Which I, you know, I've I've said things I've regretted much more.

0:44.8

Well, I'm glad it can be the most regretful thing you've said.

0:46.5

There we go.

1:12.0

So what we normally do in this channel, we have some coffee and talk about some issue of theology, apologetics, etc. So this morning got my coffee. I don't know if you've got anything on your end, Austin, but I didn't think to... You didn't send me the memo. I've got one. No, I apologize. It is called Cup of Joe, but I guess it's not self-explanatory. I didn't even realize that was the title. I think I was just both Thursday live streams.

1:13.7

Okay, it's all ruined from here.

1:15.0

Well, alas.

1:17.4

I've got to work on branding.

1:18.1

That's what I'm learning.

1:23.4

But in all seriousness, maybe you can introduce yourself and give us a little bit of your own background.

1:25.1

Yeah, for sure.

1:26.3

My name's Austin Suggs, which I find a lot of people don't know my name, even who

1:30.4

have watched my channel for a while.

1:31.8

I often get called Justin or just that gospel simplicity guy.

1:35.8

But yeah, Austin's my name, if people care to know that or use it.

1:39.6

I run the channel Gospel Simplicity, which I've been doing for a while, has recently

1:43.0

become my full-time job. I grew up in the evangelical church, eventually got interested in questions of

1:49.8

Catholicism and orthodoxy when I was studying theology during my undergrad at Moody. After my

1:55.8

undergrad at Moody, I went on to... For people who don't know, can you find it Moody is? Moody, yes.

2:01.1

The place where Bible is our middle name.

2:03.9

Moody Bible Institute is a Bible Institute out of Chicago.

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