From Protestant Pastor to Catholic Convert: A Conversation with Keith Nester | 10/9/25

Steve Deace Show

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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For this special edition of the "Steve Deace Show," Steve and the crew spend all two hours talking to former Protestant pastor turned Catholic apologist Keith Nester about his testimony and why he converted to Roman Catholicism. TODAY'S SPONSORS: RELIEF FACTOR: VISIT https://www.relieffactor.com/ OR CALL 800-4-RELIEF JASE MEDICAL: https://jasemedical.com/ and enter code “DEACE” at checkout for a discount on your order BEAM: https://shopbeam.com/products/sleep-powder?discount=steve&variant=40436356710455&selling_plan=787415095&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=steve and use code STEVE at checkout REAL ESTATE AGENTS I TRUST: https://realestateagentsitrust.com/ PREBORN: https://give.preborn.com/preborn/media-partner?sc=IABSD0123RA SELECT QUOTE: https://life.selectquote.com/termlife?sCode=HATQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And greetings, welcome to a special edition of the Steve Day Show here on Blaze TV radio and podcast, which means we're not live, but we are new.
0:30.0	It's a brand new episode for you. I am Steve Days alongside Todd Erzn and Aaron McIntyre.
0:36.9	And today we're going to have a more in-depth version of a conversation that in various forms we've already had.
0:44.4	But this one with a bit of a unique perspective.
0:47.3	In a minute, we're going to introduce you to somebody who used to be an evangelical minister
0:51.0	and now is a very outspoken Catholic apologist and he's involved in Catholic
0:57.1	ministry as well particularly men's ministry where he does that kind of speaking both here in our
1:01.4	home state of Iowa and elsewhere around the country I actually first got to know him or know of him
1:06.0	because he had a great review of nefarious my film film when it came out in 2023, and like our current
1:11.5	president, a great way to get access to me is to say something nice and kind, and it worked.
1:16.0	All right. But what's going to be fascinating about this, we're going to learn a little bit
1:19.0	about him, his faith journey. I will do my best to answer several of the snotty questions
1:25.9	that evangelicals like myself have towards Catholics,
1:29.8	which I'm sure he had to wrestle with in order to make the decision to end up within Catholicism.
1:35.4	And you'll be fascinated as I will be to hear his answers.
1:38.9	But I mean, these are, I mean, there are elements of this that we have touched on gentlemen
1:43.4	several times throughout the course of the iteration of this that we have touched on gentlemen several times
1:44.3	throughout the course of the iteration of this show. Todd, you and I did an entire, you know,
1:49.3	unit on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation way back in 2017. The study that we did in the
1:57.0	book of Romans, which by the time this airs might be done, we don't know, okay, included your use. So we each got to choose our own sort of spiritual guides to help us through
2:07.9	that. The elders we chose, Aaron chose R.C. Sprole. I chose Charles Spurgeon. You chose Scott Hahn,
2:13.3	who, like our guest here this afternoon, is also a former evangelical turned Catholic.
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