When I Almost Became Catholic (#112)

Religion on the Mind

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Spirituality

4.7 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Listener, patron, and Roman Catholic convert Jack Huber interviews me about my history with Catholicism in all its forms and the time that I got very close to becoming a Catholic.Follow Dan on IG: https://www.instagram.com/dancoke/Or Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanKochFaith deconstruction resources: soyouredeconstructing.comEdited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia@gmail.com -- he is accepting more work!)Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankochEmail about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.comYHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98Website: youhavepermissionpod.comJoin Dan's email list: dankochwords.comArtwork by http://sprungle.co/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.7	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.5	They think they're better than us.
0:08.5	Who do you think you are?
0:09.8	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.5	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.3	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:24.2	My name is Dan Koch.
0:26.1	Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:30.9	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.
0:39.3	I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as former Christians and non-religious
0:44.9	folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions about God, science, prayer, fate,
0:58.9	suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with pure intentions. I want to say that
1:05.4	you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very seriously. And I hope to facilitate that by
1:13.7	introducing you to people seeking God across the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions
1:19.5	in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening. I don't really want to say much in this introduction because I don't want to give away any of the narrative here, but this is a conversation with a patron of the show Jack Huber, who interviewed me about the time that I almost became a Catholic. He himself is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Some of you are thinking, how in the hell could you ever have gotten close to become a Catholic? Other is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Some of you are thinking, how in the hell could you
1:45.7	ever have gotten close to becoming Catholic? Others of you are thinking, yeah, I could see that.
1:50.7	And actually, I'm kind of interested myself. I'm sure we have a large range of sort of beginning
1:57.6	stances. And it'll be very interesting to hear from you guys about what you think
2:02.3	about this episode.
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