Why Do Men Have Nipples, The Beautiful Girl Never Chose Me, How Do I Share Christ Without Being That Guy | ACW376
Ask Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute
4.9 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Questions answered this episode:
- Is there any insight through the lens of theology of the body as to why God gave male humans and male mammals nipples? It has always baffled me.
- When I was 14, I watched the first person I ever loved choose my best friend instead of me, right in front of my eyes. This event seared into my body a story, or perhaps a lie, which is: the most beautiful one will never choose me. Since then, I've been obsessed with finding the perfect girl and somehow convincing her to love me. As you can imagine, this has led to several failed dating relationships that all followed the same pattern of initial infatuation, disillusionment, and finally separation. I recently went back to confession for the first time in several years, and after telling the priest this story, he counseled me to meditate on the doctrine of election—that God, the most beautiful one, has already chosen me. I am so thankful for God's love, but I can't help feeling it is insufficient to meet this need and heal my wound. After all, didn't God choose me purely out of His own grace and love rather than because of anything in me that was desirable or beautiful? How then can I trust that I am worthy of love?
- As a disciple of Christ, I feel a desire to take his call to evangelize more seriously. I love my faith and want others to taste and see its beauty too. However, I’m not sure of the best approach. I have some secular coworkers, and the lifestyle they talk about seems so out of touch with the gospel. I’m not sure how to relate it to them without coming across as a goody-two-shoes. How can I go about spreading the word in situations such as those and shining the light of Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | From the Theology of the Body Institute, this is the Ask Christopher West podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi podcast podcast listeners. |
| 0:22.9 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode. Wendy, I'm happy to be with you. |
| 0:26.7 | Thanks, my love. I'm happy to be with you, Christopher. |
| 0:29.3 | Thank you. One way or another, our audience is going to laugh that we're having a brain fart. |
| 0:36.2 | No, about. |
| 0:58.3 | About whether or not we've already commented on this movie that we wanted to comment on today. Oh, right. Because if we have commented on this movie already, they're going to think, they already talked about that. Right. And if we haven't, they're going to think, well, they're having a brain fart anyway because they can't remember if they've already talked about it. So one way or the other, deal with our, we're in our 50s, we have brain farts and we're having one now. I'm sure we've had repeat bant topics. That's what we |
| 1:05.4 | call our little open conversation. Yes, we're banting. Right. We've also repeated a question, answered the same question more than once. |
| 1:13.4 | You told me that only recently. Yes. So. And how did you learn that we repeated a question? The person who submitted the question came to a course at BlackRock and told me, you've answered my question on two different episodes. |
| 1:24.6 | The same question. The very same. It wasn't resubmitted. It wasn't, |
| 1:27.9 | it wasn't resubmitted. It was the same question that we answered twice and we didn't even catch it. |
| 1:33.0 | So the people are paying attention. Yeah, there you go. Well, the movie we wanted to tell you about, |
| 1:38.7 | or maybe we've already told you about it. We can't remember. |
| 1:45.5 | Tell them about it, Wendy. |
| 1:51.5 | Yes, so you are the one who found out about it, and so I don't know how you learned of... Our son Isaac told me to watch it. |
| 1:53.1 | How did he learn of it? |
| 1:54.4 | From a girl he knew it at college. |
| 1:57.0 | Okay. |
| 1:57.7 | It's called The Ballad of Wallace Island. The Ballad of Wallace Island, correct? |
| 2:04.2 | Yes, and it's set in England. Some island off the coast. Right. Yeah. Guess what the island's called. |
| 2:12.3 | I think it's called Wallace Island. I think it's called Wallace Island. Yes. So, yeah, what do you want to say about that movie? |
| 2:18.2 | Well, you know I like music. |
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