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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 190 minutes
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Keith Nester is a former Protestant pastor who spent over 20 years in ministry before becoming Catholic in 2017. Now a full-time evangelist, author, and speaker, he helps others navigate the convert’s journey through his book The Convert’s Guide to Roman Catholicism and his YouTube channel and podcast Catholic Feedback. Keith leads Down to Earth Ministries and brings a bold, relatable voice to the faith—all from his home base in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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0:00.0 | Pines with Aquinas is brought to you by Truthly, which is a groundbreaking Catholic AI app built to help you know, live and defend the Catholic faith. |
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0:14.7 | Has the internet killed Protestantism? |
0:17.2 | I think that if we in the Catholic space think our job is to use the internet to destroy Protestantism, we're never going to succeed. |
0:24.6 | Instead, show them how being a Catholic is going to make you a saint. |
0:28.6 | We don't have these divergent issues on things like whether or not you can lose your salvation or justification by faith or a faith alone. |
0:35.6 | If you want to know what the church teaches on a given |
0:38.4 | subject, you can find the answer, and every Catholic has to agree with that when it comes down |
0:43.6 | to the dogmas of the Christian faith. But do you think with the online fighting, we sometimes |
0:49.0 | overplay the divergence within Protestantism and the unity within Catholicism. Wow, that's a great question. |
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1:12.4 | to support the channel we really appreciate it it's so good to have you back on the show thank you for |
1:17.1 | agreeing thank you for having me matt i have to tell you i can't go anywhere without several people |
1:24.5 | coming up to me saying that interview that you did with Matt on Pines |
1:28.1 | with Aquinas has changed my life. Oh, come on. I'm dead serious. I've never seen a reaction |
1:33.7 | to a video that I've been a part of more than, and it's not just people going, oh, that was fun |
1:37.8 | to watch. It's people whose lives were changed, Matt. They were converted. I've had so many people |
1:43.2 | tell me that even to this. |
1:44.7 | It's been over a year since we recorded that. Yeah. And people continue to come up to me. |
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