Shameless Popery

Why did the sinless Jesus receive John’s baptism? Joe Heschmeyer explains how Christ “fulfills all righteousness,” inaugurates his ministry, and sanctifies the waters—making Christian baptism effective, not merely symbolic.

After Joe’s debate with LDS apologist Jacob Hansen, there’s been a lot of chatter on the topic of the Great Apostasy. Joe breaks down why this can’t be true from both an LDS and a Protestant perspective. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And since my recent debate with LDS apologist Jacob Hansen, there’s been a lot of great conversation on this idea of whether the church built by Jesus Christ fell into an apostasy. But today I don’t want to talk about the global church. I want to get very particular. Did the church in Rom...

Joe shows how the Finding of Jesus In The Temple prefigures the Resurrection, and what this means for the faithful. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Happy New Year. I want to talk about the finding in the template. It’s a strange event in the Bible that many of us just heard about this past Sunday. Specifically, I want to ask, how and why did Joseph and Mary lose Jesus in the temple in the first place? I’ve actually seen people argue that this event proves that Mary must have had other kids. As one Twitter user put it, if Mary only had on...

Joe examines Thomas Aquinas’ Christmas reflection, and why Christmas and the Nativity weren’t actually necessary. Transcript: Joe: Merry Christmas and welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And today I want to talk about a Christmas sort of isn’t necessary because the incarnation sort of wasn’t necessary. Now that might sound heretical, might sound insane for a Christian to say, but I think it’s actually an important thing for us to get right. And for support, I would point to the arguments made by people like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aqui...

Joe gives his opening statement from his debate with LDS apologist Jacob Hansen on The Great Apostacy. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, and Mormons all agree that Jesus Christ founded a church. After all, he tells us that he’s founding a church. But most of us also agree that people can fall away from the faith. This falling away in Greek is apostasia, which is where we get words like apostate and apostasy. But Mormons and many Protestants believe that not only can individuals fall away from the church, but tha...