Episodes
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
The Road to Emmaus - Supernatural Conversion
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
How did St. Paul go from having insurmountable objections to Christ to being one of Christianity’s most ardent defenders? In this episode, learn why St. Paul tells us we should believe that Jesus is Lord.
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Thursday Mar 18, 2021
The Road to Emmaus - Sacred Suffering
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Why did Jesus have to suffer and die? God could have just forgiven our sins, but God wanted to give us more than just acquittal—he wanted to gives us his divine life. Scott Hahn reminds us that because we’re in God’s family, our life—including our suffering—has meaning.
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Thursday Mar 11, 2021
The Road to Emmaus - God's Wrath Gives Us What We Want
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
What happens when we turn our backs on God? God respects our freedom, even our freedom to say no to his mercy. On this episode, Scott Hahn explains God’s wrath—but also his mercy.
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Thursday Mar 04, 2021
The Road to Emmaus - Experience of Love in Family
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Seven isn’t just a lucky number. Through the covenant rhythm of the Old Testament, God teaches his people what it means to be in his divine family, preparing them for the coming of his Son. In this episode, see how radical it is for us to be sons and daughters of the Father Almighty.
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Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
The Road to Emmaus - Love in Action
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
The Road to Emmaus - New Evangelization During Lent
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
The Road to Emmaus - Theology of the Body: Eucharistic and Mystical
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is about much more than sex—it's a theology of the human person. And the human person is relational—we’re born into a family, both human and divine. On this episode, Scott Hahn shares what this means for us, and how the Eucharist is the key to understanding our life, death, and ultimately our resurrection.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
More Rules for Joy with Chris Stefanick
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Joy isn’t just a feeling—it’s something we have to fight for and decide to live out, just like the faith. But this means that joy is something everyone can attain! On this episode, Chris Stefanick returns to talk with Scott Hahn about four more rules for living joy and what it means to be joyful.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
**Bonus Episode** St. Paul: Extraordinary Convert and Saint
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Our patron, St. Paul, isn’t any ordinary saint. He went from persecutor of the Church to her defender—and one of the most prolific writers of Holy Scripture. The Church calendar reflects St. Paul’s extraordinary mission by remembering the day of his miraculous conversion. On this bonus episode of The Road to Emmaus, Scott Hahn discusses St. Paul’s influence on his own conversion and on the Church.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Chris Stefanick’s Rules for Joy
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
A global pandemic and a tumultuous political climate have made it difficult to remember what matters most—Jesus and our relationship with Him. How can we look past our worldly trials to the divine reality that Jesus is Lord of all? Chris Stefanick joins Scott Hahn on this episode to share a couple rules to help us find a joy that is everlasting and unshakable.
Monday Jan 18, 2021
How to Handle Our Own Pharisees
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
We know the story of the Pharisees waiting to trip Jesus up when he heals on the Sabbath. But have you ever noticed that there’s something strange about the question Jesus asks them? On this episode, learn how Jesus’ example helps us navigate the Pharisees in today’s world with wisdom and humility.
Monday Jan 18, 2021
The Future of Our Church and Society with Special Guest Brandon McGinley
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
We’ve been taught by the world to think of religion as a personal choice. All religions are equal. They have no claim on our public life. In this episode, Scott Hahn and his co-author Brandon McGinley debunk this view to show that religion is much more than opinion. In fact, they argue that the very future of our Church and civilization depend on reclaiming the true meaning of religion.
Friday Jan 15, 2021
The Saint We Need for the New Year
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
2020 was difficult. But God provides us with the grace we need to follow His will. And for 2021, He’s given us one of the strongest intercessors we could ask for: St. Joseph. As we enter into the Year of St. Joseph, Scott Hahn urges us to look to the Patron of the Universal Church as our spiritual father.
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Christmas with St. Joseph
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Christ and His Mother hold a special place in the Nativity story—but St. Joseph also plays an important yet often underrated role. On this special Christmas episode of The Road to Emmaus, Scott Hahn shares his personal devotion to St. Joseph and what the father of Jesus teaches us about Christmas.
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Why St. Joseph? How can we grow closer to our spiritual father? Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, author of Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father, explains that St. Joseph is God’s gift to our world in the midst of the current crisis of family and fatherhood. In this episode, learn how we can turn to St. Joseph as a father and role model, especially during the Year of St. Joseph.
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Soldiers for Christ or Hostages to Culture?
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Can we really change culture? Shouldn’t we just accept the situation and live out the faith on our own the best we can? As Catholics living in a secular society, it can be easy to think that it’s best to keep faith and public life separate. But on this episode of The Road to Emmaus, Scott Hahn challenges the idea that sharing the faith is impractical or improper. Rather, it’s the most important thing we can do.
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Where Is Mary in the Bible?
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Where in the Bible does it say that Mary was immaculately conceived? Where does it say that she was assumed into heaven? On this episode of The Road to Emmaus, learn what made Scott Hahn open up to Catholic teaching on Mary and realize that she was indeed in Scripture.
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Converted by Scripture
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Dr. Jeff Morrow was raised Jewish but didn’t really believe in God. In college, he was invited to a Christian Bible study. He decided that to disprove Christianity, he had to become familiar with the Bible. But what he found surprised him—that the Bible was more historically reliable than any other ancient text. On this episode, learn how Dr. Morrow went from atheist to defender of Scripture, even co-authoring a book with Scott Hahn.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
From Islam to Christ with Dr. Derya Little
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Dr. Derya Little was born and raised in Muslim Turkey. She rejected her Islamic faith to become an atheist but then encountered Christ as an adolescent. It was during her doctoral studies in England that she entered the Catholic Church and now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and children. On this episode of The Road to Emmaus, learn what led her on this global journey to the Catholic faith.
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Is Jesus the New Moses?
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
As modern Catholics, we know that Jesus is God’s Plan A for our salvation. But if this is true, then why do we call Jesus the New Moses? On this episode of The Road to Emmaus, Scott Hahn explains that when we understand how the Old Testament points to the New, we see that Moses and many others prepare us for Christ.