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Beneath the Surface - Equality

Are all men created created equal?  Is equality something to be grasped at?  Let's go beneath the surface.

Beneath the Surface - Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Lent is a time to meditate on how best to overcome temptation. Christ was tempted in the desert in his 40 day journey, and we are tempted every day in some form or another. Jesus taught His disciples to pray that the Father 'lead us not into temptation'. What does He mean? Let's go beneath the surface.

Beneath the Surface - Lent in the Age of Hedonism

I go beneath the surface with my guest Tom Murphy on the purpose of sacrifice and penance and the challenge of living Lent in an age of self indulgence.

Beneath the Surface - What Is Truth?

There can be no happiness outside of truth.  What is truth?  Let's delve beneath the surface.

Beneath the Surface - In God We Trust

It's on our money, but does our post-Christian culture really trust in God? 

Delve Beneath the Surface with Paul Murano and his guest Kent Niebuhr to get a handle on what this national motto means and how best we can answer this question.

Beneath the Surface - Problem of Evil

This show we tackle the age-old question: "Since God is all Good and all powerful, why is there evil and suffering in the world?"

Beneath the Surface - Meaning of Death

Why do we die?  Are we simply creatures of nature with a beginning and end?  What is the biblical message about man's gift of immortality and how it was squandered?  How ought we now look at human suffering and death?  Let's go beneath the surface.

 

Beneath the Surface - Ideology

In this show we go BTS on the topic of ideology. 

Beneath the Surface - Purpose of Fasting

What is the reason and purpose of fasting?

Beneath the Surface - Creed: One God

#2 in our series The Creed: Beneath the Surface

Episode 2: (i believe)  IN ONE GOD

Beneath the Surface - Creed: I Believe

Join Paul Murano in this first episode of a new Bts series on The Creed, called, The Creed: Beneath the Surface

 

Here we begin with Paul and his guest Bob Leblanc delving beneath the surface on the first two words of the Nicene Creed: I believe

 

Some of the questions tackled:

What the difference between belief and faith?

Belief and knowledge?

Can you believe and still not accept?

When is belief salvific?

 

Beneath the Surface - Equality

Are all men created created equal?  Is equality something to be grasped at?  Let's go beneath the surface.

Beneath the Surface - Universal Basic Income

Go beneath the surface with Paul Murano as he interviews John Tuturice on the notion of a Universal Basic Income - something Democratic candidates have been speaking about.  Is it social justice or socialism?

Beneath the Surface - MLK and His Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham jail was a profound exposition on the natural moral law. It has ramifications on morality and law for us today.  Fascinating discussion!

Beneath the Surface - Mary and the New Eve

It's fascinating how Mary in Scripture unties the knot Eve helped us get into. She is the new Eve inasmuch as she is the un-Eve that repeats the opposite of her predecessor.

Beneath the Surface - Scientism and Dogmatism

Scientism and secular progressivism "hate" dogma, but have as many dogmas as Christianity. The problem is they're not as rational.  In truth, what fuels these movements is not a hate of dogma, but of Christianity.

 

Go beneath the surface with Paul Murano and his guest Robert Leblanc to uncover the meaning of it all.

Beneath the Surface - Trinity: The Central Mystery of Christianity

How can God be both One and Three - without contradiction?  Give a listen to this insightful dialogue between Paul Murano and his guest Bob Leblanc on the foundational Christian mystery - One God revealed as three Persons, consubstantial and co-eternal.

Beneath the Surface - Who's the Boss?

Authority is found in every living body and community in the world, secular and religious.  Paul and guest Bob Leblanc delve beneath the surface on the meaning and purpose of authority - the beauty of its use and ugliness of its abuse.

Beneath the Surface - Why?

'Why?' is perhaps the most important question in the world.  We begin life asking it.  Why do we stop?  Let's go beneath the surface.

Beneath the Surface - The Incarnation

On the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Paul and Kent discuss one of the three greatest moments in the history of the universe: the Incarnation.