Today's Catholic Moment (with John Hoyum)

In the past few years, Roman Catholicism (and to a lesser extent Eastern Orthodoxy) has been attractive to people (including younger people) looking for tradition, beauty, and stability in a world that is often chaotic. What are the "pitfalls and possibilities" (to quote Doc Brown) of this 'Current Catholic Moment'? John Hoyum, a Lutheran pastor and academic, joins Andrew and James on the podcast today to discuss this topic and things related to it. This conversation was inspired from his recent article "Reformation Christians and the Current Catholic Moment". SHOWNOTES: In today's episode, James brings up the book Long Before Luther: Tracing the Heart of the Gospel from Christ to the Reformation 

John brings up the following resources (which he also references in his article above): -video of Ryan Burge's statistical analysis of the alleged religious revival -Daphne Hampse's book Christian Contradictions: The Structures of Lutheran and Catholic Thought

-Jaroslav Pelikan's book The Riddle of Roman Catholicism

-Herman Sasse's book Here We Stand