Sunday School with Pat Flynn
Welcome to Sunday School, a weekly segment of The Pat Flynn Show, where we chat on the foundations and fruits of Christianity, covering apologetics, philosophy, and theology to better root your understanding of the Christian faith and more effectively equip you to evangelize and share the message with reason and confidence.
Episodes
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic evangelist Pat Flynn engages Dr. David Roehmer on his views of Physics, Metaphysics, and God (July 27, 2020)
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In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic apologist Pat Flynn engages Carrie Gress, PhD, concerning her books the The Anti-Mary Exposed and Theology of Home, offering a diagnosis of culture, ideas on how to serve women, and what we can do — daily, at home — to fulfill our desire of God. (October 13, 2019)
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September 22, 2019 • 43 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic apologist Pat Flynn talks with his wife, Christine Mooney-Flynn, about the grammar of Catholic boycotting. (September 22, 2019)
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August 14, 2019 • 66 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic evangelist Pat Flynn is joined by Fr. Gregory Pine to talk human purpose and destiny. (August 11, 2019)
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August 5, 2019 • 116 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic apologist Pat Flynn speaks with Dr. Stephen Napier on a philosophy of life. (August 4, 2019)
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Pat Flynn is joined by professional philosopher and professor at St. John’s University Dr. Robert Delfino to discuss Thomas Aquinas and his famous “proofs” for the existence of God, particularly the 3rd way argument from possibility and necessity. Do these arguments hold any validity today? If so, what exactly are they and what sort of insights do they provide?
In this episode:
What is metaphysics? And how does the knowledge philosop...
In this episode:
What is metaphysics? And how does the knowledge philosop...
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July 22, 2019 • 126 min
Is it possible — like really possible — to know not only God exists, but something about God through reason alone? Pat is joined by at least one professional philosophy who says yes: Dr. Josh Rasmussen. Not only does Dr. Rasmussen hold that we can know that God exists, but that we can establish as much through pure logic. From there, we can even learn something about what God must be like, simply by working our back from our own ex...
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July 7, 2019 • 26 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic Evangelist Pat Flynn talks about why we go to church. (July 7, 2019)
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July 4, 2019 • 87 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Pat is joined by Dr. Timothy McGrew to discuss the reliability of the gospels and whether we can trust what’s recorded in them. Also, are miracles possible? Is that a thing? It’s a fun discussion. Really! (June 30, 2019)
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Pat is joined by professional philosopher J.P. Moreland to discuss anxiety and the human soul. Professor Moreland, who specializes in philosophy of mind, opens up about his struggles with anxiety and depression, and shares strategies –physical, mental, and spiritual — that have helped him to reclaim a life of peace and joy. (June 23, 2019)
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June 15, 2019 • 91 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic apologist Pat Flynn is joined by two Catholic Scientists — Dr. Michael Behe and Dr. Stacy Trascancos — to discuss and debate the theory of intelligent design. In this conversation: What does Intelligent Design (ID) actually say about the theory of evolution? Is ID an argument from ignorance, or an inference to the best explanation? At what level is design obvious in nature? Is ID too narro...
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June 9, 2019 • 32 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic evangelist Pat Flynn talks about upcoming plans for the Sunday School program. (June 9, 2019)
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May 26, 2019 • 76 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Catholic evangelist Pat Flynn interviews Leah Moler, lover of philosophy and writer at LifeAsLeahKnows, about her conversion story from agnosticism, through evangelicalism, to Catholicism, and why she believes reason and faith are not only not incompatible, but cannot ever ultimately be at odds, since all come from the same source: God. (May 26, 2019)
You can learn more about Leah and keep up with h...
You can learn more about Leah and keep up with h...
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May 21, 2019 • 31 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Pat Flynn talks about Mere Christianity and the Three Parts of Morality. (May 19, 2019)
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Philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig recently appeared on the Ben Shapiro show to present the case for reasonable Christian belief. Pat offers commentary on that episode, dives deeper into some of the arguments, and responds to objections made to a comment he posted on a video. (May 12, 2019)
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Pat is joined on the podcast by his longtime friend Aaron to discuss and (civilly) debate the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism. Pat takes the Catholic side, Aaron comes from the perspective of a non-denominational Evangelical. The topics hit upon are quite diverse, and include:
The authority and interpretation of Scripture; most importantly: Is Scripture the only authority? Or is Scripture just an authority? How do ...
The authority and interpretation of Scripture; most importantly: Is Scripture the only authority? Or is Scripture just an authority? How do ...
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In this episode of Sunday School, Pat Flynn interviews Dr. Kevin Vost on St. Thomas and the nature of Truth and Happiness (April 28, 2019)
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April 21, 2019 • 31 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Pat Flynn continues reading through Mere Christianity and offering his commentary. In this segment, we finally run into C.S. Lewis’s famous presentation of the Lord, Liar, Lunatic dilemma with respect to Jesus. Which one, we must ask, was he?
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April 14, 2019 • 55 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Pat Flynn shares his journey to faith on the Classical Theism podcast, and offers advice on dealing with skepticism and finding ways to have productive religious conversation with people of differing views. But before that, we begin today’s Sunday School episode with a Gospel reflection. (April 14, 2019)
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April 7, 2019 • 47 min
In this episode of Sunday School, Pat Flynn asks whether God’s expectations are too high, too unrealistic. Why does Christianity seem to have so many “rules”? Are we looking at God’s commands in the wrong way? A listener wrote in with these fundamental questions, and Pat does his best to offer a fundamental answer. (April 7, 2019)
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