{"id":16183,"date":"2018-08-10T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2018-08-10T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T01:02:30","slug":"the-catholic-weird-and-mysterious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2018\/08\/the-catholic-weird-and-mysterious\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Weird and Mysterious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently two sources for the Catholic weird, odd, and mysterious came to fruition. No I am not talking about <em>Weird Catholic Twitter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>First off is Thomas L. McDonald\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/weirdcatholic.com\">Weird Catholic<\/a>\u201d blog with stories like <a href=\"https:\/\/weirdcatholic.com\/2018\/08\/10\/the-strange-legend-of-st-christopher-and-whether-or-not-he-had-the-head-of-a-dog\/\">The Strange Legend of St. Christopher, and Whether or Not He Had the Head of a Dog<\/a>. It is vey nice to see Tom return to blogging with his new site. This is a great little niche of the weird and the interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Just announced from the Starquest Production Network is <a href=\"https:\/\/sqpn.com\/mysterious\">Jimmy Akin\u2019s Mysterious World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Domenico Bettinelli, who is he co-host, announces it on his blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s yet another new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sqpn.com\/\">SQPN<\/a>\u00a0podcast I\u2019m contributing to that I want to share with you:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sqpn.com\/mysterious\">Jimmy Akin\u2019s Mysterious World<\/a>. As the title states, the show features\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/\">Jimmy Akin<\/a>, the Catholic apologist, author, and national radio host<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettnet.com\/jimmy-akins-mysterious-world\/#fn1\">1<\/a>, and me discussing the weird, the strange, the unusual, the unexplained from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. Whether it\u2019s paranormal activity, government conspiracies, natural oddities, miraculous events, or something else out of the norm, we\u2019ll be discussing it on the show.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re over a certain age, think of it like Leonard Nimoy\u2019s \u201cIn Search Of\u201d or \u201cUnsolved Mysteries,\u201d starring Robert Stack, but from two Catholic guys.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to other similar shows, we are neither completely skeptical nor completely credulous and we always include our Catholic worldview. And if you know Jimmy at all, you know that he excels at rational, logical explorations and explanations and brings his encyclopedic knowledge to bear on whatever subject he\u2019s discussing.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode is about ghosts and you might be surprised at our conclusions. Over the next several weeks, we\u2019ll be talking about transhumanism, Bigfoot, and Area 51, just to get started.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Plus I will give a plug to SQPN\u2019s podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/sqpn.com\/category\/podcasts\/who\/\">The Secrets of Doctor Who<\/a> which is hosted by Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha. Having finished watching all the still-extent Doctor Who episodes I just love listening to their insights and criticism of each episode. This show spans all the seasons of Doctor Who &#8211; but not strictly in sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently two sources for the Catholic weird, odd, and mysterious came to fruition. No I am not talking about Weird Catholic Twitter. First off is Thomas L. 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