The Reformanda Initiative

We are Protestant and members of a small Presbyterian denomination. One of our children has entered the Dominican novitiate. We heard about this podcast on Reformed Forum and very grateful for your work. On a personal level it is helping navigate a significant event.

The content of the podcast is interesting and unique in the western world of evangelical church. The hosts are extremely knowledgeable and are living and working in areas that are at the very intersection of Roman Catholic and Evangelical theology. Episodes are long and in-depth. I’ve deducted a single star because oftentimes the audio quality of the hosts themselves on the show (not just guests) is atrocious.

While listening to the episodes about the Holy Mother I noticed our hosts accused Roman church and the church fathers of circular reasoning, yet they produced little evidence of their own. It can simply be reduced to “We’re right just because, and Roman Catholicism is wrong because we said so.” One question I have is this, what are the bounds of scripture? That’s a very arbitrary standard since their particular brand of Protestantism. Their view of Mary is not representative of Protestantism. It represents a very recent enlightenment influenced view of Mary. In short, this is pretend scholarly work and class anti-Catholicism.

I love this podcast! It’s very informative and encouraging to me as a former Roman Catholic. You don’t mince words but you’re sensitive at the same time knowing that spreading the Gospel in a dark place is priority. My only critique is that you need more episodes LOL! I check it almost every day awaiting the next one.I recently purchased “Same Words, Different Worlds” and look forward to reading it!