Message From the Margins Podcast

Richard Vitale
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Message From the Margins is a weekly podcast and video series hosted by Father Rich Vitale, an Old Catholic priest, writer, pastor, and public theologian. Each episode explores the places where Scripture, theology, psychology, culture, history, and lived experience meet. Some episodes examine the questions Christians have argued about for centuries. Others take on the questions people are quietly carrying right now. The goal is neither easy answers nor religious outrage. It is an intelligent, honest conversation with a pastor who believes faith should be able to survive difficult questions. If you are spiritually serious, religiously curious, wounded by the Church, trying to make sense of Christianity, or simply looking for a more thoughtful way to talk about faith and public life, you are welcome here.

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  1. 4d ago ·  Video

    HOW DID THE BIBLE BECOME THE BIBLE?

    Most of us grew up with the Bible as a finished object: one book, bound between two covers, divided neatly into chapters and verses. But the earliest Christians never held anything like that. The Bible began as stories told aloud, prayers, laws, songs, prophetic writings, letters carried between communities, gospels copied by hand, scrolls, codices, arguments, and collections that developed across centuries. So how did all of that become the Bible? In the first episode of Message From the Margins, Father Rich Vitale traces the extraordinary human history behind the Christian Scriptures, from oral tradition and ancient scribes to Marcion, Irenaeus, Eusebius, Constantine, Nicaea, Athanasius, and the different biblical canons Christians still use today. Along the way, we ask a deeper question: If the Bible came to us through so many human hands, what does that mean for the way we understand inspiration, tradition, and the work of the Holy Spirit? The episode concludes with Queries From the Margins, where Father Rich responds to listener questions about faith, sexuality, anger, returning to church, and confession. Watch, listen, subscribe, and support Message From the Margins at FatherRichV.Substack.com.

    HOW DID THE BIBLE BECOME THE BIBLE?
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Message From the Margins is a weekly podcast and video series hosted by Father Rich Vitale, an Old Catholic priest, writer, pastor, and public theologian. Each episode explores the places where Scripture, theology, psychology, culture, history, and lived experience meet. Some episodes examine the questions Christians have argued about for centuries. Others take on the questions people are quietly carrying right now. The goal is neither easy answers nor religious outrage. It is an intelligent, honest conversation with a pastor who believes faith should be able to survive difficult questions. If you are spiritually serious, religiously curious, wounded by the Church, trying to make sense of Christianity, or simply looking for a more thoughtful way to talk about faith and public life, you are welcome here.

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