Just How Depraved Are You? (#456)

Considering Catholicism · Apr 30, 2026 · 33m

In this candid monologue, Greg retraces his own path from campus-ministry apologetics at a liberal university into the tight, intellectually satisfying world of Calvinism—training in a Calvinist seminary, embracing TULIP, and finding real comfort in the doctrine of Total Depravity. He walks through what made that system feel so compelling at the time: its logical clarity, its honest reckoning with human sin, and its God-centered awe. But as he circled back to the medieval Catholic thinkers he’d first glimpsed years earlier, and then encountered the big, colorful, sacramental fullness of…