The Nathan Jacobs Podcast

Is Universal Salvation Heresy? | What the Church Fathers Actually Taught

Is it possible that God might succeed in saving everyone? Many assume that the Fifth Ecumenical Council settled the question when it condemned apokatastasis. Yet Fathers

What the Christian East & West Share | The East West Series Ep 2

What did the Christian East and the Christian West share in common before the divide? This episode is a special free preview of Episode 2 of our new 33-episode docuserie

Can the Saints Hear Our Prayers? | What Early Christians Believed

How can departed saints hear our prayers, and how could they possibly manage thousands of requests at once? While many assume prayer to the saints is an unbiblical or la

Are Ghosts Real? | What the Eastern Church Fathers Teach

Are ghosts real, or are apparitions simply demonic deceptions? While Western Christianity and Catholicism traditionally view postmortem souls as immediately departing to

Are the Oriental Orthodox Monophysite? | An Orthodox Assessment

Are the Oriental Orthodox and non-Chalcedonian churches actually Monophysite heretics? While many assume the Oriental Orthodox heresy is a settled matter of church histo

The Hidden Truth About Miracles | What the Church Fathers Taught

Description Do miracles actually violate the laws of physics or suspend the order of nature? In modern philosophy—from David Hume and Baruch Spinoza to Gottfried Leibniz—

Can You Perceive God? | How We Encounter the Divine Daily

Is God imperceptible, accessible only through a blind leap of faith or complex logical inferences?In this episode, Dr. Nathan Jacobs challenges the modern presumption tha

Why Is Mary Called "Mother of God"? | An Orthodox Explanation

Why does the Eastern Orthodox Church give the Virgin Mary titles like Theotokos, Ever-Virgin, and Panagia?While these titles can often sound surprising—or even troubling—

Why Realism Contradicts Evolution | Creationism & The Eastern Church Fathers (Part 2) | ft. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone

Are the theories of modern science and Christian theology fundamentally incompatible, or are both sides missing the bigger picture? In part two of his conversation with D

How Could the Angels Fall? | Why Satan Turned Against God

If the angels existed in the presence of God and beheld His divine glory, how could Satan—or any angel—possibly choose to turn away from Him?We explore what the Eastern C

Does Science Contradict Genesis? | ft. Drs. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone (Part 1)

Must a Christian reject modern science to hold a faithful view of Genesis? In Part 1 of this two-part collaborative episode, Dr. Chris Firestone (The Firestone Files) sit

Why Would God Create Someone He Knows Will Be Damned?

If God knows the future, why would He create someone who will ultimately reject Him? This is one of the deepest questions in Christian theology, and one that was asked b

Can the Devil Be Saved? | What the Church Fathers Actually Taught

Can the devil be saved? While many Christians assume the answer is obvious, the Eastern Church Fathers offer a far more nuanced discussion than most people realize. In​ 

The REAL Reason Movies Go Wrong

Thomas Thorogood interviews Dr Nathan Jacobs about his work on the Amazon series 'House of David', the principles of writing a good story, the role of storytelling in the

Why I Reject Evolution | An Orthodox Christian Perspective

In my previous episode, I explored whether the Eastern Church Fathers actually reject the theory of evolution. In this follow-up, I answer a different question entirely: 

Can You Trust Your Mind | Thomas Thorogood Clip

Can we trust our minds to know reality? This clip is taken from Nathan Jacobs' most recent interview with Thomas Thorogood and features a reaction to a discussion betwee

Why I Became Orthodox (Part 2) | Discovering the Church Fathers

Part 2 of Nathan Jacobs’ journey into Eastern Orthodoxy. After years of studying philosophy and theology, Nathan began reading the Eastern Church Fathers for the first t

He Was Making a Horror Film... Until THIS Happened

In this special collaboration episode, Thomas Thorogood sits down with Nathan Jacobs for an in-depth conversation. They dive into Nathan's experience making a horror film

From Heretic to Orthodox: Everything I Thought About Christianity Was Wrong

Why would a philosopher become Orthodox? In this deeply personal episode, Nathan Jacobs shares the story of his journey from a Lutheran upbringing, through philosophy, s

Do the Church Fathers Reject Evolution?

Is the theory of evolution truly incompatible with Christianity? Many assume the Church Fathers rejected evolution outright — but is that what they actually taught? In t