Collars & Calluses: Episode 40 - Conference talk by Rich

Bill and Rich continue their discussion of the authority of Scripture versus the authority of the church, clarifying that “inerrant” means without error while “infallible” means incapable of error, which they apply uniquely to God-breathed Scripture rather than councils or creeds. They argue that c…

To end season 1 of Collars and Calluses, Bill and Rich interview Nick Freitas about his book The Man Book and what he’s seeing among young men today. Freitas describes three competing paths for men—emasculating hyper-feminism, self-centered “barbarian” strength, and biblical masculinity aimed at ho…

Bill and Rich discuss why some men move from rootless American evangelicalism toward Eastern Orthodoxy or Roman Catholicism in search of historical continuity and certainty, then frame the core dispute as an authority and epistemology question: Rome’s “Pope says,” the East’s “Church says,” and Prot…

Bill and Rich of Collars and Calluses continue a Protestant critique of Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, focusing on icons and images and their online appeal to young men as “masculine” churches. They describe how icons are prominent in Orthodox worship and treated as essential dogma, with …