Collars & Calluses: Episode 49 - Sola Scriptura

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…

Bill and Rich introduce Collars and Calluses and begin a series shifting from Proverbs to ecclesiology, responding to online “ortho bro” and Roman Catholic apologetics urging Protestants to convert. Drawing on decades of pastoral experience and personal study, they argue that both Rome and the East…

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…