Jimmy Akin Podcast

Can a story work when the audience knows none of it is real? Hoshi Sato's first transport goes wrong in Enterprise Season 2, Episode 10, and Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler ask what "Vanishing Point" was for.

Demons are fallen angels, right? The Gospels never say so. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace the Greek word daimon from Homer's gods and Hesiod's ghosts to the Church Fathers, and find who first called a demon a fallen angel.

Neelix comes back from the dead and remembers no afterlife. Was his faith wrong, or did he just forget? Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin take on Voyager Season 4, Episode 12, "Mortal Coil."

Could a confession made through a remote-controlled robot body be valid? Jimmy Akin takes listener questions with Cy Kellett, from the Lady in Blue and chili to time in purgatory, vampire cops and the dirt Adam was made from.

Can a stolen symbiont make a mediocre man great? In Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 4, Verad takes Dax from Jadzia. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler weigh what joining really gives a Trill.

Could a pagan god meet Jesus, repent, and go to heaven? Jimmy Akin answers listener Weird Questions with Cy Kellett, from angels outrunning light to an alternate timeline's pope, Atlantis, the mark of Cain, and bison in tornadoes.

The episode that made Worf, and a security team that badly needs retraining. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin weigh Klingon honor, a death howl, and an extradition with no questions asked in TNG Season 1, Episode 20.

Is every prayer a kind of telepathy? On Halloween, Jimmy Akin takes listener questions with Cy Kellett, from ghosts who never ask for Masses to Star Wars' religious roots, time travel, and whether Daleks have souls.

A charged particle cloud infects the Enterprise computer and it starts pranking the crew. In TAS S2E3, Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler weigh forced 1970s gags against Star Trek's very first holodeck.

Could a priest who traveled back in time say Mass before the Last Supper? Jimmy Akin takes listener questions on Catholic Answers Live with Cy Kellett, from Mary's DNA to Malachi Martin and the Michigan Melon Heads.