FACTS

By Stephen Boyce and Tyler West

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FACTS is a podcast that was started by Dr. Stephen Boyce from Greenville, South Carolina. The primary focus of this program is to cover historical content about the early church Fathers, the Apocryphal accounts, the canon, textual criticism, and the scripture itself. Most episodes are co-hosted by Tyler West, among other special guests who are invited on the program.

Episode Date
The Sacraments: Ordination and Marriage
May 11, 2024
Does the Gospel of Thomas Now Have Validity?
May 08, 2024
The Disastrous Ending to the United Methodist Church
May 07, 2024
The Sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist
May 04, 2024
The Sacraments: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?
Apr 27, 2024
Melchizedek and the Last Supper
Apr 20, 2024
How Did the Early Church View Abortion?
Apr 13, 2024
Is Local Church Autonomy Biblical and Historical?
Apr 06, 2024
How Could Peter Report the Crucifixion If He Was Not There?
Mar 30, 2024
The Athanasian Creed
Mar 23, 2024
Jesus is the Donkey King: Did Matthew Get it Right?
Mar 16, 2024
The Nicene Creed
Mar 10, 2024
The Apostles' Creed
Mar 05, 2024
Is Mary the Mother of God? An Examination of the Council of Ephesus
Feb 27, 2024
What Makes a Person a Heretic?
Feb 24, 2024
Creeds and Contending for the Faith
Feb 18, 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Church of England
Feb 03, 2024
A Call for Clergy to Bless Christian Marriages
Jan 23, 2024
An Unexpected Journey: Our Story to Anglicanism
Jan 22, 2024
New Developments from the Vatican: Hell, Same-Sex Blessings, and a Sexually Explicit Book
Jan 20, 2024
Priestesses and Deaconesses
Jan 14, 2024
The Letters of Ignatius: To the Church at Smyrna and to Bishop Polycarp
Jan 10, 2024
The Evolution of the Gospel of Matthew
Jan 06, 2024
A Homily for the New Year
Jan 01, 2024
Pope Francis and the Blessing of Same-Sex Couples
Dec 27, 2023
A Church Father Christmas Medley
Dec 25, 2023
Recovering the Ancient Office of Deacon
Dec 19, 2023
The Letters of Ignatius: To the Romans and the Philadelphians
Dec 15, 2023
The Letters of Ignatius: To the Ephesians, Magnesians, and Trallians
Dec 10, 2023
The Apostle Judas Thaddeus
Dec 03, 2023
The Baptist Trail of Blood Myth: The Rise of the Baptist Church
Nov 22, 2023
The Life, Ministry, and Death of the Apostle John
Nov 18, 2023
The Baptist Trail of Blood Myth: Paulicians, Albigensians, and Waldensians
Nov 12, 2023
The Baptist Trail of Blood Myth: Montanism, Novatianism, and Donatism
Nov 05, 2023
Sabbath or Sunday: What Day Did the Early Church Gather?
Oct 15, 2023
Judas Iscariot the Traitor
Oct 07, 2023
The Churches Did Not Accept Anonymous Gospels
Oct 03, 2023
The Apostle Bartholomew/Nathaniel
Sep 24, 2023
What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Apostolic Succession
Sep 16, 2023
The Legacy of Saint Peter
Sep 10, 2023
Simon the Zealot
Sep 02, 2023
Parables and the Reliability of the Synoptic Gospels
Aug 27, 2023
Sola Scriptura is Dead
Aug 19, 2023
James the Great: The First of the Apostolic Martyrs
Aug 13, 2023
How the Devil Won Western Evangelical Churches
Aug 11, 2023
The Apostle Matthew: Tax Collector, Gospel Writer, and Church Planter
Aug 07, 2023
Was Matthias Actually One of the Twelve?
Jul 29, 2023
The Patron Saint of India: The Apostle Thomas
Jul 22, 2023
The Life, Ministry, and Death of the Apostle Andrew
Jul 16, 2023
Did the Council of Nicaea Choose our Four Gospels?
Jul 12, 2023
Why Were There Twelve Apostles?
Jul 10, 2023
The Early Church Battled the Prosperity Gospel Long Before Us
Jul 05, 2023
What Did the Churches of Paul Look Like 100 Years After Him?
Jul 02, 2023
A Villain or a Victim?: An Overview of the Gospel of Judas
Jun 24, 2023
The Early Church Fathers on Women Clergy
Jun 18, 2023
The Apostle John's Approach to Dealing with a Student Who Walked Away From the Church
Jun 12, 2023
Is Colossians a Pauline Forgery?
Jun 04, 2023
Would Christ Ever Shut Down One of His Churches?
May 29, 2023
The Life and Letter of Polycarp of Smyrna
May 24, 2023
Andy Stanley is Wrong About the Origins of the Bible
May 21, 2023
Did Standards of Dress, Food Choices, and Entertainment Set Early Christianity Apart From Pagan Culture?
May 19, 2023
Did the Council of Nicaea Create the Doctrine of the Trinity?
May 14, 2023
3 Reasons Apologetics is Failing
May 07, 2023
The Didache: A First Century Look at the Apostolic Churches
May 03, 2023
Did Jesus Write an Epistle to King Abgar of Edessa?
Apr 23, 2023
Is Ephesians a Pauline Forgery?
Apr 22, 2023
2 Corinthians: Seeing the Heart of Paul through Paper and Ink
Apr 15, 2023
Clement of Rome: A Friend of Peter and Paul
Apr 10, 2023
Is First Corinthians Actually Second Corinthians?
Apr 03, 2023
The Early Bishops Saved the Apostolic Texts from Corruption
Mar 30, 2023
Irenaeus and the Guardians of the Apostolic Texts and Traditions
Mar 25, 2023
Ignatius of Antioch: A Friend of the Apostles
Mar 18, 2023
How Should Christians React to Divine Hiddenness/Silence?
Mar 16, 2023
Gaps of Divine Silence: A Response to Divine Hiddenness
Mar 11, 2023
Did the Gospel Writers Steal the Jesus Story from the Romulus Myth?
Feb 26, 2023
"Women Need Theology Too!" With Special Guest Lauran Robinson
Feb 25, 2023
3 John: The Elder to the Beloved Gaius
Feb 12, 2023
2 John: The Elder to the Elect Kyria
Feb 06, 2023
The Nameless Epistle of First John
Jan 31, 2023
The Epistle to Diognetus: An Early Defense of Christianity
Jan 21, 2023
1 Peter, A Fisherman's Epistle?
Dec 17, 2022
The Debatable Status of 2 Peter
Dec 03, 2022
"Out with the New and in with the Old" Investigating the Major Issues of the Modern Church
Nov 19, 2022
Who Wrote the Book of Hebrews?
Oct 24, 2022
How Many Isaiahs Wrote the Book of Isaiah?
Oct 18, 2022
The Book of Revelation: Spurious or Scripture?
Sep 10, 2022
The Disputed Book of James
Aug 31, 2022
Jude's Debatable Status in the Early Church
Jul 10, 2022
Did Paul or Tertius Write Romans?
Jun 21, 2022
Exploring Pauline Authorship in the Pastoral Epistles
Jun 13, 2022
Acts, Luke's Eyewitness Account of the Apostles
May 31, 2022
John, Peter's Friendly Competition
May 23, 2022
The Making of John's Gospel
May 14, 2022
Luke, the Physician that Made History
Apr 30, 2022
Luke, Paul's Personal Historian
Apr 22, 2022
Exploring the Details of a Tax Collector's Eyewitness Account
Apr 02, 2022
Exploring the Potential of Two Matthew Accounts
Mar 21, 2022
Mark, the Scribe of Peter's Gospel
Mar 12, 2022
Papias and the Eyewitnesses
Mar 08, 2022
Should 1 Enoch Be Considered Canonical?
Jan 17, 2022
Can a Man Get His Theology from a Woman?
Jan 11, 2022
Did the Writer of Hebrews Utilize the Apocrypha?
Nov 30, 2021
A Story of Deconstruction
Nov 29, 2021
Is the Gospel of Thomas Orthodox?
Sep 14, 2021
Is Socrates a Myth?
Aug 31, 2021
Did the Cross of Jesus Speak?: A Study of the Gospel of Peter
Aug 24, 2021