Father and Joe E453: The Money Changers and the Courtyard of the Gentiles — When “Normal” Becomes Corruption
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The episode explores the perspective of the money changers in the Temple and the corruption that can arise when worship becomes commercialized.
What if you were one of the money changers in the Temple—doing what “everyone” said was acceptable—until Jesus showed up and flipped the tables? In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks take a fresh angle on a familiar Gospel moment: not from the perspective of the disciples, but from the unnamed people caught in a system that slowly drifted from worship to marketplace. They unpack why the issue wasn’t currency exchange itself, but desecrating the Temple—turning God’s house into...
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