Father and Joe E460: Faith Isn’t an Aquarium — Stop “Using” People and Start Witnessing With Love

Father and Joe E460: Faith Isn’t an Aquarium — Stop “Using” People and Start Witnessing With Love

May 5, 2026 · 19 min

About this episode

Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks discuss the challenges of evangelization and honest relationships in the context of faith and love.

It’s easy to treat faith like an aquarium: you can see it “over there,” but it doesn’t touch real life on your side of the glass. Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks push back hard on that. In this episode, they connect Easter-season love to a daily-life obstacle that quietly blocks evangelization and honest relationships: the fear of **manipulating people** or being manipulated. Joe explains why uncomfortable conversations (including talking about Jesus) often trigger something old in us—ea...

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