Chapter 8, A Rome-antic Reunion Summary and Analysis

Scott and Kimberly move to Joliet and buy a house near the College of Saint Francis. Scott is working on learning the materials for the courses he will teach. He continues to encourage Catholics who have abandoned their faith. Scott continues to offer love rather than arguments to Kimberly, and shares his feelings with her. He also begins encountering tough anti-Catholic fundamentalists but delights in arguing with them. Scott describes some of his encounters. He also describes some of his arguments with Kimberly, particularly about the case for the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. Scott also begins to work with a Catholic apologetics organization, known as Catholic Answers. He then records something called "the tape" where he answers various objections to Catholicism. It later becomes quite famous and within a few years 35,000 people have listened to...