This episode is a re-air.

Jeff Cavins never planned any of it. A confirmation Bible at thirteen, a stack of colored markers and a sheet of butcher paper at twenty-six, and a habit of walking through whatever door opened. That is how the Great Adventure Bible Timeline was born and how a former Protestant pastor became one of the most recognized voices in Catholic media. In this conversation, Jeff traces his yes across five decades, from Mother Angelica's studio to the Holy Land to the balcony of St. Peter's, and lands on the single priority that orders everything else.

What We Talk About:

• How a Bible received at confirmation set the course of a life that had comedy and broadcasting in view
• The 48-hour stretch in which Jeff drafted the entire Bible Timeline chart—and the fifteen years it sat before taking off
• What Emily's archaeology and 69 Holy Land pilgrimages taught the Cavins family about walking where Jesus walked
• The morning The Bible in a Year hit number one, and why Jeff and Fr. Mike Schmitz say they would have ruined it had they aimed for that
• Why Jeff refuses to describe popes as liberal or conservative, and what he heard echoing when Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the loggia

Resources Mentioned:

• When the White Smoke Clears: A Guide to Pope Leo XIV's Early Days
• Jeff Cavins
• The Jeff Cavins Show
• The Bible Timeline: The Story of Salvation
• Paloma&Fig

Chapters:

• 00:00: Welcome and opening prayer for Pope Leo XIV
• 01:40: Comedy, radio, and a confirmation Bible at thirteen
• 03:31: Walking through open doors—Steubenville, Mother Angelica, EWTN
• 09:04: Emily, archaeology, and 69 pilgrimages to the Holy Land
• 12:23: Butcher paper, markers, and 48 hours that made the Bible Timeline
• 18:42: Coming home to the Catholic Church and filling in the silent years
• 20:59: Scott Hahn, Matt Pinto, and the birth of Ascension's Great Adventure
• 24:50: The phone call that said The Bible in a Year was number one
• 28:19: Advice to young Catholics—incubation, passion, and a sixth-grade verdict
• 35:28: Catholic media, ideological gladiators, and doing what Jesus said
• 45:00: Pope Leo XIV in Rome and the echoes of John Paul II
• 1:00:34: One priority, not twelve—and the story of Jeff's last ride

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