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Podcast: Father and Joe
Episode: Father and Joe E453: The Money Changers and the Courtyard of the Gentiles — When “Normal” Becomes Corruption
Description: 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 a commercial space. Then Father adds a deeper layer: the money changers were...