#4 - What Is the Church, and Why Trust It?

This episode examines what the Church claims to be, and why it has historically asked for trust. Rather than approaching the Church as an idea or moral influence, it explores it as a living institution shaped by continuity, authority, and responsibility. By tracing how Christianity preserved truth through persecution, disagreement, and internal failure, the episode argues that the Church’s credibility does not rest on perfection, but on endurance — on its refusal to reinvent itself in response to power, pressure, or preference. The episode concludes by reframing trust not as blind belief, but as a serious response to an institution that has carried meaning across centuries.