Welcome to Within Reason. My name is Alex O'Connor and I'm excited to share with you this new project that I've been working on for quite some time now. Within Reason is a new weekly podcast that's going to go on this channel dedicated to having long-form

conversations with interesting guests. Now you might say Alex you already have a

podcast the Cosmic Skeptic podcast and you'd be right but that podcast has been

incredibly sporadic.

There's only been 21 episodes ever produced over some four years or so of doing it.

And it's just been as and when I could find a guest and be bothered to make a long-form episode.

Within reason is essentially a rebranding of that Cosmic Skeptic podcast,

which means that if you're already subscribed to the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and the like,

then you'll already be subscribed to within reason.

You'll notice that the podcast art and the name will simply change.

If you're not, however, then please do go over to your podcast platform of choice and subscribe

for the audio versions of these

podcasts. So because this is a rebrand technically this is episode 22 of the

podcast but it's the first one under this new brand and so I'm excited to share it

with you and I look forward to producing weekly episodes that hopefully

will bring you some interest and enjoyment.

My guest today is Bishop Robert Baron. Bishop Baron is the founder of the Catholic

ministerial organization Word on Fire and one of the

and the most recognizable faces in the discussions around theism and specifically

Catholicism.

I debated Bishop Baron a number of years ago on the existence of God, something that was positively received and we thought it would be a good idea to sit down again, this time to talk about meaning.

And so in this episode you can expect to hear us talk about whether we find ourselves in a crisis of meaning and if so why that might be the case

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