Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today we are talking about how the pen is mightier than the meme.

You know, when I was growing up and I was learning apologetics, especially before the age

of high-speed internet, what I remembered was downloading articles, trying to find books

in the library and really sifting through arguments that way.

But you fast forward 20 years.

It seems like a lot of people today are learning arguments for and against the faith, sometimes

just with short videos or even worse sarcastic memes that don't really contribute to good

public debate about really important issues.

So that's why I've brought two wonderful guests with me, Todd Agliolaro, who is the director

of publishing here at Catholic Answers, and Tim Ryland, who is the editor of our Catholic

Answers magazine.

And we're going to talk today about the importance of writing and how even though we're in more

of a digital age, we've got videos, Snapchat, TikTok, which I don't entirely understand yet,

you've got memes and macros, why writing books and articles are still valuable and will

always have a perennial value to them and how we, you and me, can become better writers

and learn how to use the pen to better explain and defend our faith.

And now without further ado, gentlemen, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

Thanks, Trent.

Glad to be here.

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