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The Counsel of Trent

#515 – FFAF: My “heavy metal boss” at Catholic Answers

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this free-for-all-Friday Trent sits down with Jon Sorensen, chief operating officer for Catholic Answers, to learn how he went from “heavy-metal atheist” to an executive leader of a leading apologetics apostolate.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

Hey everyone, welcome to Free For All Friday here at the Council of Trent Podcast.

0:13.5

I'm your host, Cahly Ganshan's Apologist and Speaker of Trent Horn.

0:16.8

Joining me today is my heavy metal boss, himself, John Sorenson.

0:21.6

So you're director of operations now?

0:23.8

Yeah, Chief Operating Officer's the official title.

0:28.0

Fancy, fancy title.

0:29.0

It's the coolest title I could hope for.

0:32.2

Yeah, so basically when I have a question or need to figure out what I do, John's the

0:37.9

guy that I basically go to.

0:39.4

So Chris Check is the president of Catholic Answers.

0:41.9

But I thought it would be fun today just to have you on the podcast because when I tell

0:46.2

people, oh yeah, this is the director of operations for Catholic Answers, you kind of break

0:51.3

the stereotype mold a little bit.

0:52.8

And I think that's a good thing.

0:54.8

I love it.

0:56.3

I'll be honest with you, I do get kind of weird looks from in some Catholic circles because

1:01.8

I guess I'm not your ordinary guy.

1:05.6

But you know, musical taste.

1:08.0

I'm not really into, you know, sometimes when I walk in the room, I feel like I'm the

1:11.8

only Catholic there that's not really a huge GK Chesterton fan.

1:16.8

It's not, I like modern apologetics.

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