Friends, welcome to Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated

to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every

continent and to facilitate and encounter with Christ and His Church. The efforts of

Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word where

it is most needed. Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Baron as he preaches

the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, in the middle of the Second World War in 1943, an Oxford

professor of English, a specialist in the poetry of the 17th century, accepted an invitation

from the BBC to do a series of short radio talks on Christianity. That professor's name

was Clive Staples Lewis, better known as CS Lewis. And these talks represented his

entree into popular apologetics, a field in which he became one of the undisputed masters

of the 20th century. In these famous radio talks, he didn't want, he said to descend into

the bitter disputes that had divided the Christian churches for centuries. He didn't want

to get into the Protestant Catholic divide, for example. Instead, he wanted to lay out the

fundamentals that any Christian would hold. He wanted in a word to discuss in his famous

phrase, mirror Christianity. Well, these radio presentations proved against all expectations

to be remarkably popular. So popular, in fact, that Lewis was urged to publish them as a

short book. That text, which was entitled Mirror Christianity, has become one of the

most respected and persuasive cases for Christianity ever written. You know, in a lot of my

dialogues on YouTube with atheist and agnostics, I often recommend they read Mirror Christianity.

Not because it's the most sophisticated, it isn't. It's not like reading Thomas Aquinas,

but it's a very helpful way to get into a rational defense of Christianity. Well, Lewis's book

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