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 an 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 Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. 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 except 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 diagnostics I often recommend they read

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