Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.

I'm Brandon Vot, the content director at Word on Fire.

Today we're picking up right where we left off in the last episode,

where we began playing a talk by Bishop Barron,

titled, To Evangelize the Culture.

The talk was given a few years ago at the University of St. Michael's in Toronto,

and highlights how the church is meant to move out into the culture

to bear the light of Christ to the world.

If you didn't listen to part one, now's a good time to go back and hear that.

You can find it at wordonfireshow.com.

Today we'll play the second half of that talk,

and then next week we'll be back with another interview episode of the Word on Fire Show.

So sit back and enjoy this great talk from Bishop Robert Barron.

With these analyses in mind,

let's turn to a consideration of some concrete ways

in which Christ can be proposed as the proper fulfillment of the culture

according to its three transcendental trajectories.

We'll look, however briefly, at Jesus' relationship to the sciences,

to politics, and to the arts.

Especially in the North American context,

the quest for truth is typically associated with the endeavor of scientists.

We've come with good reason to reverence the sciences

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