WOF 099: How to Reach the “Nones”

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, Bishop Barron is giving the annual “Erasmus Lecture” for First Things, where he'll speak on “Evangelizing the ‘Nones’.” That's the them of this episode, which explores why young people are becoming disconnected to religion, and what we can do to draw them back. A listener asks what makes great music truly great.

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Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, Bishop Speaks at the Cornerstone Conference and prepares for the Erasmus Lecture
06:00 - Brief synopsis of iGen, a book that discusses America's newest and least religious generation
08:30 - How does our culture's celebration of individual choice create "nones", and how do we approach this issue as evangelists?
12:20 - How has scientism led to the creation of the "nones", and how do we approach this issue as evangelists?
16:15 - How has the "LGBTQ movement" contributed to the rise of the "nones", and is Christianity anti-gay?
23:00 - What are the 5 pathways to reach the "nones"?
26:50 - How do we approach a person who has zero interest in religion?
29:00 - Listener Question: What makes great music great?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vott, the host and the content director
0:09.0	here at Word on Fire. And I'm joined with our illustrious guest, the centerpiece of Word
0:15.0	on Fire, the founder of Word on Fire, Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron. Good to be with
0:19.2	you. Brandon, how's it going? It's going well. Now listen, I want to talk about a couple
0:24.3	of events. One, you just attended. One, you're about to attend. And they're on opposite
0:28.6	sides of the country. So the one you just attended was in to Homo Washington. It was
0:33.6	the cornerstone Catholic conference. Tell us how that went. It was good. It was a gathering
0:38.7	of about 1,500 or 1,500 people maybe from all over the state of Washington. It was a
0:44.2	conference sponsored by the bishops of Washington. All great guys. I was invited by Archbishop
0:49.6	Sarton, who I've known for a long time. And I think one of the really great churchmen
0:53.4	in our country today. And the express purpose of this conference was to think together the
1:00.0	more social justice side of the church's commitment and the pro-life side. Because as you know,
1:06.8	maybe since the time of the council, those two have kind of fallen apart from each other
1:12.2	unhappily, one identified more with the left, one with the right. And it's produced certain
1:16.6	tensions in the life of the church. So the idea of this conference was to bring everyone
1:21.2	together and try to make a case. I talked about Reynolds Hillenbrand, one of my great heroes,
1:28.5	who I think embodied maybe as well as anybody in the 20th century, the coming together of these
1:33.3	two things. Because Hillenbrand, as you know, was a famous advocate of the church's social
1:39.6	justice mission. However, is less well known. He was also head of the CFM or the Christian
1:46.8	family movement, which had to do with issues of marriage and sexuality and children and family.
1:53.2	Furthermore, after Vatican II, and after the birth control commission, you know, had in its
2:01.6	majority report, recommended a change in the teaching on birth control, pulled Paul VI,
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