WOF 116: Bishop Barron on the Oscar Best Picture Movies
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Academy Awards are just around the corner and nine films have been nominated for Best Picture. Bishop Barron has seen seven of them, and in this episode, he shares his thoughts on each. A listener asks whether free will is essential to Christianity.
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Topics Discussed
- 0:04 - Discussing Billy Graham's death and legacy
- 5:00 - Dunkirk
- 8:40 - Darkest Hour
- 13:30 - Get Out
- 16:10 - Lady Bird
- 21:25 - The Post
- 24:10 - The Shape of Water
- 27:00 - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- 30:10 - Listener question: How essential is the concept of free will to Christianity?
Bonus Resources
- Articles
- Lady Bird and the Breakthrough of Grace by Bishop Barron
- Videos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat DeHost and today for a special |
| 0:11.0 | Oscar themed episode of the show we have with us are resident film guru, Bishop Robert |
| 0:16.7 | Baron, Bishop Baron Welcome. So that's my latest title. I'm resident film guru. |
| 0:21.6 | We're trying to come up with inventive titles for each of the intros. |
| 0:25.0 | No, that's okay. We gotta get creative. How are you doing today? |
| 0:28.1 | I'm doing well, but we both woke up to sort of disturbing news this morning. |
| 0:32.4 | I guess it was a long time coming, but finally today we got the announcement that the great |
| 0:36.9 | Billy Graham has passed away. Billy Graham was known as America's pastor. |
| 0:42.6 | He was born in 1918, died in 2018. He was 99 years old, probably best known for his |
| 0:50.0 | Billy Graham crusades around the world where he preached to over 200 million people, ministered |
| 0:56.2 | to 12 presidents. Maybe later on we'll do a longer discussion about Billy Graham, but |
| 1:02.3 | Bishop, what are some of your immediate thoughts about this death of this great man? |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, I mean, he was certainly one of the greatest, if not the greatest evangelist of the |
| 1:12.9 | last 100 years. So one of the most significant Christians on the planet. Maybe some of the |
| 1:18.0 | younger folks don't remember him because he's been kind of out of the public eye for the |
| 1:22.2 | past maybe 20 years, but gosh, for most of the 20th century. I mean, he was a major, major |
| 1:28.1 | player, maybe the most recognizable Christian in the world. I think a man that was very admired |
| 1:34.0 | for his integrity of life. When so many preachers of the gospel got in the trouble or were |
| 1:41.4 | compromised in some ways, Billy Graham had this very consistent dedication to the gospel |
| 1:49.6 | and moral integrity, et cetera. And I think people really admired him for that. And then |
| 1:53.5 | I think for the quality and clarity and simplicity and directness and obvious sincerity of his |
| 1:59.1 | preaching. So I'm going to YouTube, you can find all sorts of examples of his preaching |
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