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🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In last week's episode, we discussed the Jordan Peterson phenomenon, wondering how the Canadian clinical psychologist exploded so quickly in popularity. In this week's episode, we continue the discussion as Bishop Barron reflects on Peterson's religious views and Biblical interpretation. A listener wonders why we spend so much money on churches instead of giving it to the poor.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot the host and the content director |
0:09.4 | at Word on Fire. And joining us here as he does almost every single week is Bishop Robert |
0:15.5 | Baron. Bishop Baron, it is always delightful to talk with you. Hey Brandon, how you doing? |
0:20.3 | How's Little Gilbert doing? Little Gilbert's doing well. Gilbert's our six child for listeners. |
0:26.4 | He was just born a few weeks ago and he's named for Gilbert Keith Chesterton and he is Lewis. |
0:31.6 | That's right. That's right. And as you've noted, he looks an awful lot like Gilbert Chesterden |
0:36.6 | at this point with all the roles around his neck and arms and all over the place. Hey, listen, |
0:42.4 | before we get into this episode, which is the second part of our conversation about Jordan |
0:46.7 | Peterson, this popular intellectual figure. I want to give people an update on your schedule. |
0:52.8 | You got a really busy couple of weeks here coming up. Tell us about some of the things |
0:56.7 | you're doing. Yeah, March is going to be a really busy month. I'll be at the University |
1:00.0 | of Notre Dame in the beginning of March for this talk on the young people and reaching |
1:05.9 | the nuns and kind of an in preparation for the the Senate next October. And then I'm going |
1:11.7 | to go to the USCCB meeting. So now I'm I'm chair of the Bishop's Committee on Evangelization |
1:18.4 | and Catacesis. So I'm going to preside at that meeting. But I'm also on the Religious Liberty |
1:23.2 | Committee and as as a committee chair, I'm on what they call the administrative committee |
1:28.2 | as well. So I mean, all kinds of work there. I come right back from that, go directly to |
1:33.0 | the LA Religious Ed Congress in Anaheim where I'm giving a talk. And then I think it's the |
1:38.4 | very next day, Brandon, you're going with me, right? We're going to go up to San Francisco. |
1:42.5 | And I've got three things up there. One is a talk at Google headquarters. I'm looking |
1:46.6 | forward to a lot. And then a talk at St. Mary's College in Maraga on Catholic and |
1:51.1 | intellectual tradition. And then finally, I'm giving the chrysum day for the Priests of San |
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