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🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In this episode, we discuss a recent article in GQ magazine which described the Bible as overrated, along with a new report from Barna titled State of the Bible 2017: Top Findings. We explore whether people are reading the Bible, how much they're doing it, and how we can all read the Bible better.
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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 |
0:10.5 | at Word on Fire. And joining us in studio is the great Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop |
0:16.2 | Barron, welcome to the show. It's always good to be with the great |
0:20.0 | Brandon Vot too. Hey, the last couple episodes of the Word on Fire show podcast we've shared |
0:26.3 | your talk at Google, which was just made public. You know, you did that several months back, |
0:32.0 | but it wasn't live streamed. It wasn't publicly available. Took a while for it to kind |
0:35.4 | of get out. But now it has, and it's really taken the world by storm. It has tens of thousands |
0:40.9 | of views already. I got to imagine you're pretty happy about that. |
0:44.3 | Yeah, and I remember I gave that talk, you say a couple months ago, you're up there with |
0:48.4 | me. And I enjoyed giving that talk, I enjoyed the audience, and then I had kind of forgotten |
0:53.4 | about it, you know, because they delayed for a few months. But it's been well received, |
0:58.8 | you know, thank God. And in many ways, that kind of talk is emblematic of the work that we're |
1:04.6 | trying to do. I think it were on fire is to bring the message of the gospel out into the |
1:08.9 | wider culture. And I'm grateful to both Facebook and Google that invited me to their headquarters |
1:13.9 | up there near San Francisco. And so to me, it's a symbol of, you know, that picture they have |
1:19.8 | here of me standing in front of the Google sign. I'm kind of happy with that because that's |
1:24.2 | what we're trying to do. You know, not a few people commented on this. I think you did |
1:28.4 | it too that in many ways you speaking at the Google campus is a modern example of Paul |
1:34.0 | going to the area of igus where like on the area of igus, you have this stage where many |
1:39.6 | different people, atheists, skeptics, philosophers, innovators come to just exchange ideas. So |
1:44.7 | it's cool and encouraging to see a Catholic leader up on the area of igus of the modern |
1:49.3 | world. Yeah, and that's a text, you know, from the actually Apostles chapter 17 that means |
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