WOF 134: Questions from the Word on Fire Community

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Bishop Barron answers questions from the Word on Fire Community.

Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction
1:45 - Why have my emotions cooled off after my conversion?
6:30 - What should we tell people who think religion is superstition?
10:36 - How should we respond to people who claim to be "spiritual but not religious"?
14:30 - Does religion have a smart people problem?
19:30 - Why does Dante's explanation of Heaven have varying levels?
23:40 - Are all religions at the core fundamentally the same?
27:25 - What are some ideas for evangelizing a college campus?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm your host, Jared Zimmer, the director of Outreach
0:09.4	and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to Bishop Robert Parent.
0:14.2	Bishop, it's always good to be with you.
0:15.8	Hey Jared, great to be with you. How you doing?
0:18.3	I'm doing well. It's actually a rainy day in Texas, believe it or not, during the summer.
0:22.5	It's kind of a strange thing.
0:24.2	I must say I missed the rain out here in California. I love California, but it's just
0:28.4	never rains. It rains for a couple months on and off, you know, a few days. And I was
0:34.9	in Atlanta just recently and it was a big old storm came through and those big summer
0:39.7	clouds, you know, and I must say I kind of missed that. I missed storms.
0:43.7	Yes, I love a good rainy day as well. So, well, today we're going to give Bishop Parent
0:49.4	an opportunity to answer a few of the questions that have been posed at the Word on Fire
0:54.2	Community. Now, the Word on Fire community is a group we launched on Facebook back in
0:59.0	April of this year. The group actually now has over 11,000 members there on Facebook.
1:05.0	So the best thing about using and being part of the group is that we get to discuss the
1:09.2	eight principles of the Word on Fire movement. We get to discuss culture. And many people
1:14.4	discuss how their evangelical efforts are going. And perhaps suggest or ask the group ways
1:21.0	to increase those evangelical efforts. The discussions have been incredibly fruitful. So, I
1:28.0	pulled a few of the questions from the group in order to give Bishop Parent a chance to
1:32.2	respond.
1:33.2	That's great.
1:34.2	Yeah. So just to jump right in, you know, again, these can cover from culture to evangelical
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