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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 160: A Bishop's Guide to Social Media

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

God, Vogt, Catholicism, Catholic, Faith, Christianity, Barron, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Church

4.95.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How should Christians use social media? How can we escape its dangers (venomous rhetoric, echo chambers, etc.) and instead use these tools well? Bishop Barron offers his advice and shares how he personally uses these tools. A listener asks whether Bishop Barron is now part of the Intellectual Dark Web after speaking with Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host and joining me is the Bishop of Catholic Social Media.

0:14.1

We're going to talk about that title here in just a second. Bishop Aaron, welcome.

0:16.9

Hey, Brandon. Always good to be with you.

0:19.2

Hey, before we get to the topic of today's show, which is a Bishop's guide to social media,

0:24.5

I want to talk about two super exciting interviews that you just did.

0:28.7

Now, this podcast episode is going to be airing a little later in December.

0:32.0

So by then, these interviews will have already aired.

0:34.4

But I'm talking, of course, about your interview with Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin.

0:40.2

Yeah.

0:41.0

Talk a little bit about those two experiences.

0:42.8

Yeah, they both were good. They're based here in the LA area.

0:46.5

And I've been on Dave Rubin's show before, a year and a half ago.

0:50.6

And he's got a very strong presence in social media.

0:53.8

It's an interview program that goes out through YouTube and Facebook and various forms.

0:58.5

And it has all kinds of interesting people on.

1:01.1

It's been a very lively show.

1:02.9

And of course, Ben Shapiro, I'd never met before the interview.

1:06.6

Same thing. He has a strong social media presence.

1:10.4

And he does a very high level interview program for Sundays that's often with kind of,

1:16.0

you know, cultural figures, but leaning toward religious figures.

1:19.3

So I was delighted to be asked to be on both those programs.

1:23.6

Shapiro was especially kind of high level.

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