WOF 233: How to Disagree Well
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
An article by the Protestant pastor Timothy Keller offers “6 Principles for How to Argue When You Disagree.” Bishop Barron and Brandon walk through the article and discuss how we can have better conversations with people who hold very different views than us.
A listener asks if, as a priest, Bishop Barron ever gets bored at prayer.
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| 0:00.0 | To ask yourself the honest question, am I pursuing the truth here or am I trying to win the argument? |
| 0:08.7 | I think for a lot of us, the thing will devolve into something like an intellectual price fight. |
| 0:16.1 | There's my opponent and I'm going to win this fight. Even if that means, I've got a couple of |
| 0:24.0 | sucker punches or cheat a little bit or a low blow or you know because the intellectual |
| 0:28.7 | version of the low blow or sucker punch or something is the misrepresentation. I say here |
| 0:36.1 | wittingly of your opponent's point of view. |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. Another episode here, I'm Brandon Vot, the host and the |
| 0:52.2 | content director at Word on Fire and we're delighted to be joined again by Bishop Robert Barron, |
| 0:57.7 | Bishop Barron. Always, always good to see you. Hey Brandon, good to see you. How's life in Orlando? |
| 1:03.7 | It's good. We're still, you know, in phase one now of the rollout of the coronavirus. Florida is one |
| 1:09.1 | of the first states to kind of open the doors and everyone's, I think, a little on edge to see if |
| 1:13.4 | there's going to be a second wave of cases. So our family is still kind of hunkered down here on our |
| 1:19.0 | little homestead. Yeah, good, good. A couple of things I wanted to talk about before we get into the |
| 1:24.8 | meat of today's episode. One is, you've mentioned a few episodes back that you were working on this |
| 1:30.0 | book on the Creed and we're going to have a lot more to say about that when it comes out probably |
| 1:34.0 | in 2021 but you just finished it. So it's a big accomplishment. I know it's still on your mind. |
| 1:39.4 | How did the book go? Are you happy with how it turned out? |
| 1:43.1 | Well, I finished it. Ultragime is the French say, meaning the basic kind of draft, the first draft |
| 1:50.8 | of it is done. But this is a book that I conceived. Oh, I don't know, maybe a year ago working on it |
| 1:57.5 | and there are dribs and drabs and then suddenly this coronavirus came and it did open a window. |
| 2:03.8 | I must say to that, I had more time. And think about writing, you know, for writing, you know this |
| 2:09.2 | Brandon, you need a lot of time because you just have to focus. It's impossible. I only got |
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