WOF 241: When a Christian Rock Singer Stops Believing in God

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Last month, Jon Steingard, frontman of the Christian rock group Hawk Nelson, revealed that “he no longer believes in God” after spending his life as a devout Christian. His prominent de-conversion was profiled by The TODAY Show, People Magazine, NPR, and numerous other outlets. In today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt explore the reasons Jon Steingard gave to explain why he lost his faith.

A listener asks how to explain to a “none” the role of the Church’s magisterium.

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0:00.0	you're not going to solve this problem on purely scriptural grounds.
0:05.0	It'll just keep, as he says, quite rightly, it'll just keep generating problems.
0:10.1	So that's my general answer is,
0:12.7	kid, what you need is theology.
0:15.8	Read the smartest people in the Christian tradition, all of whom were grounded in the Bible,
0:21.1	all of whom trust me, saw every single issue that you're bringing up,
0:25.3	and then thought their way through to a resolution.
0:29.4	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:39.8	I'm Brandon Vatth, the host and the content director at Word on Fire.
0:43.6	Joining us as he does for each one of our discussion episodes is Bishop Robert Barron.
0:48.2	Bishop Barron, good to see you.
0:49.5	Hey, Brandon.
0:50.0	Always good to see you.
0:51.7	Now, today we're going to be talking about a famous Christian rocker who has announced
0:56.2	that he stopped believing in God.
0:57.9	But before we get there, I want to talk about another famous musician who just released
1:02.5	a brand new album, and that's your great hero, Bob Dylan.
1:06.6	Have you heard it?
1:07.6	What do you think about it?
1:08.6	Tell us.
1:09.6	Yeah, I'm listening to it now.
1:11.7	So I kind of long for the days.
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