WOF 265: Bishop Barron’s Top 5 YouTube Videos of the Decade

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As 2020 winds to a close, Bishop Barron reflects back on his five most popular YouTube videos of the decade. He and Brandon Vogt discuss why these videos, in particular, resonated with so many people.

A listener asks, if Jesus already did what he came to do, and Satan realized he was beat, why wasn't that the end of the story? What are we still doing here?

Links

Bishop Barron on The Devil (July 2012)
Bishop Barron on Gay Marriage & the Breakdown of Moral Argument (April 2013)
Bishop Barron on The Holy Spirit (May 2012)
Bishop Barron on Whether Hell is Crowded or Empty (March 2011)
- "Dare We Hope FAQ" - https://wordonfire.org/hope
Bishop Barron on the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon (March 2018)

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0:00.0	I think that it was a good instinct to perform this experiment.
0:07.0	You know, we didn't know.
0:09.0	And I remember in the early days, I was like, well, maybe we'll do a couple of these and
0:12.2	they're not going to be very popular and then we'll move on to something else.
0:15.7	So I think certainly the fact that, as you say, 67 million views later, they've appealed
0:22.1	to people.
0:23.1	They've had the effect we wanted them to have.
0:26.2	They proved to be an efficacious way to announce the faith to those maybe outside the churches.
0:34.8	We didn't use the word none in those days, but the nuns, the disaffiliated, were our target
0:40.7	audience.
0:41.9	So I think I learned that to my satisfaction that these really are a good way to reach out
0:48.4	to the culture.
0:57.4	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.
0:59.6	I'm Brandon Vott, the Senior Content Director here at Word on Fire.
1:03.6	Got a great episode with you.
1:05.4	For you, we're going to be discussing with Bishop Baron, his YouTube ministry, which
1:09.6	a lot of people first came to know Bishop Baron through these videos.
1:12.8	It started in 2013.
1:14.7	We're also going to look at his top five videos of the past decade.
1:18.3	As we finish up 2020, we're going to look back over the past 10 years and talk through
1:22.7	some of his most popular videos.
1:25.3	Before we get there, Bishop, good to see you and how's the new year treating you so
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