I think children and the obligation they carry have a unique way of breaking us out of

that cocoon of self-regard.

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.

I'm Brandon Vat, the senior publishing director at Word on Fire.

Today I'm with Bishop Aaron and we will be discussing parenthood, children, and freedom.

This parenthood suffocating or liberating.

The children keep you from self-discovery or do they facilitate your identity.

Today we're going to discuss those questions in light of a couple controversial articles

one in Time magazine, the other in the New York Times, all swirling around these topics.

But before we do, Bishop Aaron, good to see you.

Hey Brandon, always good to see you.

Let's talk about a couple updates here.

One is that you recently joined all of the parishes participating in the Word on Fire

Engage Program.

If you don't know about this program, check it out.

You can find it at Engage.wordonfire.org.

But it's a service word on fire provides to parishes to help them evangelize people that

aren't coming to church.

We have all sorts of digital means and tools.

We have coaching that our Word on Fire staff provides and they get special Q&A sessions with

Bishop Aaron.

You just did one of those with all the parish leaders.

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