WOF 324: Understanding Genesis: Joseph

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Friends, today we conclude our “Word on Fire Show” series on how to understand Genesis by focusing on Joseph, the great figure who went from slave to ruler of Egypt.

How should we understand his sinking into slavery and prison? Or his gift for interpreting dreams? As Christians, what’s the big takeaway from the Joseph story?

A listener asks, how do you begin learning philosophy casually without getting bogged down?

Links

With All the Saints: My Journey to the Roman Catholic Church by Mark Galli
“Thomas and the New Atheists” – Bishop Barron talk

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's God up to?
0:04.5	Ultimately, our salvation. That's true. It's a divine comedy.
0:09.8	The Bible's not like, hey, who knows?
0:11.6	Either it could be this... No, no.
0:13.4	Its trajectory is toward salvation.
0:16.7	But what a rocky road the Lord has for us.
0:20.3	Music
0:27.3	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the Senior Publishing Director.
0:32.3	Today we wrap up our series on Understanding Genesis.
0:36.3	By looking at one of the final episodes in this great book, namely the story of Joseph,
0:41.3	the great figure who went from slave to ruler of Egypt.
0:45.3	And of course we're here to talk about that with Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop, good to see you.
0:50.3	Hey, Brandon. Always good to see you.
0:52.3	What I was like to update people on your latest comings and goings and you recently gave a really good talk
0:58.3	at the Tomestic Institute on Thomas and the New Atheist, Thomas Aquinas, of course.
1:04.3	Tell us about that talk and how it was received.
1:07.3	Yeah, it was for the free day of St. Thomas on January 28th.
1:10.3	It's for me at St. Mark's Parish, which is a parish of the Arstaisies, but right on the campus of UCSB,
1:17.3	University of California at Santa Barbara out here.
1:20.3	So it's a bit like a Newman Center type feel.
1:24.3	I've gone there many, many times to say mass and visit with the young people.
1:27.3	It's a great place. A lot of locations have come out of that parish.
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