Young people want that. They want the real thing. And we shouldn't settle for, well, you're

kind of a spiritual person, you know, keep seeking. No, no, they want something nourishing.

And the Benedictines can give it to them.

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing

director. What can St. Benedict, a six century monk, teach us about evangelization today?

Well, that's what you'll find out in today's discussion with Bishop Baron. Bishop, it

is good to be with you as always. Hey, Brandon. How's life in Orlando? Life is very well.

I want to talk about two really interesting conversations you've had. One of them was

your participation in this event called the Big Think. What was that about? Oh, yeah.

It's sponsored by the Temple of Foundation. We have a relationship with them now. We're

doing a number of things with them. And it's very good. It was very intense about two

and a half hour conversation. And we talked about, as the title suggests, a lot of big

topics. One was forgiveness. The whole theme of forgiveness coming up out of the New Testament,

how that affects our lives today, questions of nonviolence and justice and all that. And

then we got deeply into God. So they were very interested in my writings about God and

atheism and what the atheists get wrong and how Christians understand God, the great theological

and philosophical tradition around that. And then we got into, of course, the problem of

suffering, which you almost always do when you talk about God. We talked about heaven

hell. We talked about a number of just really big deep ideas. And it was good, long intense.

And then I'll be coming out. I don't know, sometimes soon.

Well, definitely have a link to that. When that comes out, another great conversation

you had was as a part of our Bishop Aaron Presents series, which we're ramping back up.

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