Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm your host Matthew Patruck. Thank you for joining us.

Today we bring you Bishop Barron's lecture from last year's The New Ray Sorsmant Conference.

The New Raysorsmant is a quarterly journal of theology and philosophy published by Word on Fire academic.

It serves the church and the academy by publishing scholarly articles

that demonstrates the depth and relevance of the Catholic tradition.

In this talk Bishop Barron explains the roots of this theological movement. the and the particular concerns this movement aims to address.

Enjoy.

All right, good.

Well I won't repeat everything I just said to you about.

The importance of the life of the mind.

I mean, you know that.

And it's an important part of word on fire

and evangelizing the culture.

So that's why this journal is so important

and why I'm delighted to be able to celebrate its inauguration with all of you.

So thank you for your commitment to it, which means the world to me.

And a lot of us were saying during our little cocktail hour there the importance of just getting on with it.

You know, we're not on fire in many ways came from a desire to stop ringing our hands and do something about it.

So a lot of people are complaining about this and that and the church, we're not doing enough,

and what about the new media, about evangelization and we're great at

bringing our hands in the church but we're not that good at getting on with it and

I think we're on fire managed to do that and so I see this journal as part of that ethos that we

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