WOF 233: How to Disagree Well
05/25/20 • 33 min
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An article by the Protestant pastor Timothy Keller offers “6 Principles for How to Argue When You Disagree.” Bishop Barron and Brandon walk through the article and discuss how we can have better conversations with people who hold very different views than us.
A listener asks if, as a priest, Bishop Barron ever gets bored at prayer.
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An article by the Protestant pastor Timothy Keller offers “6 Principles for How to Argue When You Disagree.” Bishop Barron and Brandon walk through the article and discuss how we can have better conversations with people who hold very different views than us.
A listener asks if, as a priest, Bishop Barron ever gets bored at prayer.
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WOF 232: The Cataclysm Sentence
One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?”
In today’s episode we apply that same thought experiment to some of the greatest thinkers and saints from our tradition. What one sentence would encapsulate their thought? We look at Moses, Jesus, Paul, Augustine, Aquinas, Merton, and even Bishop Barron’s own “cataclysm sentence”!
A listener asks whether God made a mistake in creating humans.
Links- Watch “Sacraments” film
- Radio Lab episode – “The Cataclysm Sentence”
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WOF 234: Kids Q&A w/ Bishop Barron (June 2020)
Kids ask the best questions, and today Bishop Barron responds to many from around the world:
- Why did Jesus die on the cross rather than some other death?
- Why did God make other planets that people can’t live on?
- Where does God sleep?
- Will you have friendships in Heaven and will they be the same as friendships on Earth
- If God can do anything, can he make a mistake?
- Is an angel a spirit or soul? Also, could there be two Supreme Beings?
- Why did God allow the Devil to exist?
- What is the point of people? Why did God decide to create us?
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