To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age

The highly anticipated follow-up to Bishop Robert Barron's hugely successful Catholicism: A Journey to the Faith


As secularism gains influence, and increasing numbers see religion as dull and backward, Robert Barron wants to illuminate how beautiful, intelligent, and relevant the Catholic faith is.

In this compelling new book—drawn from conversations with and narrated by award-winning Vatican journalist John L. Allen, Jr.—Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, proclaims in vivid language the goodness and truth of the Catholic tradition. Through Barron’s smart, practical, artistic, and theological observations as well as personal anecdotes—from engaging atheists on YouTube to discussing his days as a young diehard baseball fan from Chicago—To Light a Fire on the Earth covers prodigious ground.

Touching on everything from Jesus to prayer, science, movies, atheism, the spiritual life, the fate of Church in modern times, beauty, art, and social media, Barron reveals why the Church matters today and how Catholics can intelligently engage a skeptical world.

• Arguing Religion: A Bishop Speaks at Facebook and Google
• Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith
• Word on Fire: Proclaiming the Power of Christ
• The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism
• Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series)
• Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization
• Vibrant Paradoxes: The Both/And of Catholicism
• Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture
• And Now I See . . .: A Theology of Transformation
• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah