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

I loved this book. It's a quick read that left me enthusiastic about spreading the faith and inspired in my own faith. In fact, within one day of beginning to read I was quoting it around the house and changing my own actions based on the inspirations. I expected to learn more about Barron's life an......more

If you are interested in what the Catholic Church in the U.S. has to offer at its best and its most intelligent, look no further than Bishop Robert Barron. Not only I am catholic, but I also love Barron’s style, so I’m giving this book 5 stars without a doubt. Bishop Barron’s YouTube videos and his......more

Here's Father Barron, Chicago-born, Paris-educated, newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Los Angeles diocese, and now poster-child for American Catholicism. Deeply rooted in the past with teachers like Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Origen, and the more recent mystic/scholar Thomas Merton (d.1968) an......more

This book is well-written, but doesn’t really do what it sets out to do. It feels like Allen was hoping to write a blockbuster book picking apart Barron’s thoughts on evangelization and how it works, but realized in his interviews that to Barron, the answer is simple: read. There’s a bit more to tha......more

This is easily the best book I've read on the theory of evangelization, particularly the theory of evangelization in the contemporary West. As a Catholic priest whose job, therefore, is evangelization in the contemporary context, I am most grateful for this work and am most certainly putting it to......more