Dr. Matthew Petrusek is the host of the Word on Fire Show with Bishop Barron, the Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute, and the co-founder of advantageDES, a pioneering alternative to DEI built on the values of dignity, equality, and solidarity.
Motivated by the command to love God with both mind and heart, Petrusek’s talks integrate a nuanced examination of contemporary culture with the Church’s timeless wisdom and the Gospel’s inexhaustible power to heal brokenness and transform lives.
Petrusek is the award-winning author of Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture; Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life; Ethics and Advocacy: Bridges and Boundaries; and Value and Vulnerability: An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity. He offers regular commentary on national media outlets and frequently lectures in the US and abroad on religion, politics, social issues, workplace values, evangelization, education, and building a culture of life. He has an MA from Yale University and a PhD from the University of Chicago.
Sample talks include (can also be presented in Spanish):
1) Catholicism and Politics: An Antidote to Ideology
2) Dignity, Equality, and Solidarity: A Catholic Alternative to "DEI" (diversity, equity, &
inclusion) in the Workplace and Beyond
3) The Eighth Continent: How to Evangelize Online
4) A Theology of Free Speech
5) Reclaiming and Rehabilitating Social Justice
6) Thinking in Circles: Why You Are Already A Theologian (Even if You Didn't Know It)
7) Catholicism and Jordan Peterson
8) Secularism and Its Discontents: How to Evangelize a Broken Culture
9) Monastery, Mission, Cathedral: Three Models for Catholic Education
10) Be Not Afraid: A Field Guide to Defeating Wokeism
And many more…
Please feel free to suggest your own topic as well!
