The Faith of First Responders with Benjamin O’Brien

About this episode

Jason Adkins speaks with firefighter and author Benjamin O’Brien about living Catholic faith as a first responder amidst various challenges.

What does it mean to live your Catholic faith when the sirens are sounding, and the culture is shifting beneath your feet? In this episode of Catholic in America, Jason Adkins speaks with firefighter and author Benjamin O’Brien about his memoir, The Proving Grounds: A Catholic on Ladder 17. Benjamin shares what it was like to serve as a first responder while navigating: Workplace harassment for his faithPride activism within his departmentThe moral and professional tension surrounding COVID m...

People in this episode

Host: Jason Adkins

Guest: Benjamin O’Brien

Topics covered

• faith
• first responders
• Catholicism
• workplace harassment
• COVID-19
• pride activism

Keywords

• first responders
• Catholic faith
• workplace harassment
• pride activism
• COVID-19
• memoir

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Proving Grounds: A Catholic on Ladder 17

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