• “Evangelization is about showing up”: Steve Dawson on taking the Gospel to the streets

  • Aug 9 2024
  • Length: 55 mins
  • Podcast

“Evangelization is about showing up”: Steve Dawson on taking the Gospel to the streets

  • Summary

  • There was a time when Steve Dawson found himself in trouble with the law, mired in destructive

    behaviors and relationships. Today he spends his days sharing the Good News with anyone who will

    listen, as founder and president of Saint Paul Street Evangelization (in between these two stages of his

    life, he says, he could be found downing Jack Daniels while watching Mother Angelica).

    Struck by how Jehovah’s Witnesses, Evangelicals, Mormons, and even atheists are comfortable

    preaching about their beliefs in the streets, Dawson has devoted his life to combating the perception

    that street evangelization “isn’t a Catholic thing.” In fact, preaching, teaching, and sharing the Good

    News in public are practices that go all the way back to the Apostles, and many great saints have

    engaged in them.

    During his years as a street evangelist, Dawson and his team have honed skills and developed methods

    of communicating the Faith in simple, accessible, and compelling ways. In this episode, Andrew Petiprin

    speaks with Dawson about his powerful conversion story, some of the amazing things that he’s seen in

    his years of street evangelizing, and why the basics of evangelization are important for every Catholic to

    master—whether they’re sharing the Faith on the street, in the workplace, or in their own families.

    Related reading: “Catholic Evangelization: Stories of Conversion and Witness”, now available at

    Ignatius.com.

    Learn more about Dawson’s work at Saint Paul Street Evangelization: https://streetevangelization.com/

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