Tag: Evangelization

Break Me Open: The Discomforts of Evangelization

Break Me Open: The Discomforts of Evangelization

[ 12 ] November 19, 2012 AD |

Often, I wonder what an authentically Catholic, person-centered approach to evangelization looks like.  So many goods, particularly sex, love, the body, and the family, have been twisted and misinterpreted by the culture.  The truth is ours to reclaim. I still can feel the floor under my little carpet square.   Seven years ago, I went [...]

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Pursuit of hoppiness

Pursuit of hoppiness

[ 3 ] April 18, 2012 AD |

“Take one down, pass it around…” and let good times roll.  Today we live in the early days of the New Evangelization.  Beyond all catechetical programs and adult formation classes, there is one common thread that I have seen through many lives of converts.  Fr. C. John McCloskey has written a book on it which I [...]

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Spiritual CPR

Spiritual CPR

[ 6 ] March 27, 2012 AD |

Last month I took a CPR and First Aid training course. All I can say is: why is this not a high school graduation requirement?! Honestly, it’s so simple. CPR itself only takes about 45 minutes to learn. 45 minutes in exchange for being able to save someone’s life in an emergency. “Worth it” would [...]

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Election Season and YOU

Election Season and YOU

[ 1 ] March 9, 2012 AD |

” If only we had another Ronald Reagan. ” The words floated out of my friends mouth and hung in mid-air. It is a tendency we all have- to see the past as better, but as I listened to him extol the greatness of Reagan I couldn’t help but think it a bit naive. We are [...]

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Why I Love People Who Hate Religion

Why I Love People Who Hate Religion

[ 3 ] January 19, 2012 AD |

I think I should probably get out more. Apparently there is a video that went viral (is it just me, or does that phrase just sound bad?) on the internet of a young man standing in a parking lot rapping about why he hates religion but loves Jesus. I heard about it through the responses [...]

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