Scabby People and That Grim-Faced Nun
One night decades ago I was watching TV; that nun, Mother Teresa, was on the Tonight Show. I knew she’d won a Nobel prize, took care of scabby…
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Author: Christian LeBlanc
Making your own icebreaker
Y’all know how the New Evangelization means you have to actually speak to, well, people. Sometimes people you don’t know. Standing in front of you. About religious stuff.…
Organic Catechesis with the Bible
Fellow blogger Ruth Curcuru (who uses the handle RAnn) recently commented on a catechetical post from my blog, observing that the current catechetical model takes “a topic-based approach…
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…then you should be catechizing in a classroom. I already know you are a self-selected follower of New Evangelizers. Therefore I also know: A. You take evangelizing seriously.…
The Story of a Painting
Editor’s Note: Today, Christian LeBlanc shares another perspective with us. His friend Mary-Michelle Moody does her own Christmas cards, and the one pictured is one that he particularly…
Tough Guys Don’t Pitch Tents
About 30 years ago I read the Norman Mailer novel Tough Guys Don’t Dance. It’s about a son, Tim Madden, who simply will never be as tough a guy…
Transsubstati-what?
I can read something in the Bible a hundred times and still bump into something new. For example, on Palm Sunday I was browsing Luke’s Gospel before Mass…
From Science to Salvation
Albert Einstein derived the formula E = mc² over a century ago. I love this equation…it’s easier to understand than you might guess. E is energy; m is mass…
Why I Own a Cheap Bible
When I first started reading the Bible regularly, I used a plain hardbound copy of the NAB. But because it was hardbound, I wouldn’t mark it up. I…
Finding Intentional Charisms
I recently finished reading Forming Intentional Disciples by Sherry Weddell. As I’ve said in an earlier article, it’s a how-to book on newly-evangelizing yourself; then your parish; and then…