Today we welcome Colleen Vermeulen to the New Evangelizers blogging team! Reflection on Acts 17:16-34 At first glance, what we find in Acts 17 seems pretty standard. A Christian guy sees that the people around him aren’t worshipping the true…
Valentines, not Resolutions
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? Feeling guilty yet? The excesses of the holidays make clear the need to evaluate many aspects of our lives and resolve to change them. In February we realize how idealistic we were on…
A Seven Sacraments Lesson
Every few months we have all our families involved in religious education classes come together for Family Faith and Fun. This is an activity for that group which can be modified for your group, class or family; the group I work with…
Why We Stone Prophets
Readings for February 3, 2013: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time “In polite conversation, never bring up politics or religion.” That’s the advice I was given as a child. And it’s good advice, too, if your aim is to be well-liked….
On the Potter’s Wheel
To start with, let me be perfectly clear. I was not born a craft-y person. I could make nothing recognizable with my playdoh, and the scarves I made with my knitting jenny turned into long shapeless things. I’m still…
Opening My Eyes to the Grief of Abortion
As I write this, there are many people marching the streets across the U.S. in opposition of the anniversary of the death sentence for unborn children, Rowe v. Wade. Over 250,000 people storm Washington, DC annually to protest abortion in…
The Accidental Evangelist: An Interview with Michael Behe
Michael Behe is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. His book, Darwin’s Black Box, argues that the existence of the natural world is better explained by the purposeful action of a designer…
Give Away The Things You Want
“If you want more of something, then give away what you have,” Fr. Nick Schneider preached on a recent Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. “If you want more joy, then give joy to others. If you want…
Confidence in the Faith, our Youth Ministry Retreat, and Xtreme Discipleship
This past weekend I served and assisted in a Youth Ministry themed: “Confidence in the Faith.” Appropriate for the Year of Faith and the Holy Father’s call for the New Evangelization, it was also appropriate for what we discerned from…
Evangelization Begins From Within
There is a common phrase that states, “change begins from within,” and as one of the greatest changes we will ever experience, we must realize that evangelization begins from within, as well. At some point in your life, you may…