Editor’s note: Today we welcome Joe Wetterling to the New Evangelizers blogging team! I love analogies. If you aren’t familiar with them (or have blocked them out of your memory ever since the SATs), here is the idea: an analogy compares…
The Analogy of Fatherhood
The Power of Face-to-Face: Catholics in Dallas
At the end of August, I did a rare thing: I boarded a plane and flew across the country, sans kids, to the glory of an in-person meet-up of immense Catholic proportions. It was the Catholic Marketing Network trade show AND the Catholic Writers…
All Those Immoral People
How to best defend traditional marriage is a hot topic among Catholics. Perhaps it’s due to President Barack Obama’s May 2012 announcement that, although he had at one time opposed same-sex marriages as a matter of faith, he had “evolved”…
Faith and Football
Conversion can happen at any place, at any time, and generally happens when we reach an intersection in our lives. For me, it happened at the corner of Faith and Football. Growing up, watching football was a large part of…
Deaf Hear and Mute Speak: The Meaning of Miracles
Editor’s note: Today we welcome Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio to the New Evangelizers blogging team! His reflections on Sunday’s readings will appear here each Sunday. Many thanks to Dr. D’Ambrosio for his generosity in sharing these with all of us! Readings for…
Evangelizing on Facebook
I don’t know about you, but I love Facebook. I have had many people who are not huge fans of technology tell me that they don’t “get” Facebook. At first, I didn’t either. I just added some friends and each…
How to Succeed
Editor’s note: Today we welcome Michael Lindner to the New Evangelizers blogging team! Many years ago, when I was in my mid-thirties, my employer sent me to one of those “effective leadership” courses. Over the course of three days, I spent…
Opinion, Knowledge, Faith
Often in class we will talk about controversial things. I will say that the unborn child is human from the moment of conception or that sex before marriage is a mortal sin. Sometimes I will say something which I don’t…
‘Extreme Makeover’ Remedies Cultural Deception
In Extreme Makeover, Women Transformed by Christ, Not Conformed to the Culture, Teresa Tomeo presents a personal plan of cultural detox from the oppressive influence of the media. “It’s sad to say many have accepted the lies of the world…
Activity to Introduce the Year of Faith
The following is an outline of a presentation I have planned for our faith formation “Family Faith and Fun” day to introduce the Year of Faith. If you are working only with children, then omit the adult discussion parts and…