This coming weekend marks the premier of “The Mighty Macs“, an exciting new movie about basketball and the power of faith. The film is based on the incredible true story of the 1971-72 Immaculata Mighty Macs team that became the original Cinderella-story in women’s college basketball. Immaculata was a private Catholic women’s college run by nuns, short on …
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Photo by Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit After sounding the call, we have the first picture! Here’s my friend Richard Evans holding The Church and New Media book at this week’s Archdiocesan Communications Day in St. Paul, Minnesota. The book was in great company, even beyond Richard. The Future Church was one of the best books I read in …
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine Because I’ve built up a large collection of duplicate books and resources, each week I’m giving away one or more of these items, absolutely free, no strings attached. You can enter …
Christian Smith, a preeminent sociologist, thinks that most Evangelicals misread the Bible. In The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture (Brazos Press, 240 pages, hardcover), Smith aims his attack specifically on “biblicism”. That’s his term for any Christian paradigm which places the Bible as the ultimate religious authority–a nuanced version …
“#2. Be Catholic yourself. You can’t give what you don’t have. Believe it, love it, live it. Don’t be ashamed of it, or worried about it. Actively assume it, like the air you breathe, so you don’t have to either push it, like a time share salesperson, or be skittery and worried about it, like …
