David Beckmann is one of my favorite people. He leads Bread for the World, the world’s largest anti-hunger advocacy group, and was the recent winner of the World Food Prize–equivalent to a Nobel. Besides being a highly respected economist, he is also an ordained Lutheran minister, which enables him to speak intelligently about both faith …
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In John Allen’s book The Future Church, he makes two points regarding Catholicism’s changing demographics: The Church is going global like never before. In 1900, 75% of Catholics lived in North America or Europe. By 2000, more than 65% of the 1.1 billion Catholics lived in South America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. According to …
Through research for the upcoming Church and New Media book, I’ve been reading many books exploring the effects of electronic culture and the relationship between media and faith. Here are some short reviews of the latest books I’ve read: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas Carr This book grew out of …
“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 …
Here’s a peek at my current reading: The Writer’s Digest Writing Clinic(Kelly Nickell)Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati: An Ordinary Christian (Maria Di Lorenzo)The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism(Fr. Robert Barron) The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age(Sven Birkerts)The Face of God: The Rediscovery of the True Face of Jesus(Paul Badde)Fatima For Today: …
