Catholic Cornucopia

Biblical Literacy Made Easy: A Practical Guide for Catechists, Teachers, and Youth MinistersBrian Singer-TownsSaint Mary’s Press, 2008, 69 pp., $6.95, www.smp.orgI’m Glad You Asked! 60 Common Ques...

Bead One, Pray Too

Bead One, Pray Too is a wonderful and informative journey into the ancient practice and history of prayer beads. Many of us who are Protestants often balk at the notion of using prayer beads, but Winston puts o...

Pagan Christianity

Any book that begins with a publisher’s pre-emptive warning captures my attention. What the book attempts to achieve will capture yours. The book investigates and questions the scriptural validity of many...

Taking Catholicism Deeper

Handbook for YouthBrian Singer-TownsSaint Mary Press, February 2008, 474 pp., $18.95, www.smp.orgAlmost CatholicJon M. SweenyJossey Bass, February 2008, 230 pp., $19.95, www.josseybass.com For xpanded and ex...

Got Heroes? Staffing to Save the World

It’s almost Go time. Your cast begins to assemble. On cue, the theme music blares as Gary the Game Guy enters with gadgets and gear to take on the fiercest junior high student. Striding behind him is Emil...

ReImagining Youth Ministry

“Imagine” was former Beatle John Lennon’s agnostic anthem from his 1971 album of the same name. Here, Pastor Paul Turner applies Lennon’s song to the task of reimagining youth ministry. ...