Fr. Harrison Ayre wrote a recent book, Mysterion: The Revelatory Power of the Sacramental Worldview. I think this is one of the best recent books on a Catholic worldview. So, I posted a review over on Aleteia. You can read […]
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Summary of God Loves the Autistic Mind in Florida Catholic Media
A few things have been published about my book, God Loves the Autistic Mind, and I think the summary posted in the newspaper of the Florida Catholic Bishops is one of the best summaries I’ve seen. I’ll quote part of […]
Read moreOrder My Book
After a long time of preparation, you can finally pre-order my Book, God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us. It is only so far available in the USA, but should […]
Read moreMacaskill on Autism and the Church
Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community by Grant Macaskill (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019), 239 pp. A while back I wrote a review for this work but it takes a while for academic journals to publish. Nova et […]
Read moreDiscovering I was a “Catholic Hipster” before that was a thing!
I wrote a book review on Aleteia: In The Catholic Hipster Handbook, writer Mary Rezac has a chapter on buying from the local farmer’s markets as a way of living the principle of subsidiarity, but she doesn’t go to the extreme of starting […]
Read more“Why I am Catholic?” – Bringing the Transcendentals into Apologetics
I wrote a review of “Why I am Catholic?” by Brandon Vogt for Aleteia. When I was in my teens and 20s I loved apologetics books. I loved learning all these scriptural zingers to hit Protestants with. It made me […]
Read more‘Amoris Laetitia’ is about accompaniment, not the divorced and remarried
I reviewed an excellent book on Crux today: When I subtitled my summary of Amoris Laetitia on the day it came out “About Every Family, Not Just Divorced and Civilly Remarried,” I knew the Communion issue was going to be the […]
Read moreMercy in Stories
A few months ago I received a free book on mercy from an associate professor of religious studies at a Catholic university. I was expecting a very technical explanation of what mercy was – a theological treatise. Instead, it was […]
Read moreRisen: a Movie Ruined by Trying to Be a Christian Movie More Than Trying to Be a Good Movie
[Spoiler alerts: I give away the plot] I don’t write movie reviews because I simply don’t watch that many movies. Several people had told me that Risen was a great movie so I found time to watch it a few […]
Read moreS2S: Free Catholic Student Planner Giveaway
I met the young man who invented the Catholic Planner at a media conference in Brooklyn last month. He has a new project of making a student version he calls S2S for Sinner to Saint. I think it really gets […]
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