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How to Experience the Eros of Easter Through the Cry of the Song of Songs
Spring is springing. Bees are buzzing. Flowers are blooming. All of creation is proclaiming the message of Easter – new life! If God is speaking to us through the natural world, then it’s clear that one of his favorite subjects, especially this time of year, is mating...
Making a Gift of Ourselves During the Pandemic
During this time of sheltering and quarantines, the TOBI staff remains hard at work from our homes continuing the mission to share with you St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. All of us by now know someone who has been affected by COVID-19, and we’ve been praying...
Unity-in-Difference as Challenge and Transformation
In our “cancel culture” we experience the consequences of difference as negative. Cancel culture is a space in which I can remove not only things with which I disagree, but the people behind those things. It is not discernment, but fundamental rejection of another....
‘What Priests Need to Save the Church’
So many books and articles have been written recently about the struggles we face in the Catholic Church today, and many of these focus on a reform that is needed in the priesthood, since as we know, without priests there is no Eucharist or absolution from sin. ...
Where Am I Falling Short In Love? — An Examination of Conscience
The following examination of conscience has been adapted from Christopher West’s book Love Is Patient but I’m Not: Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist (Wellspring Books/Beacon), which is based on Pope Francis’s reflections on Saint Paul’s famous hymn to love in...
Lent Is a Time of Courtship
Today is Ash Wednesday — the age-old tradition of crossing one’s forehead with ashes to remind ourselves that we are dust, and to dust we shall return. Ash Wednesday is also the beginning of the season of Lent, a time wherein we remember the Passion of Christ leading...
Encountering Saint Joseph
[NOTE: Jennifer Settle is Director of Programs for Theology of the Body Institute and co-author of Consecration to Jesus Through St. Joseph: An Integrated Look at the Holy Family. You can order the book for just $5 here.] I had no idea that St. Joseph would play such...
How to Communicate Complex Theology to a Mass Audience
If we want to be part of the New Evangelization then some of us are meant to be old-school evangelists too! On this episode of my podcast The Way of Beauty, Christopher West and I talk about his techniques for communicating complex theological concepts to a mass...
Sunday Funday and the Sabbath
Sunday, funday. For years now, the rise of brunch dollars, a day off, and the desire to find community in non-traditional ways has sparked this declaration of freedom. Social media posts rebrand Sunday as a time of fellowship and seven-dollar toast and mimosas,...
Undone: Freeing Your Feminine Heart from the Knots of Fear and Shame
[NOTE: This book features a chapter written by Jennifer Settle, director of programs for Theology of the Body Institute.] Last year for Christmas, my husband and I decided to replace our old swing set (which we affectionately named the death trap) with a brand new...
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