Becoming an Apostolic Parish: The Ron Huntley Leadership Podcast

Becoming an Apostolic Parish: The Ron Huntley Leadership Podcast

This past week, I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Catholic leadership and evangelization coach Ron Huntley for a conversation about The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World. You can listen on Spotify or Apple podcasts, or watch via YouTube:

Signs and Wonders as the Necessary, Initiating Spur of the Eucharistic Revival
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Signs and Wonders as the Necessary, Initiating Spur of the Eucharistic Revival

In my last post I mused on how one fosters a Eucharistic Revival. I offered the perhaps bold statement that there is no way revival happens without the signs and wonders model of evangelization. I’d like to unpack that a bit….

How Do You Foster a Eucharistic Revival? (Hint: four ways)
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How Do You Foster a Eucharistic Revival? (Hint: four ways)

If you haven’t heard…we in the United States are in a Eucharistic revival. Have you heard? I forgive you if you haven’t heard. While I think this is one of the most impressive mission initiatives I have heard yet from USCCB, I know lots of people have not heard much, if anything. While I think…

Evangelization Needs More Football Players

Evangelization Needs More Football Players

Evangelization needs more football players. Football, when it is played well, is a game of real strategy, skillset, and power. While you typically need all three to win, the essential need is not power and not skill, but strategy. You need to know where the goal is, how to play offense, how to work together…

Evangelizing is for Rural America, Too

Evangelizing is for Rural America, Too

The second in our “Starting Conversations” series. Feel free to share with your parish staff, community, small group, or some friends for some dialogue on evangelization topics that don’t get as much air time as they should. One problem I tend to see with the processes available to parishes that wish to become evangelizing parishes…

Why Don’t We Evangelize People Living with Disabilities?

Why Don’t We Evangelize People Living with Disabilities?

For all the discussion of the New Evangelization in the past forty years, there are topics that simply don’t get discussed, and should. I’m offering an occasional series of posts called Starting Conversations that I hope will get people thinking, talking, and doing. While I will offer opinions, my offerings are meant more to serve…

How Do You Awaken Thirst for God In People Who Say They Don’t Care?

How Do You Awaken Thirst for God In People Who Say They Don’t Care?

As I write this, we’re still in the graces of this past Easter Sunday, full of the good news that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, and his life, death, and resurrection saves, heals, and transforms our lives. Because He is our friend and our LORD, we each have specific divine plans for our…

Are You a Catholic Evangelist? You Should Be…Here’s Why, and How to Start
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Are You a Catholic Evangelist? You Should Be…Here’s Why, and How to Start

Evangelization has been a dirty word in Catholic circles for too long, maybe because so many Catholics haven’t seen it done well. Here’s a book that helps us re-imagine how we do evangelization…and maybe even make it fun. by Susan Windley-Daoust Evangelization. Ugh…that word! People immediately think of soapboxes, megaphones, door to door missionaries, and…

The Sacrament of the Present Moment (without Sacraments)
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The Sacrament of the Present Moment (without Sacraments)

How do Catholics engage Holy Week in a Covid-19 pandemic without the lifeblood of grace, the sacraments? Perhaps it’s not in more online everything. A spiritual master from 400 years ago taught us how to not let this pandemic spiritually kill us. by Susan Windley-Daoust Two weeks ago, I ran into an old friend and…