Here’s a few upcoming events I’ll be a part of: Next Wednesday, May 5th, I’ll be giving a short presentation on “Passing on the Faith to the ‘Net’ Generation” at St. Cecelia Church in Glen Carbon, Illinois. A potluck, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, will start at 6p; the presentation will begin sometime around [...]
It is with great joy that I forward the news that the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois has a new bishop: Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Archdiocese of Chicago to be the new bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. He succeeds Archbishop George J. Lucas, [...]
This is a video of the webinar I offered earlier this month on strategies for passing on the faith to the “net generation.” For further reading on this subject I have also compiled a list of books, useful articles and tools referenced in the video. Catechizing Digital Natives from Jonathan Sullivan on Vimeo.
I don’t often link to other commentary on the web (the best way to find out what I’m reading on a given day is to follow me on Twitter), but this piece by Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., about whether to leave the Church in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal is too good to pass [...]
This week I am giving a webinar on catechizing the “digital generation.” The following are footnotes and suggestions for further reading from the webinar: Books Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey & Urs Gasser Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott Teaching [...]
Recently I’ve been having some fun using ChatRoulette as a sort of evangelization tool/sociology experiment. For those unfamiliar with the site, ChatRoulette pairs you up with a random stranger in a chat room. If you both have web cams you can even see each other. (Note: Many people take advantage of this function to display [...]
Two boys went to stay with their uncle, an auctioneer, and one day he let them come with him to a sale held at an old-fashioned country-house. All sorts of people crowded into a big room, farmers and shop-keepers and parsons’ wives, and dealers from London in fur-collared overcoats, smoking cigars.Various lots of furniture and [...]
