Footnotes and Further Reading – Marketing Your School Online
Today I offered a breakout session at the 2010 Diocesan Adult Enrichment Conference on school marketing in the internet era. The following are footnotes and suggestions for further readings for the attendees: Books Branding Faith: Why Some Churches and Nonprofits Impact Culture and Others Don’t, by Phil Cooke (you can also read my review of this book) The Cluetrain Manifesto, by Rick Levine et al (this dense book, written in 1999, was remarkably prescient about the impact the internet would have on business and society) Web Sites and Articles One Minute School Website Check Catholic...
Read MoreFootnotes and Further Reading – Administration as Service
Today and tomorrow I am offering a breakout session at the 2010 Diocesan Adult Enrichment Conference for administrators in the Church. The following are footnotes and suggestions for further readings for the attendees: Books The Catholic Vision for Leading Like Jesus, by Owen Phelps Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, by Kerry Patterson, et al Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, by Jim Collins Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer, by Jim Collins Church Teaching Christifideles...
Read MoreCatholic Social Doctrine – Footnotes and Further Reading
As promised to the participants, these are the footnotes and suggested readings from my Catholic Social Doctrine course: Books Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (also available at vatican.va) Catholic Social Thought: The Documentary Heritage, edited by David J. O’Brien and Thomas A. Shannon Caritas in Veritate, by Pope Benedict XVI (also available at vatican.va) A Study Guide to Living Charity in Truth, compiled by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political...
Read MoreNew CL Podcast – Parents and the Priesthood
The latest episode of the Catechetical Leader podcast is on the air! This month I did something a little different; instead of an interview this episode features part of a talk given by Fr. Andrew-Carl Wisdom, O.P., to a group of DREs from my diocese. In it he talks about some of the fears shared by the parents he talks to as their sons discern a vocation to the priesthood. Fr. Wisdom is the promoter of vocations for the Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great. He is also author of the pamphlet Why Should I Encourage My Son To Be A Priest? and the book Advent and Christmas Wisdom from St....
Read MoreYou/Who/Do/Through
[Welcome to new readers directed here from Joe Paprocki's Catechist's Journey blog -- and thanks to Joe for the shout-out! You can subscribe to my blog by clicking on the RSS link at the top of the page or following me @sullijo on Twitter. You might also be interested in a free webinar I will be giving November 17: Reaching Parishioners with Facebook.] Tuesday’s webinar on Leading Prayer as a Catechist by Joe Paprocki (catechist extraordinaire and brother to my boss) was excellent. I was especially impressed with the section on extemporaneous (or spontaneous) prayer — something...
Read MoreCOREnotes Issue 004
The fourth issue of COREnotes, my office’s catechetical newsletter, was released last week. This issue covers the 2010 Catechetical Sunday theme, “Matrimony: Sacrament of Enduring...
Read MorePassing on the Faith to the Net Generation – Footnotes and Further Reading
Last night I gave a short talk to my Knights of Columbus council on technology, catechesis, and young Catholics. I talked about some characteristics of young adults in general and Catholics in particular with an eye on how the Knights can be more inviting of young Catholic men. Here are a few of the resources I cited during my talk: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky American Millennials: Generations Apart (poll by the Knights of Columbus in partnership with The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion) The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy...
Read MoreCOREnotes Issue 003
The second issue of the Office for Catechesis‘ newsletter, COREnotes, has been released! You can sign up to receive COREnotes in your inbox at...
Read MoreTweeting Institutionally
A few weeks back a colleague in NCCL asked about how I make decisions regarding social networking on behalf of NCCL and my diocese. This was my off-the-cuff reply: Some quick background: My criteria for making these decisions when acting in an institutional capacity is different than my criteria for my personal accounts, especially re: Twitter; for my personal account I’m pretty indiscriminate about who I follow, since I believe the value of Twitter is in making connections and self-limiting those connections diminishes that value. Twitter My decisions about whom to follow via the NCCL...
Read MoreVideo: Catechizing Digital Natives webinar
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...
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