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 [...]
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 [...]
Next month I will be offering another webinar on technology and catechesis: Today’s generation gap seems larger than ever. The students in our parishes and schools are comfortable with technologies that seemed like science fiction when many of us were growing up. Given the radically different way that “digital natives” use technology to take in [...]
The second episode of NCCL‘s new podcast is live! I had a great conversation with Jared Dees of thereligionteacher.blogspot.com and William O’Leary of catechesisinthethirdmillennium.wordpress.com about catechesis and blogs. You can listen to the whole episode right here:
I am reluctant to enter into discussion of liturgical theology and practice. It is not the field in which I work and I have little education on the subject. That having been said, my diocese, like many others, is preparing for the Vatican’s recognitio of the translation of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal. [...]
I’m happy to announce that I am hosting a new podcast for the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership. Catechetical Leader will come out once a month and features interviews and discussions related to religious education, faith formation and evangelization in the Church. The first episode, “The Once and Future Catechist,” is now live. You can [...]
The Office for Catechesis of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is proud to unveil the first issue of COREnotes, our new catechetical newsletter. We’ll be releasing COREnotes four times a year. We’re still working on automated sign-up; if you’d like to receive an email notice every time a new issue is available, leave a [...]
This is a video of the webinar I presented last month on social networking for Catholic teachers and catechists. Social Networking – A Primer for Catholic Teachers and Catechists from Jonathan Sullivan on Vimeo.
I will be offering two learning opportunities aimed at catechests in the coming months: The first is a one-hour webinar on social networking. This webinar will offer an overview of social networking for beginners with a special emphasis on implications for Catholic educators and catechists. I will take a brief look at the Church’s teaching [...]
The November 2007 issue of Touchstone Magazine had an enlightening symposium on the current state of the Evangelical movement (with a promise of future discussions concerning Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and mainline Protestantism). The comments are frank and honest, pointing out the movement’s shortcomings as well as it successes. I was especially struck by this [...]
