Category: Catholicism

TOT: Spiritual Lessons about Politics

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Did your Christmas presents disappoint? Did Santa get lost on the way to your house? Were you naughty and not, in fact, nice? Well, no need to worry! In today’s post there’s a present we can all enjoy! 😉

Back in November we had another round of Theology On Tap here in San Diego, this time at John Paul “The Great” University. The first talk was from Dr. Michael Barber, entitled “Spiritual Lessons about Politics from the book of Revelation”. Dr. Barber’s talk is broken into two MP3s, roughly half an hour apiece, and is available for download below:

Main Talk (Download)

Q&A (Download)

No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength…
We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. – Psalm 33:16-20

Four Horsemen

They clearly want us to vote Republican…

This year I’m actually going to be re-reading Dr. Barber’s commentary on the Book of Revelation and studying it with my friend Kevin, so you can probably expect to see a few Apocalyptic-related posts “coming soon”… 🙂

Friday Frivolity: Stuff

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As the Christmas consumerism reaches fever pitch, I thought it would be a good time to share the following George Carlin video. WARNING: if you’re unfamiliar with Carlin, his language gets rather “colourful”…

I would like to dedicate this video to all those I’ve helped move in 2012… 😉

Introduction to Early Church History

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Have you ever wanted to get a better grasp of Early Church History, but not really known where to start? Do those thick books on Church History and Patristics intimidate you? Well, if so, I’d thoroughly recommend you check out Fr. Michael Witt’s website.

Unfortunately, the website is rather in need of a facelift, but the content is superb. Fr. Witt divides Church history into three sections: Early Church, Medieval and Modern. In each section there are MP3s of Fr. Witt and his co-host, Teresa, discussing each of these periods of history.

I first discovered Fr. Witt’s site while I was living in London and, over the course of a year’s worth of journeys on public transport I managed listened to the entirety of the Early Church library. Hmmm…maybe it’s time to do that again…

Tea, reading and other important topics…

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Here are some statistics from 2003 conducted by The Jenkins Group:

• One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.

• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.

• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.

• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.

Shocking, right? I mention these statistics because I am currently picking out the books I’m going to read in 2013, drawing heavily from the Best Catholic Books of All-Time list posted by Brandon Vogt:

Best Catholic Books

I’ll be posting my 2013 Reading List in a week or two. So what books do you plan to read next year?

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