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February 2018

February 16, 2018

If you want vocations, make disciples

Sherry Weddell wrote this a couple of years ago. It's more pertinent than ever: I...

February 03, 2018

Taking the stages of intentional discipleship seriously

In Forming Intentional Disciples terms, this is a person who is moving from trust to...

January 2018

January 27, 2018

Sherry Weddell’s Address to Mundelein Seminary

This is why Bishop Robert Barron regards her Forming Intentional Disciples as the finest work...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Yay! Got my copy!

...of Fruitful Discipleship by Sherry Weddell! The scenes with the killer dinosaurs, car chases, and...

June 22, 2017

Fruitful Discipleship by Sherry Weddell is here

Fruitful Discipleship: Living the Mission of Jesus in the Church and the World has landed...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

Thinking like an apostle

An aging bishop is retiring early so he can return to the mission field. This...

September 2016

September 09, 2016

All I can think of as I read Clapton’s Autobiography

is the visceral prayer of the tax collector in Jesus' parable, crying "Lord, have mercy...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

Bill Gates

...goes to Mass with his family. says, "It makes sense to believe in God." Slow...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

Six 20-somethings in D.C. will give up many comforts of modern life for a year …

...to serve the sick and the poor, a nod to the pope’s teachings.

September 2015

September 28, 2015

All in all, a spectacularly successful visit, thanks be to God

Here is one of the highlights, his speech to the World Meeting of Families. What...

September 24, 2015

Sherry Weddell will be on “Connecting the Dots” today

Sherry is the author of Forming Intentional Disciples. We will be discussing the Francis Effect...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

My Take on the “Declining Religion in America” poll results

We are all Seattleites now. If you think that Americans should go on being conventionally...

June 16, 2015

Religiously speaking, Everywhere in America is Becoming…

Seattle. That's not all bad. Christianity in Seattle is intentional, not cultural or ethnic.

May 2015

May 06, 2015

A crie de coeur from a layperson to her priest

A reader sent along this beautiful letter she sent her priest: "Modern man listens more...

April 2015

April 17, 2015

Is the Pope Protestant?

No. The Church is Christian. If the notion of the Catholic faith as a living relationship with...

November 2014

November 04, 2014

Interesting and Beautiful Follow-up to our Five Stages of Intentional Discipleship Discussion

A reader writes: In light of all the flak you've been getting with all this...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

Fr. Robert Barron on Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples

These two people have an awful lot of good to say and do for the...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Sherry Weddell is Everywhere

The United States is experiencing a "transition from a strong cultural Catholicism to an intentional...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples…

...is rocking the Catholic world. It has sold around 40,000 copies (a *gigantic* number for...

October 04, 2013

A really fine exchange between Tom Kreitzberg and a reader upset by Pope Francis

A reader writes: Mark, any chance for a little compassion for people who are feeling...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Sarah Reinhard has a fine review of “Forming Intentional Disciples”…

here. If you haven't read it, you really should. It's one of the most important...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Laypeople are 99.999% of the Church

"If laypeople don’t love their Catholic faith enough to struggle for it in the public...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Whoa! A Trifecta of People I Think the World of!

So fellow Patheosi Frank Weathers interviews my pal Rod Bennett on Forming Intentional Disciples (a...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

On the National Catholic Reporter

So the other day, Bp. Finn made one of those announcements that made me go,...

November 2012

November 19, 2012

Magister Christianus…

...is guilty and inspired as he confronts the fact that we live in a post-Christian...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Without Catholic Discipleship, Nothing Else Matters

The Irenist writes True Truth in my comboxes: Very few Christians of any denomination in...

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