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Completion of a bright, inspiring cover is the latest milestone leading to publishing Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story: Tools, Tips, and Testimonies. When the editorial team started brainstorming about cover concepts, I didn’t have a clear vision of what art, lettering and colors would best convey the evangelization theme of the two parts of the...
Featured in New Evangelizers.com John Michael Talbot’s Lessons from a Troubadour: A Lifetime of Parables, Prose, and Stories brings to mind the first time I heard his music in the early 1980s. He’s known internationally as a composer and musician, but I find him to be so much more. When he composes, sings and plays music,...
Featured in CatholicMom.com John Michael Talbot’s Lessons from a Troubadour: A Lifetime of Parables, Prose, and Stories brings to mind the first time I heard his music in the early 1980s. He’s known internationally as a composer and musician, but I find him to be so much more. When he composes, sings and plays music, he’s worshiping...
Featured Favorite: Simple Acts of Love What simple acts of love can you do today to respond to Christ in others and let them discover him in you? https://joyalive.net/featured-favorite-simple-acts-of-love/ CatholicWriters Guild: Journal Your Faith Story, Part 2 How does your spiritual journal affect your writing? How does your writing reflect your spirituality? CWG: http://blog.catholicwritersguild.com/2019/02/writers-journal-your-faith-story-part-2.html JoyAlive.net:...
Part 2: The long and the short of it Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.org Last month in Part 1, I stressed preparing to evangelize by keeping a spiritual journal. As writers, we know that brevity gets attention! Focused words sell! To write an effective elevator speech, first write a long faith bio from bullet points of chronological events....
Part 1 – Always be ready to evangelize Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.com Writers keep a journal to capture inspirations, observations, story ideas, helpful quotes and random musings. These all relate to our writing vocation, which urges us to express ourselves in writing. Christians have a higher calling. We are anointed at Baptism to become evangelists. How fortunate are Catholic...
Featured on CatholicMom.com The subtitle of 10 Promises of Jesus by Marge Fenelon is Scripture Reflections about Suffering and Joy reflects only a part of what the book has to offer. It doesn’t tell you about the beautiful stories Marge collected from those who have suffered some of the most difficult tragedies you can imagine....