Friday Favourites: Getting to Know the Gospels Series
I wonder if anyone remembers SparkNotes. SparkNotes were big back in middle school—they were more or less the same thing as Cliff’s Notes. At first it was a website where […]
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Friday Favourites: A Year with Pope Francis
At the time this was written, Friday of last week, my coworkers and I were attending When Faith Meets Pedagogy up at the International Plaza Hotel in Toronto. It’s a […]
Greening Your Church
In 1930, an Englishman named Edmond K. Blyth was driving home from a visit to Liverpool Cathedral. He’d been a soldier in the First World War, and three of his […]
Friday Favourites: Peace: The Prayer of St. Francis
The Internet has failed me. To be fair, the Internet fails me on a regular basis. Today, though, the Internet has failed me in a professional sense: I can’t find […]
Friday Favourites: The Unfolding Journey
In one of my favourite fantasy novels, Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett—this relates to The Unfolding Journey, I promise—two people are sitting in a beautiful landscape magically removed from […]
Friday Favourites: Signs: Seven Words of Hope
On Wednesday night a group of us from Novalis were invited to a film screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, hosted by the Jesuit community in Toronto. There was good […]
Friday Favourites: Faith and Literature Matters
I had a lot of opportunity to get acquainted with our newest book Faith and Literature Matters this past week. We have review copies of all our books to be sent out, […]
Friday Favourites: Prayer: Our Deepest Longing
Reading this book was like sitting down and having coffee with a priest. It was simple and casual—no big words, no endless Bible quotes, no tedious sermons. I felt perfectly […]
Friday Favourites: Do Monkeys Go to Heaven?
“Uh-oh,” I thought, looking at the cover of Do Monkeys Go to Heaven? It shows a monkey with a halo above its head, sitting and looking unimpressed with the reader, […]
A Guide to All Things Catholic
“Oh, so that’s what a scapular is!” Growing up in a north Toronto neighbourhood, I’ve gone to an Anglican church all my life—a small church, full of the feeling of […]
Seeds of Faith 