Every three months, our local Knights of Columbus council would sponsor a speaker for our Defending Our Faith night. This one particular night I was pretty excited, because one of my all-time favorite Catholic speakers was coming to our Parish. I arrived early, only to find a table of youth group kids eating pizza. Now even though I was in my mid-twenties, I had the appearance of a youth group kid and was invited to join the pizza-eating festivities. Don’t mind if I do : )
A man wearing a suit and a really cool mustache came and sat down at our table—as if I have the right to say that I was a part of this fine group of young people. This man started to tell a story of Christ’s crucifixion in a way that I had never really heard described. He then engaged us in an intriguing conversation that reminded me of something C.S. Lewis might have said. This man introduced himself as Dr. Ray and he proceeded to eat delicious pizza with us.
He looked different than what I had imagined his voice to be on the radio. Dr. Ray Guarendi is one of the hosts of “The Doctor is In”, which I was an avid listener to on Living Bread Radio. On the show, he takes calls relating to parenting, family relationships, homeschooling, adoption, and sometimes questions about our faith.
Last year or so, I attended the Media & Faith Conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. The conference featured several well known freelance authors and journalists, a television news anchor, independent video producers, podcasters, bloggers, and students and faculty from surrounding Christian colleges.
These are the only pictures that half turned out from this fun-filled event! I had boughten a cheep B&W throw-away-camera at a gas station on the way there, because I realized that I had forgotten our digital at home : (
I really enjoyed this conference and getting to meet so many new friends. It was also really cool hangin’ out with all the SQPN people! There were many non-SQPN speakers that were also excellent. Sherry Kennedy Brownrigg and Michael Kreidler were of my favorites. I also got to hang out with my cousin Ross, who is a graduate of Steubie U, and spent some time in Prayer & Adoration too!
Me & Fr. Roderick Vonhögen of SQPN.com
George Leite of the Catholic Rockers Podcast, Dr. Paul Camarata of The SaintCast, Myself of The Perseverance Podcast, and Fr. Bill Kessler of TechnoPriest.
Me with Jennifer & Greg Willits of the Rosary Army Podcast. If I would have known they were smiling so nicely, I wouldn’t have thrown two thumbs up (which were cropped out of the picture)! Hints why my smile is such a weird looking one : )
Some friends I met from Lancaster, PA!
I finally got around to posting some of the talks from this conference onto the world wide web. Here is the opening talk by Fr. Roderick. You can view this talk in its entirety here.
There used to be some of the other talks on uStream, however they have since been taken down, which is kind of sad. I did some searching on YouTube, but the only video that I was able to find was this video by Susan Bailey.
In a fairly recent article, written by William J. Doherty, Ph.D., he points out the importance of eating meals as a family. He says, “Research has continually confirmed that eating meals as a family affects nearly every area of a child’s life. Kids who eat regular family meals get better school grades, are better off psychologically, receive better nutrition, don’t smoke as much or do drugs, and are less sexually active as teens.” He goes on to say, “… it’s not only the quantity of family meals that contributes to their life satisfaction, but also the quality of meals. For years, experts on family meals have preached turning off the TV — but now texting, iPhones, and video game consoles also compete with family dinner.
Tom McGrath and Bret Nicholaus have teamed up to improve our “quality of meals” with The Meal Box. The Meal Box contains 54 cards, each one featuring a creative question guaranteed to spark fun family conversation during family meals. The questions, such as If you could have the voice of any famous person, whose voice would you have?, are sure to engage everyone in the family. The reverse side of each card features a quick “Food for Family Thought” tip from family expert Tom McGrath.
Today, you may have noticed that the leading, trending topic around lunchtime was “No God”. Apparently, Christians all over Twitter tried to get the trending topic to be “No God, no peace; know God, know peace.” Not a bad goal, except for the fact that Twitter only picked up “No God” and “Know Peace”.
But, I don’t think all has #failed. More and more people are talking about it now than had the plan worked as intended. It’s funny how God works. He can take something bad and turn it into something good.
Because we follow so many Christian artists, our Twitter stream is very wide and flows very rapidly—the chances of us seeing a general tweet from an individual band is slim-to-none. So, for the Christian band or musician who has some news that they would like for us to share with our readers, they can either “@” HolyRoadies or direct message us by putting “d HolyRoadies” in front of their tweet (we must be following you to receive a direct message).
In this YouTube Video, Eric Giler demos MIT’s breakthrough version of WiTricity. This was recorded back in July, at TED Global 2009, in Oxford, England.
Every three months, our local Knights of Columbus council would sponsor a speaker for our Defending Our Faith night. This one particular night I was pretty excited, because one of my all-time favorite Catholic speakers was coming to our Parish. I arrived early, only to find a table of youth group kids eating pizza. Now even though I was in my mid-twenties, I had the appearance of a youth group kid and was invited to join the pizza-eating festivities. Don’t mind if I do : )
In a fairly recent article, written by 
