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GIVEAWAY: “Does God Exist?” by Matt Fradd and Robert Delfino
This week I am giving away 10 copies of Matt Fradd and Robert Delfino’s book, Does God Exist? A Socratic Dialogue on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas from En Route Books and Media. Learn more and enter below!
ABOUT THE BOOK
If you want an easy and fun way to understand St. Thomas Aquinas’s five arguments for the existence of God, this book is for you. Written as dialogue between Lucy and AJ in a coffee shop, these arguments are presented by Fradd and Delfino in every day language, with helpful examples and analogies, and by raising and answering objections along the way. Additional resources at the end of the book will deepen your understanding of the material, help you to grow in wisdom, and strengthen your faith.
GIVEAWAY: One Beautiful Dream by Jennifer Fulwiler
This week I am giving away 3 copies of Jen Fulwiler’s book, One Beautiful Dream from Zondervan Press. Learn more and enter below!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Pursue your passions, love your family, and say goodbye to guilt—pipe dream or possibility?
Work and family, individuality and motherhood, the creative life and family life—women are told constantly that they can’t have it all. One Beautiful Dream is the deeply personal, often humorous tale of what happened when one woman dared to believe that you can have it all—if you’re willing to reimagine what having it all looks like.
Jennifer Fulwiler is the last person you might expect to be the mother of six young children. First of all, she’s an introvert only child, self-described workaholic, and former atheist who never intended to have a family. Oh, and Jennifer has a blood-clotting disorder exacerbated by pregnancy that has threatened her life on more than one occasion.
One Beautiful Dream is the story of what happens when one woman embarks on the wild experiment of chasing her dreams with multiple kids in diapers. It’s the tale of learning that opening your life to others means that everything will get noisy and chaotic, but that it is in this mess that you’ll find real joy.
Jennifer’s quest takes her in search of wisdom from a cast of colorful characters, including her Ivy-League-educated husband, her Texan mother-in-law who crushes wasps with her fist while arguing with wrong number calls about politics, and a best friend who’s never afraid to tell it like it is. Through it all, Jennifer moves toward the realization that the life you need is not the life you would have originally chosen for yourself. And maybe, just maybe, it’s better that way.
Hilarious, highly relatable, and brutally honest, Jennifer’s story will spark clarity and comfort to your own tug-of-war between all that is good and beautiful about family life and the incredible sacrifice it entails. Parenthood, personal ambitions, family planning, and faith—it’s complicated. Let this book be your invitation to the unexpected, yet beautiful dream of saying yes to them all, with God’s help.
GIVEAWAY: Forty Reasons Why I Am a Catholic by Dr. Peter Kreeft
This week I am giving away 3 copies of Dr. Peter Kreeft’s book, Forty Reasons Why I Am a Catholic from Sophia Institute Press. Learn more and enter below!
ABOUT THE BOOK
My title explains itself.
But it’s misleading.
There are more than 40 reasons.
In fact, there are at least ten to the 82nd power, which, I am told, is the number of atoms in the universe. And that’s just in ordinary matter, which makes up only 4.9% of the universe, the rest being dark matter and dark energy.
Each of my reasons is an independent point, so I have not organized this book by a succession of chapters or headings. After all, most readers only remember a few big ideas or separate points after reading a book. (I’ve never heard anyone say “Oh, that was a good continuous-process-of-logically-ordered-argumentation” but I’ve often heard people say, “Oh, that was a good point.”
Which takes me back to my main point: “Why are you a Catholic?” is a good question.
A good question deserves a good answer.
Here are forty of mine.
-Sophia Institute Press
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GIVEAWAY: “The Power of Silence” by Cardinal Sarah
WAYS TO ENTER
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More about this prize:
In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before.
Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart?
After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. ”Silence is more important than any other human work,” he says, ”for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service.”
Contest ends on, April 20th, 2018. I’ll announce the winners then!
Good luck!
Your Phone is “Precious” and You are Sméagol
You are Sméagol.
One of the greatest characters to ever grace the pages of fiction was not a character at all- it was a ring, an inanimate object that tempts all who know of its existence to partake in its unrelenting and evil power. The creator of this ring was J.R.R. Tolkien and in his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, this ring holds a special power over those who have worn it, a power forged by evil in order to be reclaimed by evil unless someone is able to bear the weight of its dark burden and willfully destroy it in the very fires in which it was forged upon Mount Doom.
Sméagol, one of the characters who bore the ring over the course of hundreds of years, was one of the first to discover it. While in possession of the ring, Sméagol becomes a wretch of his true self. His mind became bent on maintaining his secret love affair with the evil ring that he nicknamed his “precious”. The ring’s power has a hold of him to the point that he prefers darkness instead of light, lies instead of truth, and hate instead of love.
As a result, he forgets who he was. After several years, he can barely remember his own name, or even his own identity. He becomes known as Gollum, an onomatopoetic name describing his grotesque coughing and wheezing he develops from living a wretched life amid the lifeless rocks of cavernous mountains, hidden away from the world in order to become one with his “precious.”
This character with two names is both a protagonist and an antagonist throughout the classic trilogy. At times, Sméagol is loyal, patient, even noble in his pursuit to help the main character, Frodo, achieve the goal of destroying a ring. In his heart, Sméagol knows that in order for true peace to reign in himself and in the world, his beloved “precious” must be sacrificed. He holds on to his former self in a glint of hope that stirs within him.
Sadly his dual personality overcomes him on many occasions. As Gollum, he is treacherous, unrelenting, and vile in his efforts to regain the ring so that it can once and for all take full possession of his soul.
The two identities trapped in one character battle one another for control over the half man, half beast, and in the end, Sméagol becomes something that he is not. He becomes the darkest version of himself. He becomes Gollum.
When we let technology take control, we endanger our total being and we become a lesser version of what we are and, worse yet, what we were meant to become.
Today, I released a book I wrote on how to overcome technology addiction.
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Image credit: Hunt, Tara, “Gollum” via flikr CC- https://flic.kr/p/GuXrs
