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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Last night, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kyle Heimann of Popple for my songwriting podcast, For the Sake of the Song. Popple are getting quite well known around the Catholic podosphere for their quirky, funny nerdy songs about life and faith. Kyle and I also talked about the importance of the season of [...]
Day 2 of 40 Days of Catholic Media- Holy Cards For Your Inspiration
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Today’s Catholic media highlight is actually a very OLD form of media. Holy Cards For Your Inspiration
is a blog showcasing a different Holy Card every day. These cards serve as a wonderful history lesson into a very old artistic tradition, and they also serve their original purpose of inspiring people to [...]
40 Days of Reflection and Catholic Media
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Today is Ash Wednesday. We begin our 40 days in the desert leading up to the death and resurrection of our Lord. As part of my Lenten reflections, I’m going to try to prepare 40 short posts or media clips highlighting Catholic media and find some ways to enrich my spiritual life [...]
Hooray– Early Spring
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Yesterday was Groundhog Day. It is the only Groundhog Day on a Saturday until 2013, so my family and I drove about 160 km, 4 hours through a blizzard to see Wiarton Willie make his prediction that there will be an early spring. The drive home was much better and faster, but there [...]
Merry Christmas Everyone
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.– Luke 2:19
Since becoming a father, I have developed an increased appreciation of the glorious and ordinary mystery of the Holy Family. I’ve also been blessed to see the liturgy and the meaning of Christmas through new eyes– my daughter’s. Yesterday, during Christmas [...]
For the Sake of The Song: December Songs of Faith
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Over at my other blog and podcast For the Sake of the Song, I’m dedicating my podcasts during the month of December to interviews with Catholic and other Christian songwriters. As a songwriter, I identify as a folk and children’s entertainer who is Catholic, but I deeply admire songwriters who can [...]
Things that Make Me Go Hmmm…
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I started this blog because I was fascinated by the growing Catholic podcasting and blogging community and I wanted to be a part of it and investigate how social media is being used to nourish and strengthen a worldwide Catholic community. Early on I realized that social networks, “Internet Community” and internet [...]
40
Saturday, November 17th, 2007It rained on Noah for 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days when he received the 10 commandments
Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days
The Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years
40 years was considered a generation in the bible
Lent is 40 days
Jesus spent 40 hours in the [...]
Report from the Fishbowl
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007I greatly enjoy swimming around in the New Media Fishbowl and have begun to make acquaintance of some wonderful people all over the world who have podcasts of their own. Recently I have been mentioned or been a guest on a slew of Catholic podcasts, so I thought I would share the link love.
A couple [...]
I’m an Internet Visionary
Sunday, October 28th, 2007I am an Internet Visionary. Three weeks ago I posted LOLephants, with lolcat captions on pictures of me. It included this picture of me running? from a T-Rex.
This weekend at Podcamp Boston, a bunch of people had a crazy idea about LOLCats with dinosaurs. Before the end of the conference, Nico Pin had [...]
LOLephants
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Yesterday, our family went to the Toronto Zoo. It was over 30 degrees on the 8th of October. What’s up with that. I got quite shutterbuggy and took almost 300 pictures. On the way home, I got a great idea , LOLephants! I added LOL captions to some [...]
Tim Chesterton’s late night questions about the Internet
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Over at Tale Spin, Tim Chesterton has posted Tim’s late night questions about the Internet,
in which he poses a series of questions about the nature of community in general and Christian Community in particular on the Internet.
Some of his questions include:
Is it possible to find real community on the Internet?
Does real community not necessarily involve [...]
That Catholic Show #8
Monday, September 10th, 2007That Catholic Show #8 is up over at SQPN and I must confess, it’s a doozer. It is a really good introduction and overview of the sacrament of reconciliation. Greg, Jennifer and all of their production team are getting better with each episode. It’s an entertaining and informative way to teach basic [...]
Blog Day
Friday, August 31st, 2007Hip Hip Hooray, it’s Blog Day. Blog day is a chance for bloggers to introduce others to new blogs they may not have heard of . I am new to the Catholic blogosphere so my blog may be one of those to you. I am better known for my [...]
Apparently Holy water is a dangerous liquid.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Catholics have long known the power of holy water, but now we also know that it is unsafe to teke on airplanes. Warning– there may be too much irony in the article below for some people to bear.
This article from Reuters.com explains how security at Lourdes airport denied pilgrims from bringing holy water from [...]
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