Bøger af Brandon Mcginley

This collection of testimonies by nine former atheists who found new life in the Catholic Church is one of the most helpful tools for cultivating the faith ever crafted! Here you'll meet: The atheistic Jew who sparked the conversion of a fellow atheist, and led him into the priesthood. The Nietzsche-loving bodybuilder whose atheism was upended by St. Thomas Aquinas. The hardened, anti-Catholic, neo-Nazi convict who shed his vices and became a celebrated Catholic author. The commune-dwelling hippie socialist who is now a happy Catholic husband and father. The once militant, gay atheist who is now "Christ's willing captive." And other prominent members of our Church who, in our generation, have escaped the swamp of atheistic relativism and embraced Holy Mother Church! Dramatic and thought-provoking, these intensely personal stories refute virtually every atheistic objection to God while explaining the arguments and events that eventually led them into the Catholic Church. Here you'll encounter proofs for the faith that will confirm your own faith and help you explain it to others, including to atheists. Read and learn: The irrefutable testimony of conscience. Proof that faith is not blind. The facts that baffle evolutionists. The overwhelming failures of materialism. Proof that the Church herself is a miracle. Why consideration of the Big Bang leads to the conversion of so many souls. How both Mary and the male priesthood are not arguments against the Church, but evidence of her holiness. How in all critical areas, the Catholic position is logical, historical, and definitive. Plus scores of other arguments to pry even stubborn souls away from their atheism and show them the beauty of our Faith. Along the way, you will come to learn about proven convert-makers

The future of humanity is urban.It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community that originated in a back-to-the-land movement and still has the whiff of hayfield and woodlot to it. Why not stick to what yoüre good at? Why jump lanes?Because the future of humanity, pretty clearly, is urban. Urbanization is arguably the biggest change of habitat our species has ever undergone. For anyone who cares about the common good of humanity, then, cities need to matter.The modern city is an electrifying concentration of creativity, energy, and cultural dynamism. It¿s also still the ¿cauldron of unholy loves¿ that Saint Augustine discovered in Carthage one and a half millennia ago. It¿s the place where the cruelties of mammon, the hubris of power, and the perversions of lust manifest themselves most crassly. But cities have also given birth to culture and community and to remarkable movements of revival and renewal.In this issue, visit:- Belfast with Jenny McCartney- New York City with James Macklin- Medellín with Adriano Cirino - Pittsburgh with Brandon McGinley- Guatemala City with José Corpas- Philadelphia with Clare Coffey- Chicago with John Thornton Jr. - Paris with Jason LandselYoüll also find:- Insights on cities from Jane Jacobs, Eberhard Arnold, Augustine, and Philip Britts- reviews of books by Jonathan Foiles, Bethany McKinney Fox, J. Malcolm Garcia, Tatiana Schlossberg, Tim Gautreaux, Philip Bess, and Frederic Morton- art by Gail Brodholt, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Ben Ibebe, Brian Peterson, Chota, Raphael, Gertrude Hermes, Valentino Belloni, Tony Taj, and Aristarkh LentulovPlough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus¿ message into practice and find common cause with others.