TOBET Blogs
What’s Good About Limits?
This post continues a series of adult reflections on our children’s curriculum, The Body Matters. One of our most thought-provoking books is “The Body is God’s Design” for third graders. It was originally called “The Body is Limited for Love” but the...
Friendships and the Body
This post begins a series of adult reflections on TOBET’s The Body Matters children’s theology of the body curriculum. Our staff was already educated in theology of the body and Catholic studies when we began, but writing these books has been a discovery...
Doing What We Were Designed To Do
TOBET has done many things in our 17-year life, but there is one thing we are uniquely qualified to do: teach children the theology of the body. To interpret and re-express very sophisticated ideas in simple ways takes a special gift. I venture to say that...
“Future Human”? Please, No
This blurb came into my mailbox recently, from a blog called “Future Human”: “The life-changing forces of technology and globalization are re-inventing what it means to be human. Three-person babies. Extreme biohacking. Outposts on Mars. Sex robots. The...
Pulling Back the Veil between Time and Eternity
The Veil was pulled back. The Paschal Mystery was consummated. Our Risen Lord “apokalypsed” (revealed) Eternity encompassing time for His disciples: “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is...
Age of Profanity?
Profanity on primetime TV increased 69% from 2005 to 2010. And that’s just the major networks, never mind cable. I would have to assume that, by 2018, they’ve given up counting. So it’s not just my advancing age or sensitivity. We really are living in an...
Painted Churches, and the Body
Last week, I toured the “Painted Churches” of south Texas for a solid week. A pilgrimage route called “El Camino de Lavaca” has been established that includes most of the Catholic churches (painted or not) in four counties located in the Austin/Houston/San...
To Whom Do You Bow?
Our TOBET staff just came home from a presentation to school teachers in a vibrant, faithful Catholic diocese. They were very impressed with the reverent behavior of those who received the Eucharist at Mass. They were even more impressed with those who went up to the...
Content by Consent?
Dayspring Brock is our newest TOBET blogger! Today she blogs about a hot topic on college campuses and in the public square, the idea of consent in sexual ethics. Most sex education programs approach sexual ethics like this: the goal is to reduce risky...
The Tempest and Hope
No one would argue, it’s been the season for natural disasters. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Katia struck like balls in a batting cage, wham, wham, wham. In the middle of that ferocious fortnight, Mexico suffered a gigantic earthquake. (For perspective,...