We are terribly proud of our team at TOBET: the brilliant writers, editors, and designers who have produced the full K through Grade 8 Theology of the Body curriculum, The Body Matters. Partial portfolio of The Body Matters After the painstaking (and sometimes painful) process of creating children’s books that are theologically correct (our books have the…
This post continues a series of adult reflections on the children’s books that comprise our Theology of the Body curriculum for children, called The Body Matters. In 2012, I walked the Camino de Santiago, an ancient 500-mile trek from the border of France, to the Cathedral of Saint James at the western end of the…
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 idea of limits posed some issues that we wanted to avoid in the…
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 for all of us. (Among our staff of five, there are six…
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 Monica Ashour is one of the few who could…
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 union of man and machine. Even the end of death itself. The once-immutable facts about what it…
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 Age of Profanity. I asked the resident millennial in…
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 Antonio triangle. The extended time led to some reflections about churches, and bodies. Designated…
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 altar, made a deep bow of homage to the…
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 behavior and encourage young people to make autonomous, free choices. It…
