When you consider a new recipe, you look at the picture of the finished dish. When you plan a vacation, you look at the photos of the hotel rooms before you book. When you interview for a new job, you meet your prospective co-workers, and ask yourself, “Would I fit into this place?” We need…
We are at war. You are at war. The war is inside our hearts. The cover of our book, The Body and the Heart If you are the sort of Catholic who subscribes to this blog, you already know this. But many don’t. And strangely, it is important that we tell them, especially the young people. They…
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 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…
