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Author

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    My New Book

    I wrote Ascend as a new way to understand Christianity. Contemporary. Visual. Readable.

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    What's In It

    The Backstory is a sidebar feature in each chapter of Ascend that explores a central concept related to the chapter.

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    Readable

    Each short chapter of Ascend includes sidebars such as a profile of a role model related to the chapter topic.

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    Visual

    Ascend includes more than 100 images, many of them iconic images that tell a dramatic story.

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    Buy It

    Ascend is published by Paulist Press and is available at bookstores and online retailers nationwide.

Ascend: The Catholic Faith for a New Generation is a new way of exploring the basics of Christianity. Contemporary, visual and readable, it is a full-color, magazine-style overview of the Faith developed with young adults in mind. It takes its inspiration from the way we use information today: matrixed rather than linear, visual rather than textual, engaging rather than academic.

Ascend is not the first thing I have written. My essay on Our Lady of Guadalupe was included in the anthology Contemporary Catholics on Traditional Devotions, edited by James Martin, S.J., and published by Loyola Press. I have also been a frequent contributor to America and Commonweal, two of the most prominent national Catholic magazines. Some of the articles I wrote for America have even been cover features.