Reu’s Classic Work on Catechetics Added to Documents Library at LutheranCatechism.com

We have added Reu, M., Catechetics or Theory and Practise of Religious Instruction (Chicago: Wartburg Publishing House, 1918) to the Documents Library. Paul I. Johnston, said of this book: One of the great educational classics of early twentieth-century American Lutheranism was Johann Michael Reu’s Catechetics, or Theory and Practice of Religious Instruction. By the time … Read more

Memorizing the Catechism: False Dichotomy between Words and Meaning or, How to Forget the Faith

When I was a child, we already had the Small Catechism memorized before we entered confirmation instruction. We recited portions in Sunday School from about the third or fourth grade onward. We recited all portions in Vacation Bible School year after year. By the time we entered confirmation instruction, we had recited it at church … Read more

Do You Want Wonder at Christmas? Read this Book !!

It’s embarrassing, an embarrassment of riches. My parents had a book of Dennis the Menace single-frame comics. One showed Dennis awash in a sea of Christmas presents he’d ripped open. Standing by were his Mom and Dad, each with one small gift that you know they gave each other, being unnoticed by anyone else. Sitting … Read more

Help Drive Down this Fake #1 Ranking

Publishing is an interesting activity. Apparently, one of the publishing industry’s techniques is to try to hype something into reality. Take as an example what distributors do with my slim little book, Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper. Smashwords released this as an eBook on January 14, 2014. As the Smashwords Style Guide says, that led … Read more

Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper — Editions and Distributors

Description |  Contents | eBook Editions |  PDF Edition |  Paperback Edition | About the Author Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper is available in a variety of electronic editions at prices from free to $0.99, and in paperback for $3.59 with free shipping. Description Evangelism springs from Luther’s Small Catechism into the newspaper. This book shares from the … Read more

Amazon Now Distributing Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper

Amazon is now distributing the new eBook, Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper, by T. R. Halvorson. You can find it here. This brings the number of distributors to eight. The first seven were: Barnes and Noble iTunes Scribd Kobo Smashwords Shakespir Gardner Books A PDF version is available for free download at LutheranCatechism.com. All versions … Read more

Six More Distributors for Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspapers

Six more book distributors are distributing the new, free eBook, Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper, by T. R. Halvorson. The new distributors are: Barnes and Noble iTunes Scribd Kobo Shakespir Gardner Books The book is published through Smashwords and is available there in several formats. The PDF version is available for free download at LutheranCatechism.com. … Read more

Released Today — Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper

01–14–2017 — LutheranCatechism announces the release today of the new, free eBook, Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper, by T. R. Halvorson. The book is published through Smashwords and is available there in the following formats: epub (industry standard) .mobi (Kindle) html (online reading) lrf (older Sony readers) pdb (older Palm devices) txt (without formatting) The … Read more

Pre-publication Announcement — Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper

This is a pre-publication announcement of the forthcoming book, Catechetical Evangelism in the Newspaper, by T. R. Halvorson. This book is about evangelism that springs from Luther’s Small Catechism. It is about adapting catechetical evangelism to presentation in newspapers. The first part of the book briefly shows that Luther’s Small Catechism is suited to evangelism. … Read more