How to Defend the Faith Without Raising Your Voice: Civil Responses to Catholic Hot-Button Issues

✍ Scribed by Austen Ivereigh

• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor<nobr class="greyText">(first published January 1st 2012)</nobr>
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Edition: Paperback
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is about winning friends, not arguments. It is about shedding light, not heat. It's about reframing the argument so hearts can be opened and minds can be inspired. How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice is a new sort of apologetics. It is for those moments when you are thrust into the spotlight as the token Catholic whether the spotlight is simply at the office water cooler or whether it is front and center at the in-laws Thanksgiving celebration. How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice gives Catholics a fresh way of explaining the Church's teaching on contentious issues humanly, compellingly, and succinctly.

But this book does not pretend to suggest it is as simple as memorizing a speech. Every conversation is different. Every day's news cycle will bring new arguments and new challenges. Instead, it is a book about what the issues really are and where the criticisms are coming from so you can understand and communicate effectively.