Handicapped? Wanting to do good works for others anyway?Too busy to add good works to your already cluttered life?What do you say when a friend’s relative dies?Wonder how to handle gossip, baby showers, mean bosses, etc. in the work place?Do the poor in other countries bother you?Want to teach your children to do good deeds? Every possible type of good work is included in this book, along with step-by-step methods. Something for everyone, whether you have 10 minutes a day or 1 hour a day available. Letter writing, benevolence, works for and by the handicapped, newcomers, military personnel, university students, works for Bible school class children to do, crafts, keeping your home, work place by employee and employer, church office, worldwide missionary work, works for seniors, assisted-living homes, nursing homes, loss of loved ones, telephoning, prayer warriors, prayer partners, home Bible studies, heavenly reward. For individual use, small and large congregations, small towns, big cities, old people, young people, active or paralyzed. There is something everyone can do. I Corinthians 9:23 ~ “I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some.”

"Applied Christianity" contains the conferences of a seven-day silent Ignatian retreat first given in the 1930's by Fr. Onesimus Lacouture, S.J. Castle of Grace is publishing the author's third and final edition. The author of this book, Father John J. Hugo, of Pittsburgh, made the retreat under Father Lacouture in 1938 and then went on to teach it regularly, mostly to the laity. The most famous promoter of the retreats was Dorothy Day, co-founder with Peter Maurin of "The Catholic Worker."Father Hugo said that the retreat offers the "complete panorama of the Christian life, in which the relation of the several parts to one another and to the whole is clearly visible." In 1968 Sister M. Angelica, a member of the Sisters of Charity of the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, diocese, wrote of this retreat and Father Hugo's books: "I will always hold this to be the only that work that gave me the full, consistent, integrated, uncompromising teaching on the spiritual life . . . so rooted in the scriptures and spiritual masters - such a work of wisdom. I defy anyone to do this in any other context or framework of the Christian life. Yet, she asked, "But who can take it in this cozy, comfortable age? Will 'Christians' ever be able to 'drink all this straight?' Maybe not till there is a great cosmic purge sent by God. Maybe not then." "Applied Christianity" is for those who seek such a guide for living the Christian life in all the fullness of God's truth.The companion books to the Lacouture/Hugo retreat are also available from Castle of Grace LLC. "You Are Gods!" contains the full conferences of Part One of "Applied Christianity." Fr. Hugo thought that this part needed to be presented in greater detail. "A Sign of Contradiction" contains a history of the retreat. "Nature and the Supernatural" contains Fr. Hugo's rebuttals of various critics who misunderstood the retreat. Each volume contains a foreword by Fr. Hugo's niece, Rosemary Hugo Fielding.

"Applied Christianity: Worldview Training for the 21st Century" Christian is a comprehensive summary of content and pedagogy of the class by the same name. Applied Christianity is meant to act as a quick and informative resource for the graduate, parent, or questioning skeptic.

Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.