2015 RECongress Closed Workshops

1-01	YES	I Am Over Facebook! Exploring Other Social Media Sites to Help Parish Leaders Remain Relevant	Clarissa Valbuena Aljentera
1-02	YES	In the Footsteps of Mary	Mary Amore
1-06	YES	Proud to Be Catholic: An Evangelization Essential -	Carole Eipers
1-07	YES	Are You Living a Spiritual Life?	Fr. Robert Fabing
1-08	YES	A Catholic Imagination: Imagine That!	Anne Frawley-Mangan
1-12	YES	Seeing Jesus: The Master Catechist	Bill Huebsch
1-13	YES	The Four Questions	Matthew Kelly
1-20	YES	Avoiding “Snapchat” Relationships in Ministry: Going Beyond Facebook and Twitter	Bob Perron
1-21	YES	Old Wine, New Skins: Teaching an Ever Ancient Faith to an Ever New Generation	Katie Prejean
1-24	YES	"See, I Am Doing Something New" (Isaiah 43:19): Contemporary Music of Faith for Young Children	James Wahl & Andrew Chinn
1-51	YES	Ignora el miedo pero no lo que lo causa – ¿Cómo hablarles de Dios a tus hijos?	Katherine Angulo
1-52	YES	Vivir en el Misterio: La experiencia de Dios y Biblia en la catequesis	Rev. Juan Luis Calderón
1-54	YES	Cómo educar la conciencia	Rev. José-Román Flecha
2-01	YES	In Endless Song	Tony Alonso
2-02	YES	Rhythm, Prayer, Move	Lisa Bagladi & Pedro Rubalcava
2-03	YES	Dancing with the Saints	Betsey Beckman & Laura Ash
2-05	YES	Transforming Confirmation	Dr. Michael Carotta
2-06	YES	Let's Take a Walk Together – Through Catholic Mass	Rev. John C. Cusick
2-08	YES	When We Say We Are Afraid of Dying, of What Are We Afraid? A Christian Understanding of Life and Death	Fr. Richard Fragomeni
2-09	YES	Leadership and Social Justice: How Catholic Schools Can Change Our World	Dan Friedt
2-14	YES	What Do You See in the Mirror?	Fr. Joseph Kempf
2-15	YES	Christian Simplicity: A Gospel Value	Kyle Kramer
2-16	YES	From the Gallery to the Classroom: The Use of Art in Religious Education	Lir Mac Cárthaigh
2-17	YES	Stop Doing Marriage Preparation, Start Forming Married Disciples	Diana Macalintal
2-20	YES	Who is Jesus?	Rev. James Martin
2-25	YES	Restless Hearts: Writing the Spiritual Journey	Rev. Thomas Scirghi
2-51	YES	La vivencia de la fe a través de la música	Santiago Fernandez
2-52	YES	La Formación Religiosa de Adultos en "Evangelii Gaudium"	Rev. Allan Deck
2-54	YES	RICA: Iniciación en la fe y renovación de la Iglesia	Rev. Pedro López
3-02	YES	A Prophet for All Seasons: The Biography of Isaiah	Alice Camille
3-03	YES	St. Ignatius’ Rules for Discernment of Spirits in Light of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart	Rev. Christopher Collins
3-04	YES	Disciple-building Youth Ministry	Tom East
3-05	YES	Some Say Learning Can’t Be Fun … Wanna Bet?	Steven Ellair
3-07	YES	Catholic Ethics Concerning Acceptance of Gay and Lesbian Persons	Arthur Fitzmaurice
3-08	YES	The Slave Across the Street: Human Trafficking of American Teens	Theresa Flores
3-09	YES	“ ‘Come and SEE,’ ” said Jesus – Celebrating Prayer Rituals with Children	Sr. Paule Freeburg & Christopher Walker
3-11	YES	No Exemptions: Servant Leadership	Dr. Greer Gordon
3-12	YES	Feeding the Hungers: The Hopes for Youth Catechesis and Theology	Dr. Thomas H. Groome
3-14	YES	Behold-ing the Mystery: Helping Young Catholics Appreciate the Mass	Mark Hart
3-15	YES	"Hey, I Know! Let's Have a Women's Retreat!" (and Other Crazy Things We Say)	Sarah Hart
3-16	YES	A New Way to Be Church: Rethinking Parish Life from the Outside In	Jack Jezreel
3-17	YES	Eternal is His Love	Liam Lawton
3-18	YES	Communicating our Faith: The Intersection of Faith and Media in the 21st Century	Rev. Matthew Malone
3-20	YES	Create a Family Culture of Spirituality	Dr. Patricia McCormack
3-24	YES	Pope Francis: A Two-Year Evaluation	Fr. Thomas Reese
3-26	YES	Happiness, Suffering and the Love of God	Rev. Robert Spitzer
3-27	YES	Teaching Children with Autism in a Typical Classroom – Best Practice Methods and Strategies to Consider	Deacon Lawrence Sutton
3-51	YES	Líderes excelentes, parroquias excelentes	Alejandro Aguilera-Titus
3-53	YES	Ritos familiares preparatorios a la primera comunión	Rev. Benjamín Bravo Perez
3-57	YES	Comunicándonos con lo sagrado: 10 ideas creativas usando símbolos de la religión popular para la catequesis	Victor Valenzuela
3-58	YES	Preparen los caminos al Señor	Ernesto Vega
4-01	YES	The Write Way! Using Creative Writing as a Way to Access Prayer and Spirituality	Clarissa Valbuena Aljentera
4-02	YES	Women in the Old Testament: Then and Now	Sr. Dianne Bergant
4-04	YES	At The Heart of Christian Ethics: Pope Francis and the Tenderness of God	Dr. Roberto Dell'Oro
4-05	YES	Seven Questions About the Sacraments That You Were Always Afraid to Ask	Fr. Richard Fragomeni
4-08	YES	Laughing Matters: Reclaiming and Sharing Our Catholic Joy	Mark Hart
4-10	YES	Incarnation Anyway: The Christology of St. Francis and Thomas Merton	Fr. Daniel Horan
4-11	YES	See Anew: The Joy of Just Living	Bill Huebsch
4-13	YES	Um, God, Where the Heck Are You?	Fr. Joseph Kempf
4-18	YES	Youth at Risk: Responding to Crisis	Robert McCarty
4-19	YES	Is There An App for That? Best Practices for Integrating Social Media and Digital Technologies into Faith Formation	Charlotte McCorquodale
4-23	YES	Stories of Spiritual Wisdom	John Shea
4-25	YES	The Five Things Every Parent Needs From the Church	Michael Theisen
4-52	YES	Sacramentos como puertas a lo sagrado y como ritos de pasaje	Rev. Eduardo Fernandez
4-54	YES	María de Galilea, Maria de Latinoamérica	Dr. Timothy Matovina
4-57	YES	Conocer a Jesús para ser eficaces en el liderazgo parroquial	Juan Pablo Saju
5-04	YES	Singing the Song Without the Words: Hope, Humility and Ministry to Folks on the Margins	Rev. Gregory Boyle
5-08	YES	Teaching for Discipleship: The Call, the Challenge, the Difference	Dr. Michael Carotta
5-09	YES	Young Adult Ministry, Step by Step	Dr. Katherine DeVries
5-12	YES	New Testament Eucharistic Practice: An Unexplored Resource	Rev. Edward Foley
5-16	YES	Making Disciples … Breaking the Glass Ceiling	Rev. John Hurley
5-17	YES	More Mothers, Mystics, Martyrs and Models of Faith	ValLimar Jansen & Sarah Hart
5-25	YES	Welcoming Children with Autism to the Church: A Universal Call to – Meaningfully – Include All of God’s Children	Deacon Lawrence Sutton
5-26	YES	Get Your Game On! Engaging Young People in Their Own Learning Process	Michael Theisen
5-27	YES	Islamic and Christian Studies	Jihad Turk & Rt. Rev. Alexei Smith
5-52	YES	Temas y ritos de paso, o sea, de Pascua en la formación religiosa	Rev. Benjamín Bravo Perez
5-54	YES	Puntos centrales de la educación sexual en la catequesis	Rudolf Finke
5-55	YES	Los sacramentos: Renovación de nuestra vida espiritual	Rafael Moreno
5-56	YES	El rol profético de los jóvenes como factor de cambio	Sr. Xiskya Valladares Paguago
5-57	YES	¡Retiros que inspiran! Una estrategia pastoral de preparación para los sacramentos de la reconciliación y Eucaristía	Douglas Zuniga
6-03	YES	Purification and Enlightenment: Shaping Lent for Those in the RCIA Process	Mary Birmingham
6-04	YES	Seeing In the Dark	Sr. Kathleen Bryant
6-06	YES	Come and See, Come and Sing, Come and Pray!	Andrew Chinn
6-11	YES	Teachers, Transformation and Technology: How Teachers Help Student Leaders Change the World	Dan Friedt
6-12	YES	The Rage Against God: The Arrogance and Hostility of the New Atheists	Darrell Hall
6-15	YES	Mary of Galilee, Mary Model of Faith	Dr. Timothy Matovina
6-16	YES	Seeing the Gift of Body: Jesus and the Good Use of Sexuality	Terry Nelson-Johnson
6-51	YES	Cómo transmitir a los niños el gusto por la Palabra de Dios	Luis Benavides
6-54	YES	La Eucaristía: Misterio de amor infinito	Fr. Mariano de Blas Saéz, LC
7-02	YES	Many Paths, One Lord, One Family of Faith	Fr. Christopher & Joseph Bazyouros
7-06	YES	Awesome Prayer Experiences with Adolescents	Steven Ellair
7-08	YES	The Early Church’s Practice of Eucharist: A Provocative Treasure	Rev. Edward Foley
7-10	YES	The Faith of Ruth, Esther and Judith: Hidden Gems of the Bible and Pope Francis	Fr. Garrett Galvin
7-13	YES	The Psalms and the Catechesis of the Heart	Bob Hurd
7-16	YES	Multicultural Church: Many and One	Jesse Manibusan
7-18	YES	Pope Francis and the Joy of the Good News	Bro. Michael O'Neill McGrath & John Angotti
7-51	YES	Cómo preparar un encuentro de catequesis o pastoral de manera atractiva para los niños y jóvenes de hoy	Luis Benavides
7-52	YES	Al centro de la ética cristiana: Papa Francisco y la ternura de Dios	Dr. Roberto Dell'Oro
8-01	YES	Sojourn to a Joyful Heart	Mary Amore
8-02	YES	Formation of RCIA Catechists	Mary Birmingham
8-06	YES	Living the Eucharist in Daily Life	Rev. Christopher Collins
8-08	YES	Missionary Discipleship	Fr. Anthony J. Gittins
8-12	YES	Jesuit Mysticism, Pope Francis and Compassion	Rev. Michael Kennedy
8-14	YES	Bearing Gifts Among Us: International Ministers and Parish Life Today	Rev. Ricky Manalo
8-15	YES	Super Songs of Superheroes	Michael Mangan
8-16	YES	Balancing Marriage and Ministry: The Great Dance!	Robert McCarty & Maggie McCarty
8-17	YES	Engaging EVERY Learner EVERY Time: A Simple Format for Planning Engaging Faith Formation	Charlotte McCorquodale
8-18	YES	A Call to "a Church That is Poor": Re-imagining Youth Ministry through Pope Francis	Ted Miles & Ben Walther
8-19	YES	Evangelizing Families Today: Engaging Parents as Partners in Faith Formation	Thomas Quinlan
8-21	YES	Mary and Jesus in the Islam and the Qur’an	Jihad Turk
8-22	YES	Renewing Young Adult Catholic Imagination	Matthew Weber
8-51	YES	Actitudes positivas en la vida	Fr. Mariano de Blas Saéz
8-52	YES	La tentación	Hna. Glenda Valeska Hernandez
8-53	YES	Convivencia en la parroquia multicultural	Brett Hoover
8-55	YES	La sabiduría de nuestras abuelas: Celebrando los rituales en nuestras familias	Dr. Verónica Rayas
8-56	YES	La misión instrumento esencial del líder parroquial	Juan Pablo Saju
8-58	YES	Ver y proclamar	Fr. Richard Vega

	2015 RECongress Closed Workshops Religious Education Congress March 13-15, 2015

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2015 RECongress Closed Workshops

Religious Education Congress March 13-15, 2015

Religious Education Congress
March 13-15, 2015