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If you are a parent and you are trying to raise your kids Catholic you have undoubtedly heard one of them say: “Mass is boring.”  “Church is boring.” “The Catholic stuff is lame.” Have you ever heard that? I’m sure you have! I know I have. 

And a lot of times we blame the kids for this take - like they just need to mature and “see the light”, but is it really all their fault?  Or have we the teachers, preachers, and catechists failed to find creative and engaging ways to share the greatest story ever told?  I think that’s a big part of the equation.  The founder of Young Life, Jim Rayburn, an evangelical Protestant ministry to high school kids is quoted as saying:  "We believe it is sinful to bore kids with the gospel. Christ is the strongest, grandest, most attractive personality to ever grace the earth. But a careless messenger with the wrong method can reduce all this magnificence to the level of boredom …. It is a crime to bore anyone with the gospel."

Those are some powerful words to reflect on and while this particular quote didn’t come up in our conversation, my guest today, Edmund Mitchell is doing everything he can to share the truth of Catholicism with passion, joy, and  creativity.   

Edmund is a graduate of Franciscan University where he studied Theology & Catechetics. He’s the co-founder of Real+True, a project of Our Sunday Visitor, which creates videos, podcasts, and social media to unlock the catechism of the Catholic Church for the world. 

Check out Real+True right here: www.realtrue.org

Here’s the video Edmund referenced on the Resurrection, called: Why Catholics Believe in “life everlasting”

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