{"id":5082,"date":"2005-07-20T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/testimonials.html"},"modified":"2005-07-20T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T15:50:21","slug":"testimonials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/testimonials.html","title":{"rendered":"Testimonials!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, one at least:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span>I recently purchased both books. <\/span><span><em>How to Get the Most Out of the Eucharist <\/em>was obtained to review it for addition to our parish library. I haven&#8217;t been able to give up my copy, either to share or place on the library table. I had mistakenly thought it might be helpful to those &quot;other people&quot; who need &quot;books like that&quot;!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>Then I picked up <em>Here. Now. <\/em>for grad gifts. One has been given, and I&#8217;ve been browsing through the second copy before I send it off with daughter #2 when she starts at Univ. of Dayton next month. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Again, I was surprised to find out how much I don&#8217;t know. In the case of Amy&#8217;s book, my clumsy attempts in facilitating a confirmation small group will most surely be improved through the reading. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Thank you both for providing resources for personal reflection and discussion. It&#8217;s helpful to have refreshing ways to think about important matters of faith and devotion. And I can always use more help with clarity. \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/michaeldubruiel.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/30-day-appeal-getting-most-out-of-your.html\">Help us give a little lesson in Internet marketing to&#8230;ahem&#8230;well, to who ever wants to listen. <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, one at least: I recently purchased both books. How to Get the Most Out of the Eucharist was obtained to review it for addition to our parish library. I haven&#8217;t been able to give up my copy, either to share or place on the library table. I had mistakenly thought it might be helpful&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Testimonials! - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/testimonials.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Testimonials! - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, one at least: I recently purchased both books. 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The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. 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