A partial listing of sample articles found on the Envoy Magazine website*
Many Envoy articles that apperared from January 1999 issue to December 1999 may be found on the Missionaries of Faith's (www.e3mil.com) Apologetics page indexed by topic rather than issue.A Sola Scriptura Debate - Pat Madrid, editor of Envoy Magazine and Douglas Jones, editor of Credenda/Agenda Magazine
Demystifying
Jihad - Muslims and Jihad. What you should know
Islam:
A Religion of Peace - Analysis of Islam
Surrendering
the Holy Spirit - Conversion and the Holy Spirit
Catholics
'R Christian - Nuts and Bolts (Tim Staples) Mary,
the Church, and the Assumption
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy readers
(the "Q" source theory, Mustard seed, kneeling at Communion)
All
They Are Saying is Give War a Chance - Criteria for a Just War
Trials
and Temptation - God and trials in the life of humanity
The
Dramatic Rise of Lay Movements in the Twentieth Century
Confessions
of a Reluctant Apologist - How an Mennonite was brought to the Church
The
Mother of All Pills - A look at the abortion pill, RU-486
All
Scripture - (Tim Staples) Predestination and free will discussion
Bible
Basics - Bible Study Blueprint on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians
Family
Matters - the Sacrament of Confirmation
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy readers
(Wives and Submission, Gestures in Mass, Jehovah's Witnesses)
LaHaying
the Rapture on Thick - A look at the "Left Behind" series and the
"Rapture"
Taking
a Tour of the House of God - A guided tour of a Catholic Church building
Harry
Potter: Agent of Conversion - A child's fantasy book or introduction into
the occult?
Can
We Talk? - (Mary Beth Bonacci) "Useless Suffering"
- Learning the art of "offering it up"
Bible
Basics - Bible Study Blueprint on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
In
the Lions Den - Nuts and Bolts (Tim Staples )- Sola Scriptura analyzed
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy readers
(Masons, Animals and souls, Jesus' knowledge of His divinity)
Theology
of the Magic Eye - Magic Eye art and a Catholic analogy
Looking
for Martyrs at St. Edmund's College - The need of the ability to feel deeply
and powerfully what the martyrs felt
Reformed
Thinking - Nuts and Bolts (Tim Staples) - Reformed theology analyzed -
priests vs. presbyters, prayers to saints, Reconciliation, the Sacrifice of the
Mass
Power
Tools - Evangelization and education tools
Bible
Basics - Bible Study blueprint of the the Second Letter of St. Paul to the
Corinthians
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy readers (Sola Scriptura, Shroud of
Turin, Great Divorce, Freemasonry)
Can
We Talk? - (Mary Beth Bonacci) Courage and homosexuality
Airplane
Apologetics - Coffee, Tea, or Truth?
Out
of the Anglican Storm - Conversion story of an Anglican priest
Family
Matters - The Rules War. How to fight fair with your spouse
Bible
Basics - Bible Study blueprint of the First Letter of St. Paul to the
Corinthians
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy Readers (No Hassle Sacraments?, The
Eucharist, Labyrinths, Pornography)
What
Would You Do? - Envoy Readers respond to an apologetics situation - Bible
study and anti-Catholicism
Soul
Food To Go - Pray always. The importance of prayer
November/December 2000 - Volume 4.6
My Journey out of the Lefebvre Schism
- All Tradition leads to Rome
The
Apologetics Zone - Books to help you explain Catholic beliefs from
Scripture and history
What
Would You Do? - Envoy readers respond to the question about celebration of
Christian feasts.
Soul
Food to Go - Preaching without preaching, putting joy into evangelization
Gray
Matters - What’s the connection between Mary and moral theology?
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy Readers (Can Sainthood be rescinded?,
Mortal and venial sins, Abortion and confession)
Bible
Basics - Bible study blueprint for St. Paul's epistle to the Romans
September/October 2000 - Volume 4.5
The
New Gnostic Gospel - A look into the imagery from the movie "The
Matrix".
The
Pain of Grace - A conversion story from Judaism and explaining redemptive
suffering.
Saints
Alive! - Nuts and Bolts (Tim Staples) - Encore article about praying to and
honoring the Heavenly Saints.
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy readers (Adultery, death penalty,
Archbishop Stepinac, Donating bodies to science)
Can
We Talk? - A True Catholic Feminist. Mary Beth
Bonacci discusses the woman's place in the Church.
Soul
Food to Go - Are you singing? The power of joyful evangelists.
Bible
Basics - Bible study blueprint for the book of Acts.
July/August 2000 - Volume 4.4
Does it Count? - The Sunday Mass
obligation
I Wasn't Looking For It When I Found It
- The conversion story to Catholicism by Protestant missionaries to
Guatemala
Soul Food - The importance of
making a Holy Hour
Power Tools - Resources for
dealing with non-Catholic missionaries who come to your door
I Have a Question - Questions from
Envoy readers (Poem of the Man-God, the Resurrection of the Body, Limbo)
Are You Playing For Keeps? - Gray
Matters, Unchanging Truths and the Gospel
Friends
in the Field- Featuring NFP
Outreach, Thomas Aquinas College, and TiberRiver.com
May/June
2000 - Volume 4.3
The Ouija Board: A Game, or a gamble?
- A Harmless Game or Not?
You'll Never Walk Alone
- All About Angels
Mary Worshippers Need Not Apply
- Nuts and Bolts (Tim Staples) - Marian devotion explained
I Have a Question -
Questions from Envoy readers (God and jokes, Liturgists, Women and Satan, World
Without End?)
Marie Bellet -
Catholic singer, wife, and mother of eight
Bible Basics -
Bible study blueprint to the Gospel of Mark
Power
Tools - Resources for the Christian life
March/April 2000 - Volume 4.2
Live
Long and Prosper - and Other Tall Tales from the
Health & Wealth Gospel
Carolyn in the City
- Conversion story, The True Story of a Good Girl Who Went Through Bad
Times
Bible Basics -
Bible study blueprint to the Gospel of St. Matthew
Gray Matters -
Laying down the natural law
I Have a Question -
Questions from Envoy readers (Annulments, Teaching Apologetics, Real Presence/
Sacramental Presence of Christ in the Eucharist)
Going the Distance
- Editor's comments about forgiveness and life's problems
Family Matters
- Distraction at Mass and Parental Love
January/February 2000
- Volume 4.1
Is This God? - A historical and biblical look at the Eucharist
"X" Marks the Spot - One Generation's quest for truth
Jesus in My Life - How Jesus works in the lives of people just like you
Rocking the Catholic Cradle - "Universal Church" means "everybody"
I Have a Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine Readers (Numbering of the Ten Commandments, A Course in Miracles, the book "Joshua)
Bible Basics - Understanding the Gospel of John
What Would You Do? - Expressing Concern for a Homosexual's Soul - Envoy readers respond to the question
May/June 1999 - Volume 3.3
The
Wanderer Comes Home - The "reversion" story of rock star Dion
DiMucci
Out
of the Sandbox Into Apologetics -
Backyard apologetics and how one family is teaching their children
The
Gift That Keeps on Giving - Opening Scripture to discover Tradition. (Mark
Shea)
Faith,
Work, and Doughnuts - Nuts and Bolts (Tim Staples) - Discussion on faith,
works, and justification
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (The Resurrection,
Jehovah Witnesses, Priests and Father)
Bible
Basics - The Overture of John - Tuning up the Gospel
What
Would You Do? - Envoy readers give their thoughts on expressing concern for
a homosexual's soul
March/April 1999 - Volume 3.2
November/December 1998
- Volume 2.6
September/October
1998 - Volume 2.5 July/August
1998 - Volume 2.4 May/June 1998
- Volume 2.3 March/April 1998
- Volume 2.2 November
1997/February 1998 - Volume 1.6, 2.1 September/October
1997 - Volume 1.5 July/August 1997
- Volume 1.4 May/June 1997
- Volume 1.3 March/April 1997
- Volume 1.2 January/February 1997
- Volume 1.1 Premier Issue:
November/December 1996 - Premier Issue *The Catholicsource website is not associated with Envoy Magazine.Looking
for God in All the Wrong Places - Like KOLOB - A look into Mormon doctrines
by Brian Paul
A
Woman of Letters - An ex-Seventh-Day Adventist gives her conversion story
Torah!
Torah! Torah! - A tour of the Torah, shows how good works can and can't help
your salvation
Faith
of Our Fathers - Got a question about the
Faith? Go ask your Fathers. "Unanimous consent of the fathers"
explained
I
Have A Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine Readers (the movie
"Elizabeth", Peter and Rome, Canonizations)
Bible
Basics - Organizing a bible study group for yourself and your parish
Sites
Worth Seeing - Three Catholic websites What Will You Do When the Chips Are Down? - Y2K and the Millenium bug
Call to Faction - A report on the dissendent group, Call to Action
Coffee Talk - Sharing your faith with women, thirteen tips for evangelizing
Grand slamming the Great Apostacy - Nuts and Bolts (Tim Staples) - Having a ball with Mormon elders
Jesus in My Life - Father Frank Pavone tells how Jesus knocked on the door of his heart
I Have a Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (the other Catholic Church?, Suicide and Hell, teaching teens)
Bible Basics - Your bible study blueprint - Great new tools
Can
Outsiders Be Insiders? - A look at the doctrine "No Salvation Outside The Church
Smashing
Pumpkins - The Real Background of Halloween
Little
Lost Lambeth - Contraception and the Anglican Conference of 1930
More
Vicarius Thrills - 666 and the number of the Beast
Pastor
Bob Preaches From the Word - Your bible study blueprint - Baptism and Salvation
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers
Sites
worth seeing - Three Catholic websites"Ancient
Baptists" and Other Myths - A look at the Council of Nicaea and patristics
Holy Osmosis!
- A conversion story by Sara McLaughlin
A
Pro-Abortion Icon Comes to Life - The story of Norma McCorvey's (Roe vs Wade)
conversion
Chicken
Soup for the Evangelical Soul - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) -
Mary is the "Mother of God"
The Full
But Neglected Knapsack - Your bible study blueprint - Being prepared for our journey
I
Have a Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (10 Commandments, Nuns, Rosary)
Conscience
and Authority - How to be free - submit to authorityToo Many
People? - The myth of overpopulation
Divine Will
Hunting - A look at the "Divine Will Movement and Luisa Piccareta's writings
Tell Him it's
God Calling - Story of how Brother Stephan answered God's calling
From Utah with
Love - A conversion story - From Mormon to Catholic
I Have a
Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine
readers (tongues, Jesus' awareness, kneeling)
Happy Male
Parents Day - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - Calling men father
Where's the
*#&@!% Hammer? - Your bible study blueprint - What tools do you need?Pope
Fiction - Debunking the five most common myths about the Pope
Once,
Twice, Three Times a Catholic - A conversion/reversion story by Lynn Nordhagen
Bam! Bam!
The "Pebbles" argument goes down - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - Peter
the Rock
I Have a
Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (Novus Ordo, Baptism, Medjugorje)
Can We Talk?
- The Most powerful evangelization weapon - The Holy Spirit
Out of
Africa - In the heart of Africa, a missionary lives in the heart of Jesus
Sites worth
seeing - Three Catholic websitesThree
Views of the Future - The future of the Church by Michael O'Brien
Everyone
Knows it's Wendy - Sister Wendy, Art, and Evangelism
In
Search of the Full Gospel - A conversion story - the discovery of the "full
gospel" church
I Confess
- Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - Explaining the biblical teaching on confession
I Have
a Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (Jesus and sin, Byzantine Mass,
Aliens)
Peter
has Spoken - The fathers on the infallibility of the Bishop of Rome
Come on a
guilt trip with us - Do you have a guilty conscience? What's the right amount of
guilt?You Can
Trust Me, I'm a Psychic - Psychics, horoscopes, and Catholics
Wiccan
Work it Out - A look at the Occult, Wicca, Magick, and paganism
It's Good to
have Friends in High Places - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - The Bible and prayers
to Saints
There's Gold
in them thar Hills! - The geography of the Holy Land by Jeff Cavins
I Have a
Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (children and Mass, Jesus'
divinity, immorality)
Suffer the Little
Children to Come Unto Me - Teaching children to behave at Mass - how and when?
Sites worth
seeing - Three Catholic websitesHow to
Become a Jehovah's Witness - A former JW explains how you are targeted in JW
door-to-door evangelization
All
Information Highways Leads to Rome - A conversion story - how the internet
"highway" brought Diane Kamer home
Go Ask
Your Father - How the ancient Christian Church always cited the authority of the
Church Fathers
A Discussion
That Bore Good Fruit - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - The biblical reasons statues
and icons are A-OK in God's book
I Have a
Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (Doctors of the Church, television,
Infant Jesus of Prague, mystics, cloning)
Friends
in the Field - Three Catholic apostolates - Heritage of the Apostles, Catholics United
for the Faith, Women for Faith and Family
Sites worth
seeing - Three Catholic websitesBaby Talk
- Common sense responses to arguments people give for killing unborn children
Catholic is
Not Enough - Thomas Howard explains what kinds of "Catholic" you shouldn't
be
He's an
Only Child - Mary's perpetual virginity - the bogus Greek argument and the word
"until"
Scripture IS
Tradition - Jeff Cavin's looks at what "Tradition" is and what the Bible
teaches
Baptism Now
Saves You - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - What the Bible teaches about being
"born again"
How I Would Maximize
Vocations to the Priesthood - Douglas Bushman, S.T.L. explains how he would solve the
vocation crisis
Personal
Picks - Three book reviews - Crossing the Tiber, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self
Defense, On Being CatholicA Kosher Ham
Find Christ - A conversion story - From Judaism to Catholicism
Apes
"R" Not Us - Catholics and the debate over evolution
Five Myths
about Seven Books - Answers to five common arguments against the deuterocanonical
books
My Flesh is
Real Food - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - How to explain the Real Presence of
Christ in the Eucharist
The Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass - The early Church Fathers explain the biblical basis for this
historic Christian teaching
The Inspiration
of Scripture - What Did St. Paul mean when he called Scripture
"God-breathed"?
I Have a
Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (Faith alone and Marian doctrines,
cremation, penance, persecuting Jews)Apologetics
Without Apology - What apologetics is and why apologetics is gaining a comeback
in Catholicism
Satan's Battle
Plan for the Third Millenium - Peter Kreeft tells us about Satan's battle plan
The Mouse that
Roars - A look at apologetics on the internet
The Big
Picture - Jeff Cavins explains how to step back and see Scripture's single basic theme
I Have a
Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (Limbo, Marriage, Mary and
the serpent, homosexuality, relics)
Finders
Keepers - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - The Evangelical notion that Christians
can't lose their salvation in unbiblical
Purgatory
- The early Church fathers explain the biblical basis for this historic Christian teachingYou'd Better
Not Pout - Do troubles and troublemakers in the Church get you down? A defender of the
faith explains why you shouldn't
Apocalypse Again
- The millennial year 2000 and Christ's second coming
How I Solved the
Catholic Problem - A conversion story - How a Protestant missionary to Catholics came
to the Catholic Church
The Knot That
Can't Be Tied - A leading moral theologian explains the natural law argument for
heterosexual-only marriages
Baptism =
Born Again - The early Church Fathers knew how to be "born again" the bible
way
Jesus Christ
is not God - Nuts & Bolts (Tim Staples) - A step-by-step way to answer this
typical Jehovah's Witness argument
I Have a
Question - Questions from Envoy Magazine readers (Grace - strings attached?, Jesus'
knowledge, confession, beatification)