Professor Ann Garrido shares conscientious media use tips

Catholics are called to live out their faith online.

Do you behave online in a way consistent with your Catholic faith?

This is the question that professor of homiletics Ann Garrido wants us to ask ourselves. In fact, she believes that our behavior on social media is such a vital part of how we live out our faith that she wrote a book on the topic: #Rules_of_Engagement (Ave Maria Press). In her book, Garrido outlines eight habits—ranging from understanding bias to privileging face-to-face encounters—to help readers live out the gospel within the digital world.

Garrido says she wrote the book because of her commitment to communication and truth in our faith. “I’m a teacher of homiletics, which means I love communication,” she says. “I also teach at a Dominican school, and the core of the Dominican charism is veritas, or truth. When I think about where a lot of communication is happening for people in the pews, or where the hottest conversations about truth are happening, it’s on social media.”

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