Unshakeable: Building a Life of Virtue in a World of Chaos
By Fr. Mike Schmitz
The key to transforming your life is within your reach.
In a world filled with noise, confusion, and constant change, it's easy to feel overwhelmed or off balance. But what if the answer to lasting peace, purpose, and joy is in the virtues you practice every day?
In Unshakeable: Building a Life of Virtue in a World of Chaos, Fr. Mike Schmitz—beloved host of The Bible in a Year and The Catechism in a Year podcasts—reveals how cultivating virtue can help you become the joyful and peaceful person God made you to be.
With his signature clarity, compassion, and honesty, Fr. Mike takes readers on a journey through 15 essential virtues that have the power to help Catholics deepen their faith and anchor their lives in Christ.
One and the Ninety-Nine
By Luke Burgis
It’s not hard to find your tribe. The real challenge today is not losing yourself within one.
We are surrounded by tribes: political, professional, online, ideological. Each offer belonging at a price. Join, and you risk dissolving into a ready-made identity. Refuse, and you risk drifting into isolation. Either way, the modern person is pulled toward the same end: forming a fragmented self that is easier to manage, easier to sell to, and easier to recruit.
In The One and the Ninety-Nine, bestselling author Luke Burgis argues that the great crisis of our time is not simply polarization or loneliness, but a crisis of formation: it’s difficult to form an identity that is solid enough to withstand the pressure of the crowd, and modern institutions don’t reward the effort. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and personal experience, Burgis shows how groups shape our desires, how “social contagion” spreads through families and institutions, and why the hunger to belong can turn ordinary people into instruments of movements they barely understand.
This book is about the missing skill that makes real community possible: learning how to remain oneself while staying connected to others. Burgis offers a practical map for recognizing false belonging, escaping coercive dynamics, and passing through the rites of passage that produce people with integrity and courage.
The One and the Ninety-Nine is a timely and inspiring wake-up call, an invitation to reject counterfeit community and develop depth of personality—to become someone who can stand alone—so that we can finally stand together.
