Dave Armstrong is a Catholic author and apologist, who has been actively proclaiming and defending Christianity since 1981, and Catholicism in particular, since 1991 (full-time since December 2001). Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Servant of God Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J.
Dave’s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, He is a featured columnist for National Catholic Register and was an editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave’s apologetics apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of Envoy Magazine. He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010.
Dave enjoys the editorial freedom he finds at Patheos.
“Having been significantly censored on Facebook at times prevented from writing certain supposedly ‘controversial’ things in Catholic media, I have all the more respect and admiration for the true free speech and editorial control that we enjoy at Patheos,” said Armstrong. “I allow those who disagree with me to have their say in my hundreds of posted back-and-forth dialogues, so I am glad that I myself am free to express my own opinions at Patheos. Secondly, I like the fact that Patheos is such a large and well-known venue and the potential readership that derives from that. All writers want as much exposure as they can get, and Patheos offers us a lot of that.”
Dave offers up this advice for future Patheos writers:
“Follow your passion or, as musicians say, ‘follow your muse.’ This is the ‘secret’ of what people describe (and sometimes even mock!) as my ‘voluminous’ output. I have the luxury, as a full-time writer, to be able to devote myself to whatever most interests me at any given time. That guarantees that my motivation will remain high, which in turn produces, I think, more committed — and hopefully interesting — writing. I suppose this may be common sense and self-evident, but nevertheless, I think it’s supremely important and a key to literary success.”
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