Latest Books
Margarita Mooney Clayton
When Mary Calls
Through seven compelling personal stories, this book reveals Mary’s maternal protection at work and explores how she binds believers to authentic faith communities.
David Clayton
The Vision for You
We have a choice in life. We can choose to be happy or to be miserable. The goal is to be happy and to become, more and more, the people we were meant to be. The Vision for You is the name of a process by which we, who have been through it, discovered our true calling in life – what we call our ‘personal vocation.’
Other Books
The Love of Learning
Seven dialogues with noted educators on traditional education. This book is an open invitation to a lively conversation on the nature and practice of the liberal arts. Artfully facilitated by Margarita A. Mooney and inspired by the personal and practical experiences of its interlocutors, the book explores the key figures and ideas that have lent shape and substance to the liberal arts tradition.
The Wounds of Beauty
Seven dialogues with established artists and educators, including Peter Brown, James Matthew Wilson, and David Clayton, on the place of art and beauty in education. The good and the true are often discussed in the context of education, but beauty is often forgotten or misunderstood. This book redresses the balance by stressing the place of both the appreciation and the creation of beauty in education.
The Little Oratory
Building your own little oratory is simple, and in these pages you’ll discover just how easy it is. To help you live the liturgical life of the Church more fully, David and Leila reclaim here an almost lost tradition that families used for centuries to build a bridge between home and church: the little oratory. It includes beautiful reproductions of David’s icons that can be removed and placed into your own icon corner.
Veiling to Reveal
In his writing on the human person and art, Pope John Paul II renewed interest in the nude in sacred art, calling artists to represent the human form “naked without shame.” While some have interpreted this as a new Catholic permissiveness, David Clayton argues that John Paul II actually reaffirms the Church’s traditional approach, contrary to the assertions of many contemporary commentators.
The Way of Beauty
There is no human activity, no matter how mundane, that cannot be enhanced by this formation in beauty. The Way of Beauty will deeply interest artists, architects, and composers, in addition to educators who can apply its principles in forming and teaching students of all ages — at home or in schools.
