What is joytob?
baby“The family: This is the place where the Theology of the Body and the Theology of Love are interwoven.”Pope Benedict XVI, May 13, 2011
joytob is the new teaching ministry of Damon Owens dedicated to proclaiming the joy of being made in the image and likeness of God, male and female. Drawing on over twenty years of lectures, motivational speaking, writing, and TV/radio presentations, Damon joyfully acclaims the goodness, truth, and beauty of human sexuality and its deepest meaning fulfilled by men and women who freely choose motherhood and fatherhood through marriage or celibacy for the sake of Heaven.
Using St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and seminal documents on marriage and the family including Family in the Modern World (Familiaris Consortio), Letter to Families, Love is our Mission: The Family Fully Alive, and Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia), we proclaim the joy of marriage and family, encouraging and educating with the best of theology, Sacred Scripture, philosophy, biology, and psychology. Engaging people wherever they are in their faith journey, joytob leads with the joy, wonder and awe of God’s amazing gifts of love, grace, and mercy offered to us.
joytob is formed to uniquely assist in that mission to transform the world with education, encouragement and evangelization through various media and technologies. Passionate yet propositional, the ministry reflects the naturalness and ease of Damon’s Catholic faith with his sense of urgency to tend to the wounded in our culture with the medicine of the Gospel.
joytob addresses the most important issues, concerns and crises in our hearts with the rich wisdom of the Catholic Faith, in particular, the truth of the human person synthesized in Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. With passion, wit, humor, and courage, Damon leads this search for goodness, beauty, and truth wherever they lead.
joytob answers the call of the New Evangelization for new ardor, methods, and zeal to make Jesus Christ known to the world through speaking events, articles, books, blogs, online channels, and audio and video productions. Firmly rooted both in the culture and in the Catholic faith, joytob not only bridges the cultural divide, but promotes authentic dialogue grounded by the Gospel values of mercy, compassion, goodness, beauty, and truth. Jesus Christ continues to invite his people to receive the fullness of God’s love and joy, and His Church continually renews her mission to be the place of that encounter today.
Primary means of developing the new platform will be nationwide talks (Men’s Conferences, Women’s Conferences, Diocesan Conferences, parishes, marriage and family apostolates, etc.), CD’s, online videos, social media commentary, radio and television appearances, and outreach to Church leadership and apostolates offering consulting on implementing Amoris Laetitia in marriage ministry.