Study Materials
The Hidden Canon
Fourteen books. Fourteen rooms in the house of God that most people walk past. In the neglected corners of the Catholic canon — the minor prophets nobody preaches, the seven books the Reformation removed — we find some of the most honest, most demanding, and most practically useful writing in all of Scripture. This is sixteen weeks in the Bible's most overlooked books.
Session 0
Introduction — Why These Books?
Session 1
Obadiah — The Shortest Voice, The Loudest Warning
Session 2
Nahum — The Comfort of God's Justice
Session 3
Habakkuk — When God's Silence Feels Like Absence
Session 4
Zephaniah — The Day No One Talks About
Session 5
Haggai — Building What Actually Matters
Session 6
Joel — The Prophet of Pentecost
Session 7
Lamentations — The Prayer the Church Forgot How to Pray
Session 8
Tobit — Marriage, Angels, and the Providence You Can't See
Session 9
Judith — The Woman Who Saved Israel (and What She Tells Us About Mary)
Session 10
Baruch — Exile, Repentance, and the Long Way Home
Session 11
Sirach — The Wisdom Your Father Should Have Taught You
Session 12
Wisdom — The Book That Shaped the Nicene Creed
Session 13
1 Maccabees — When Faithfulness Costs Everything
Session 14
2 Maccabees — The Dead Are Not Gone
Session 15
Why These Books Were Preserved — Providence and the Canon
Session 16
What the Hidden Canon Teaches Us to Be