catechize

“We have to catechize our people to understand that the resurrection is the center of a Christian worldview,” he said.

When people have not been catechized into a particular theology of political engagement, there’s a real opportunity for teaching in the principles of the faith in this arena of life.

Ignoring this threat, Pan — a sybaritic aesthete by his very nature — gently catechizes about hedonism like some goat-footed Oscar Wilde.

While they ate, they catechized her on her opinions, and were delighted to find that she believed in God and expected to vote Conservative when she was twenty-one.

Fletcher, however, still found means to catechize the children and to hold meetings in private.