Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Motivating Your Parish to Change
Dave Heney · 1998
70/100
👍 Worth It
Father Heney's combination of pastoral experience and a USC counseling degree makes this a genuinely useful resource for a very specific reader — the priest or lay leader staring down a community resistant to change. That audience is narrow but real, and there are few Catholic books that take this problem this seriously. Outside parish leadership circles the utility drops sharply.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
📚 Buy the book ↗📱 Read on Kindle ↗🎧 Listen on Audible ↗ affiliate links · support the site, never the verdict
As an Amazon Associate and Audible affiliate, Penny earns from qualifying purchases. This never affects the verdict — see our affiliate disclosure.
Show the math
Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance75
craft65
originality72
accuracy75
hype60
age-fit80
human-eye68
Penny’s verdict70
Cross-pollinate