An ESPN-free Lent? Say what? Although his editors (and perhaps all the sane amongst the human race) doubt him. Michael Rossmann has laid down the gauntlet. His rationale can be read right here.

*Sigh* Why is it so hard to a find good Christian poem these days? Thank God we’ve got our own King-of-Snark (and first-rate T.S. Eliot scholar) Prof. Jayme Stayer on hand to respond to such questions.

Our Jim Keane argues persuasively that all Jim Keanes are ne’er-do-wells. How does our forgiving God feel about this?

Why is Jim Martin’s childlike joy over Downton Abbey’s return tinged with just a scoche of guilt? Read on at your own risk.

Still wiping television makeup off his face, Jim Martin joins us at TJP to share his top five pieces of Jesuit wisdom.

Having just awoken from what must have been a buffalo-wing and guacamole induced trance, staff writer Peter Folan asks of this year’s Super Bowl, “Wait, were those highlights from the last one?”

“Love demands a decision” writes Joe Hoover. He gets us there by cutting us with both of love’s sharp edges: the particular and the general, the individual and the universal, the romantic and the occupy.

Paul Lickteig answers the question every lo-fi rock fan asked when they first heard Neutral Milk Hotel sing: “I love you, Jesus Christ”, namely, WTF?

Jesuit nurse Jason Brauninger on the need for prayer in such traumatic places as a hospital emergency room.

Who is Doctor Who? Regular essayist John Shea shares his experience of being a long-term fan of the longest running sci-fi drama on television.