Brendan was born and raised in southern California. His love of narrative and social justice led him to pursue degrees in English (BA) and Theology (MA) at Loyola Marymount University. Before joining the Jesuits he taught high school and served as a Jesuit Volunteer in Belize for two years where he supervised the religious education programs of 29 village schools in the Maya Mountains. He returned to LMU as the director of Community Service and Social Justice. Brendan is currently completing an MA in Social Philosophy in Chicago. For the record, he hasn't shaved his face in its entirety since October of 1994. The precision of this date is due to the fact that facial hair was a “Senior Privilege” at his high school; welcoming the privilege, he has never looked back.
We confuse ourselves into thinking that we make the world go ‘round, and in this confusion we run ourselves into the ground while life springs forth without our doing anything at all. It just happens.
“There is nothing we can do but love” said Dorothy Day. Brendan Busse couldn’t agree more, because it’s only in love – in embracing our fundamental amateurism – that we can do the same.
Brendan Busse finds asking those who still practice religion why others have quit the game a… curious approach. He asks: why not go to the source itself?
“In the end, I suppose thinking of God as a DJ isn’t the worst metaphor out there. Imagine him bent over a mixing board holding one headphone to his eternal ear, taking the tracks of history and mixing them up…”
“We don’t listen enough. We tweet. We post. We like. We share. We recommend. We promote. We rave. We rant. …Connected we may be, but attentive we are not. This is not good.”
