Author: Joe Hoover, SJ
Joe is a Jesuit brother studying at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA. He recently finished an assignment teaching and working in campus ministry at Red Cloud High School in Pine Ridge, SD. His writing has appeared in The Sun, Agni, and other publications
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You Will Become Catholic
What might life be like for one convert to Catholicism? Not every convert, just one. Joe Hoover imagines how such a simple, irreducible journey might unfold in the life of one man.
Love in Camouflage
A college basketball game, to have been played on Veterans Day 2012 between Marquette and Ohio State, was cancelled. Alarmist pacifist idealist critic Joe Hoover asks uncomfortable questions never the less.
Worth Reading: Daniel Day-Lewis on Playing Lincoln
Despite our desire to understand how great acting happens, Joe Hoover commends Daniel Day-Lewis for his silence.
Real Talk at ESPN
A spontaneous, intelligent conversation about scripture and the mechanics of spirituality at 8:17AM on ESPN? Joe Hoover revels in this bright little gem.
Dark Night of the Yankees
Memories of 2001 (9/11, playoff baseball on the radio, life as an organizer) lead Joe Hoover to wonder if our world possesses any proper order.
Briggs (Part 2)
“Here’s the thing, you tell me what didn’t all come down to feeling good, and I will give you” – Briggs waved his hand. …I could almost see it.
Briggs (Part 1)
Briggs, in his own off-handed way, would take us all down with him. “The purpose of life,” I stared at him coldly, “is not to feel good”…
Flaw
“The flaws, the sins, the marks missed.” With Spy Wednesday pulling Lent to a close, Joe Hoover asks us for a few moments to consider, with him, the flaw.
Occupy My Heart
“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.
Yoga vs. Church
Joe Hoover ruminates on reverence, silence and ritual as they play out at daily Mass and in his Bikram Yoga studio.
