by Lucas Sharma, SJ | Mar 2, 2017 | Film, In the News ~ Approx. 3 mins
When Moonlight won Best Picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards, it was an upset: La La Land was predicted to sweep the night away – including a win for Best Picture – and for a split second, America thought it did. Now, I think Moonlight was the Best Picture this...
by Damian Torres-Botello, SJ | Mar 1, 2017 | Blogs, Faith & Family, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
It’s Lent. Again. And again I think about what it is I’ll give up. My Lenten sacrifices are almost always connected to food. At 288 pounds, it’s safe to say I’m an eater. In fact, as I’m writing this I’m eating a cheese, mayo, and Doritos on rye. And I’m having a...
by Brendan Gottschall, SJ | Feb 28, 2017 | In the News, Justice, Spirituality ~ Approx. 2min
There is a lot of bad news going around these days. From trucks driving into parades to beheadings of kidnapping victims, one’s stomach can be easily turned at the sheer badness of things. Yet in the midst of all this evil, something particularly heinous caught my eye...
by Lucas Sharma, SJ | Feb 27, 2017 | Art, Film, Justice, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 3 mins
Embed from Getty Images I loved La La Land. Yet among other better-written and more powerful films like Manchester by the Sea, Hidden Figures, and Moonlight, I never for one thought it deserved to win the Academy Award for Best Picture this year. Still, I...
by Colten Biro | Feb 22, 2017 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
It’s hard not to notice the theme of the other in recent news: executive orders, refugees and migrants, protests, racial tension within our country, and the countless occurrences of violence. Even if it doesn’t paint an overt struggle, it creates a separation between...
by Bill McCormick, SJ | Feb 21, 2017 | In the News, Interview, Justice ~ Approx. 5 mins
TJP sat down with Laura Field and Austin Hart, founders of Real News Revival, to learn about how they are working to promote good journalism despite the proliferation of “fake news,” and how they “trust that even a small effort will make a...
by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Feb 20, 2017 | Faith & Politics ~ Approx. 5 mins
Do I love Trump? As we celebrate Presidents’ Day, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about our new President, and this is a question I am honestly struggling with. Do I love him? What does it mean for me to love him? Surely I am called to love him, just as I...
by The Jesuit Post | Feb 17, 2017 | Science & Technology, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
It’s been a thirty-minute grading break, and here I am now: furious, sad, exhausted, confused, and deeply torn… I felt obliged to read the comments on an article about the attempt to sell off federal lands. But, it left me wondering… Why do I hesitate to read comments...
by David Inczauskis, SJ | Feb 16, 2017 | Justice, Music, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 3 mins
Embed from Getty Images Not too long ago I found myself at dinner with three young Frenchmen. Being myself, I asked them, “Do you listen to any American pop music?” They looked at each other, laughed, and replied simultaneously in a suave French accent, “Katy Perry.”...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Feb 15, 2017 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
It’s easy to think of love on Valentine’s Day. It is, after all, a day we dedicate entirely to the saccharine, stuffed teddy bears gripping stuffed hearts, heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, and in Chicago, heart-shaped deep dish pizza. There are, for one day, endless...
