by Lucas Sharma, SJ | Apr 20, 2015 | Justice, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Race and ethnicity slapped me in the face during the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. I arrived in Washington, DC’s Dulles Airport in August 2009 ready for JVC. New city, new people, new adventure. I felt a little nervous. Being from the Pacific Northwest, I immediately went...
by Damian Torres-Botello, SJ | Apr 17, 2015 | Justice, Sexuality, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
In a five-part series released the week of March 16th from the National Catholic Reporter, God’s Community in the Castro, a parishioner from San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer parish had this to say about his spiritual home: “We don’t see ourselves as a...
by Ken Homan, SJ | Apr 16, 2015 | In the News, Justice, Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
Perhaps you don’t remember it from President Obama’s State of the Union Address: at one point during the speech, the majority of the Republicans stood up and cheered while most Democrats sat and glared at both the president and their colleagues across the aisle. This...
by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ | Apr 14, 2015 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
When I walked through the door, Agape Latte was already in full swing. There’s something formulaic about each of these monthly events: a coffeehouse feel, live music as people gather, free caffeine and sugar, trivia, t-shirt giveaways and a brief talk by a faculty or...
by Dan Dixon, SJ | Apr 13, 2015 | Education ~ Approx. 7 mins
March 27th, 2015 was a typical Friday for Carlos Belmont. Dressed in a neatly pressed purple shirt and a black tie, he hustled across Harlem’s Lexington Avenue, hoping to catch the 9AM 6-train. Manhattan bound. He passed homeless men sleeping on benches, newspapers...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Apr 10, 2015 | In the News, Justice ~ Approx. 3 mins
View image | gettyimages.com How do we challenge the idea that some lives matter less than others? It’s a tough math problem…even worse than the common core…hard to imagine, I know. I hate math too. But these days the math concerning the value of...
by Nathaniel Romano, SJ | Apr 9, 2015 | In the News, Justice ~ Approx. 6 mins
Seinfeld, once the anchor of NBC’s “Must-See TV,” gave us many memorable characters, including the so-called “Soup Nazi.” A temperamental restaurateur sells soup that is praised wide and far. However, he is very particular about how his customers must behave. Only the...
by Jason Downer, SJ | Apr 9, 2015 | Education ~ Approx. 2 mins
Remember that time I gave some unsolicited advice about living on-campus? Well, as this academic year comes to a close, I’m back with some advice on wrapping things up. When my sisters graduated college back in the last century, 1999 to be exact, it was the first...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Apr 7, 2015 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
On the right side of her chest just below the clavicle, she has a 1” scar. 12 years ago, it was a freshly stitched incision and beneath it, bulging and unnatural, was a port with tubes twisting into the dark depths of her insides. She was diagnosed over Christmas...
by Andrés Arteaga | Apr 6, 2015 | Pop Culture ~ Approx. 2 mins
Walk into my room on a given morning and you will find me in black tights moving spasmodically, mixing ballet moves with angst. Changement, pas de bourree, fall, grab chest, now look up in rapture. What am I doing? To your surprise, I’m actually praying. But this...
