by George Williams, SJ | Mar 11, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
Editor’s note: TJP published an exclusive excerpt from Jim’s new book, Jesus: A Pilgrimage. Long before he became the media’s go-to person for All Things Catholic, long before he began convincing the media that words “Catholic” and “fun” could exist in the same...
by James Martin, SJ | Mar 11, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
This post is an exclusive excerpt from the new book Jesus: A Pilgrimage, by James Martin, SJ. Published with permission of HarperOne. To purchase print, audio and e-book versions visit HarperOne Here’s a story spanning several decades. It shows why it sometimes takes...
by Chris Schroeder, SJ | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
I am the kind of guy who looks skinny. When I run into people after not seeing them for a few months, they always ask if I’ve lost weight. The answer is always, “No. You just forgot how skinny I look.” I pull off this optical illusion through no virtue of my own,...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
This post is an excerpt from the new The Jesuit Post book, available on Kindle and in paperback. The book features 20 new essays from writers for The Jesuit Post, as well as reprinting a few of the best essays from our first two years online. For more information,...
by David Romero, SJ | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
To the joy of some – and the annoyance of others – we’ve been experiencing greater activity in our winter this year. We experienced some snowfall in New York the last two years I have been here, but not a great amount by any means. Now in my last year at...
by Eric Ramirez, SJ | Mar 6, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
A feast day for C.S. Lewis? A feast day for Imagination? Recently, Andrew Starton of Wheeling Jesuit University published an article praising C.S. Lewis as the patron of imagination. He lauds Lewis’ use of imagination as the pathway to “invit[ing] us into...
by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ | Mar 6, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
Originalmente en Inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrasco García-Moreno Capaz, calificado, competente, apta, con talento, versado, dotada, experimentado, hábil: nunca uso la aplicación de diccionario de sinónimos del celular tanto como en esta época del año. Es la...
by Nathaniel Romano, SJ | Mar 5, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Spring is still a few weeks away, but a spring-cleaning of sorts is percolating through the criminal justice system. Astute observers may recall that last summer, Attorney General Eric Holder began the process of review and reform for criminal sentences at the...
by The Jesuit Post | Mar 5, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
By now, your feeds are likely clogged with the BuzzFeed quiz that will tell you what to give up for lent… and what city you should live in and your Saved by the Bell character and your Hogwarts House. But just in case you’re sick of being a Hufflepuff alum living in...
by Danny Gustafson, SJ | Mar 3, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
I know that St. Valentine’s Day is over at this point, but I’d like to start this piece off with a few declarations of love. I love literature and some poetry. I love the teachers who have helped me to be more imaginative, to find what really captures my heart, to...
