by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
Editor’s note: Welcome to round two of Celebrity vs. Saint! You can catch up on our last edition over here. Send any Celebrity vs. Saint breakdowns you want done to Jeff at [email protected] or fill up the comments below. *** Say what? Mmmmmhmmm,...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
In the past few weeks NPR has aired several interviews with people exploring a dynamic shift in the American religious landscape. Perhaps it’s a sensitivity born of the recent debates about their own threatened funding and government support (sorry Big Bird) but the...
by Jim McDermott, SJ | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
Two weeks ago FOX concluded its five-year run of its twisty scifi show FRINGE. For the uninitiated, FRINGE focused on an FBI agent, Olivia Dunham, tasked with investigating fringe science phenomenon. Like LOST, it had a bigger picture mythology, too, about the damage...
by Paul Lickteig, SJ | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
What we are looking at is a map made up of single dots representing every man, woman and child listed on the two most recent North American censuses: My cousin said she thought it was a photo-negative of North America taken from space at night. I thought it looked...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Jan 28, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
The Jesuits have a long history with the visual arts, both as patrons and practitioners. Take, for example, Brother Andrea Pozzo, S.J., an Italian Baroque painter and a master of trompe l’oeil, creating the appearance of domes in churches that had no money to build...
by Mario Powell, SJ | Jan 28, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
On Wednesday, November 7, 2012, the lead article in The New York Times crowed: “Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Jan 24, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
In “Singing to Jesus with Eyes Closed,” a ‘confession’ published recently over at Killing the Buddha, author and UC Berkeley professor Kaya Oakes offers a personal, meditative piece on her own struggles with being a public witness of faith. Faith is shame. It’s the...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Jan 23, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
Editor’s Note: Now that TJP assistant editor Tim O’Brien has picked himself up off the floor, he’s ready for Part 2 of our interview with the (still anonymous) creator of the hugely popular tumblr, ‘Mary is My Homegirl‘ (MIMHG). And if you missed Part 1…...
by Eric Ramirez, SJ | Jan 23, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
The answer was a clear no. Responding to the “We the People” petition requesting the secession of Texas from the U.S. after President Obama won reelection, the White House explained that the goal of the Constitution was to create a better union and “not provide a...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jan 22, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
Condense the gospel reading into 140 characters? You must be mad! That’s probably true, but it’s never stopped us before. Everyday for the past month @TheJesuitPost has been spinning the daily gospel reading with #GospelTJP.1 #Gospel TJP is a new project with...
