by Brendan Busse, SJ | Feb 4, 2013 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
I don’t know you. But people have been talking about you. They say all kinds of things about who you are and why you do what you do. But I wonder what you think. I wonder if what you’ve been told about yourself is really true. I wonder all the time (here, here, here)...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Feb 2, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Jesuit Formation includes at least two graduate degrees. How do you put those to use during the the Super Bowl? With all the arguments and crazy banter in our newsroom this week, we decided to put a mic in front of a few TJP contributors who are big NFL fans....
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Patty Andrews 1918 to Wednesday Ms. Andrews was 14 when she began singing with her sisters. 21 years, 75 million records, one Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B later, she entered the pantheon of great American entertainers. My Norovirus 2013 to last Tuesday...
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...
