by Brian Konzman, SJ | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
AMC’s The Walking Dead is perhaps the best television on air today. Now, some of the high and toity might make the case for Downton Abbey, and admittedly my hometown’s penchant for bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica might make one suspicious of my judgment, but...
by Nathaniel Romano, SJ | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
Perhaps the most terrifying part of doing legal work is how banal it can seem. This thought struck me as I sat in a nondescript chair at a nondescript desk in a nondescript cubicle behind an unremarkable office façade and listened to a heart wrenching story. Across...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
About a month ago, in the hubbub surrounding the release of “Lincoln”, Charles McGrath of the New York Times wrote about an actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, and his embodiment of our 16th president. He said: Mr. Day-Lewis, who has a deep voice and a British...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Dave Brubeck 1920 to Wednesday Brubeck always dreamed of being a rancher. Instead he gave birth to the “West Coast Cool sound that characterised American jazz throughout the 1950s and ’60s.” A convert to Roman Catholicism, Brubeck composed a mass entitled To...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
In church time, we may have just started Advent. But in cultural time? We’re already a month and change into Christmas. All the symptoms are present, garlands wrapped on lampposts, lights strung on houses, Santa at the Mall, Red Cups at Starbucks. Oh, and the other...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Dec 5, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
We don’t listen enough. We tweet. We post. We like. We share. We recommend. We promote. We rave. We rant. O’ how we rant! Sometimes we’ll watch and occasionally we’ll even read, but usually we’re reading only as an excuse to react. We’re often just watching as a...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | Dec 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
We at The Jesuit Post fancy ourselves culturally sensitive, globally aware, and down-right pop-culture savvy. And yet we have neglected to even mention – let alone report on! – one of the most newsworthy events of November…or should I say “Movember”? For the...
by Paddy Gilger, SJ | Dec 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
Advent’s always a bit of a schizophrenic season for me. The dark and quiet and calm that come with shorter days mixes mostly chaotically with the frenzy of end-of-semester papers and Christmas shopping. The thing is, when I stop and take a breath, when I take a...
by Quentin Dupont, SJ | Dec 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 9 mins
As I listened to the radio early this November I heard the story of a man in New Jersey whose house was flooded after the ravages of Hurricane Sandy. The man was asked about his insurance policy. He said he had a hard time getting insurance, because he lives in an...
by The Jesuit Post | Dec 2, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1min
This Week in Review is a bit smaller than last week’s gargantuan update, but we’ve still got big news. As Advent kicks off, we’re beginning to celebrate the season with an ongoing Christmas playlist of both sacred and secular music. Each day from now...
