by Matt Spotts, SJ | Oct 16, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. The setting was simple enough. For three years now, I’ve been part of a Christian Life Community small group. Once a week, we gather in a sweltering room in the campus ministry building filled, improbably, with Native American...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
The other day, someone told me the cast of “The Princess Bride” just celebrated the classic comedy’s 25th anniversary. “Princess Bride”? Didn’t he mean “Princess Diaries”? I looked up the film, watched it, loved it, opened the “Princess Bride” 25th Anniversary...
by Michael Rossmann, SJ | Oct 15, 2012 | Global Catholicism, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Just off the airplane that had carried me to Dar es Salaam, I stepped into my new bedroom and immediately heard the Muslim call to prayer. “Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas anymore,” I thought. It was 4:00 in the morning, but that didn’t stop one of the nearby...
by The Jesuit Post | Oct 14, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1min
This week, we took some looks at stories of tragedy leading to hope: Tim O’Brien’s attention was caught by a radio story of a survivor of the Bosnian genocide, whose life may have become better off broken. Responding to a NYTimes story about descendants of...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Oct 12, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Howard H. Scott 1920 to two weeks ago Saturday Steve Jobs singlehandedly undid this man’s life work. In 1948 Mr. Scott invented Long Playing vinyl record. LPs–which could hold 22 minutes of music on each side–replaced the 78s that could only hold four. He took us...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Oct 11, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Grab that Zippo lighter ‘cause it’s time to rock! What’s that Stevie “Guitar” Miller? You say you’ve been “ridin’ along in this big ol’ jet plane” and thinking about home? Jon Bon Jovi claims he doesn’t sleep for days while on the road… The power...
by Michael Rozier, SJ | Oct 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
I admit it. I was wrong. Last January, I predicted that the election would turn on the health care debate. Obamacare crystallizes the central questions between the two parties right now: Does government have a positive role in shaping society? Does the social...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Oct 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
When Eli Sagir showed her grandfather, Yosef Diamant, the new tattoo on her left forearm, he bent his head to kiss it. Mr. Diamant had the same tattoo, the number 157622, permanently inked on his own arm by the Nazis at Auschwitz. – from Jori Rudoren’s piece in the...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Oct 9, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
“That’s a crazy idea” I said aloud in an otherwise empty car. I was driving south along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, en route for an overdue haircut, and was listening to an interview with Esad Boskailo and Julia Lieblich on the local NPR affiliate. The pair are...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Oct 9, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
It was just another day here in the Seattle University Jesuit community dining room. It was just another dinner. I think we had salmon to be exact; it is Seattle after all. And then, inexplicably, we had fortune cookies for dessert. Strike that. We had...
