by The Jesuit Post | Sep 9, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
It’s back to school time, and Ryan Duns has The Jesuit Guide to Starting College ready to greet new freshman — if you know any new freshmen, toss the link their way. Hey, maybe there’s a market here: James Martin has The Jesuit Guide to (Almost)...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Sep 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
I’m pretty new at this reading-obituaries-everyday thing, but I tell you what: I get the impression that women, African Americans and Latinos die far more infrequently than wealthy white men. Who knew the mortality rate among the ruling class was so high? This week,...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Sep 7, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
We had arrived at the apartment complex just ahead of a summer storm, complete with threatening sky, swirling winds, and an electric charge in the air. With hot wind and the beginnings of lightning at our backs, we were greeted at the ground floor door by a woman with...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Sep 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
What’s wrong with Taylor Swift? Our all-American tween-country star drops her first #1 single and her fans seem to hate it (one review: “If Taylor Swift wins country music awards this year it will be the biggest insult to country music!”). But why? After all, the...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | Sep 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
As reported by a multitude of media outlets, including TJP, an 80 year-old woman in Spain recently “restored” the face of Jesus to a cartoonish second-cousin of Magilla Gorilla. Unfortunately, nobody (not even our own Tim O’Brien) seems very interested in...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
Next week marks the start my third round of graduate-level education – territory usually only covered by M.D.’s (and Chris Farley in Tommy Boy). While this by no means makes me an expert in educational theory, when combined with some time as a...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Sep 4, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Triangles aside, French mathematician Blaise Pascal is best known for his Pensées, a collection of pithy thoughts on life, death, and Christianity. Pascal was no fan of the Jesuits, but I enjoy his writing all the same. Consider this gem: “Too much and too little...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
As our friends over at IgnatianSpirituality.com know well, there are all kinds of jokes about Jesuits. For reasons I’ll explain shortly, I recently thought of the following joke that’s posted over at their site: A Franciscan and a Jesuit were friends. They were both...
by The Jesuit Post | Sep 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
It’s easy to feel conflicted about Labor Day. The day off is nice and all, no question. But then again the holiday has a somber tone about it, since it has come to signify the unofficial end of the allegedly endless days of summer. Given that, it’s easy to...
by The Jesuit Post | Sep 2, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 2 mins
Are you following TJP on Facebook yet? If not, then you’ve missed out on our dive into the world of internet memes (see our full catalog here): This meme picked up on a reader’s comment about Quang Tran’s post connecting “Luke, I am your...
