by Michael Rossmann, SJ | Jul 1, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 9 mins
When our very own Tim O’Brien described pop music as “cloying, vapid, trashy, vacuous” I immediately decided that we needed another article about it.1 Sure, pop music seems to have little in the way of… umm… depth (“boom boom boom, even brighter than the...
by The Jesuit Post | Jul 1, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1min
Don’t worry; Week in Review took some time off while we launched our first video Month in Review (have you checked it out yet?), but we’re back now. Some highlights from the last two weeks: We launched a summer series, “Journey Moments,” that...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jun 30, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
Having stolen a page from the Apple playbook (note the classy white background), and thanks to the digital wizardry of our good friends at Loyola Productions, we are happy to introduce the first of an ongoing video series, the Month In Review. That’s right,...
by Paddy Gilger, SJ | Jun 29, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
So, I’m tense these days. I look up from reading the San Francisco Chronicle, my spoon dripping the morning milk, and wonder: why do my shoulders hurt? Lately, my forehead crinkles in the morning as I wonder: why am I already anxious to be done with today? These are...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Jun 28, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
Editor’s note: the first letter can be read here – part 1. *** Dear Timothy, I hope you have not lost sleep over the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” It’s an odd sort of question because it does not ask about any one thing or another...
by Jeff Johnson, SJ | Jun 28, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
In terms of geographic literary location, England’s Lake District has inspired the likes of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, John Ruskin and Beatrix Potter. The Lake District, even today, features wooded pastures, farmland, fells, mires, screes, windswept...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jun 27, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Please finish the following phrase: “any way you want it…” If you finished with “that’s the way you need it,” then, you too have one of Journey’s greatest hits burned into your psyche. Like the gentlemen in the State Farm commercial, I’d say we just had...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jun 27, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Editors Note: This is the 1st installment of our new summer series, Journey Moments. To learn more about the series and the stories we will be sharing throughout the summer please check out Journey Moments: An Introduction. Every Tuesday at 8:30 PM “Night Cap, Call...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Author’s note: This past week, I served as one of five adult leaders for a Kairos retreat. One student remarked early on that his own uncertainty about God made talking about faith very difficult. This is hardly surprising. If we can’t establish the credibility of...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
As a third-grader during the 1994-95 school year, I received a snapback hat (or, as we used to call it, a “one size-fits-all”). But this wasn’t any snapback. It was the currently uber-popular, electric teal-and-purple Charlotte Hornets snapback, to be precise. It did...
