Lost and Found, or Homelessness and Grace

Lost and Found, or Homelessness and Grace

One of the most sacred questions out there is a simple one: “What is it like to be you?” When we ask this question we are drawn out of ourselves into the mysterious experience of another. When we are asked this question we are brought back to ourselves. Both...
Lohan and Holy Gossip

Lohan and Holy Gossip

Lindsay Lohan has been back in the headlines recently, after the notoriously reckless actress slammed her Porsche into an 18-wheeler in Santa Monica, CA. Lohan initially claimed she was not driving the car, but as the drama surrounding the accident escalated, her...
Worth Reading: the Health Care Verdict

Worth Reading: the Health Care Verdict

The reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on health care was fairly predictable. Democrats said it’s not a win for them but for the people of this country.  Republicans claimed we can no longer depend on the Supreme Court for fair decisions. It wouldn’t...
Bad Pop, Good God (A Top 10 List)

Bad Pop, Good God (A Top 10 List)

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...
The Month In Review: June 2012

The Month In Review: June 2012

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,...
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

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...
How to Be an Atheist: Creation Ex Nihilo

How to Be an Atheist: Creation Ex Nihilo

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...
Sunshine State Literature

Sunshine State Literature

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...
Journey Moments: An Introduction

Journey Moments: An Introduction

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...