by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Bobby Petrino’s recent all-too-public sexcapdes have gotten me thinking about, of all things, celibacy! Wait, what? Petrino’s situation isn’t terrifyingly unique; in fact, he’s a cliche. Media outlets have inundated American society with the sexual indiscretions of...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
It’s term paper time. For the next week, my life will be non-stop grading. I’ll spend hours searching, sometimes in vain, for thesis statements and for that rare and beautiful thing called argument. Okay — I’m being cynical. Some of the papers are actually a pleasure...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | May 1, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
The white lilies in the sanctuary were in full bloom still, a week after Easter. Three generations – grandma, mom, and little girl – sat in the pew ahead of me. The girl was coloring a picture of Ariel from the Little Mermaid. Easily distracted as I tend to be, I...
by John Shea, SJ | Apr 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Following the lead of my brother TJP contributors Jim Keane and Jason Brauninger I start with a public confession: God was not my first love. No, I fell in love with nature long before my love affair with God began. I’ve always felt free in nature, especially in the...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Apr 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
“Pray, hope, and don’t worry” was Padre Pio’s famous maxim for living the Christian life. It’s good advice, if a bit hard to follow. Two out of three is a good day, for me at least. Since January of this year, the NYTimes Opinionator blog has been running a series of...
by The Jesuit Post | Apr 30, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1min
This week at TJP, a few of our team picked up where others left off: Brendan Busse does penance at spin class, wondering where Michael Rossmann found 11 lessons, and Matthew Dunch, writing about nothing, took up Tim O’Brien’s challenge to make it about...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Apr 27, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
It’s not exactly a perfect penance, and I might not be able to come up with 11 lessons, but I have been a regular participant in my own local spin class. For the unacquainted allow me to explain: spinning is an exercise where a medieval torture device called a...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Apr 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Have you ever found yourself three pages deep in the comments section of a webpage, blood pressure dangerously close to boiling over, ready to reach out through the computer and make that idiot see reason? What kind of dumb screen name is “holierThanU” anyway? That...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Apr 26, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
I aspire to be a morning person, but liking the idea is usually as far as I go. I like the idea of rising hours before I need to – to welcome the rising sun at my own pace and to get lost with God in an hour of prayer before the demands of today take over, but all I...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Apr 25, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Quick: Think about nothing … nope, not “think about thinking about nothing” — just think about nothing at all. Should be easy, right? (And no cheating, like concentrating on your breathing or concentrating on stillness. Breathing is a thing, and stillness is an...
