by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Apr 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
There’s something mystical about feeling the earth beneath your feet. Bonus points if you can arrange for “Chariots of Fire” to be playing as your soundtrack. Simply running isn’t enough anymore. In order to reconnect with our primal, natural selves, we need to start...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Apr 5, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Each man’s death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee. – John Donne I admit it – I’m a sucker for a good old-fashioned bell tower. My alma mater, Marquette University, has a beauty...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
If some the the hype around neuroscience is correct — we may never pray the same way again. That’s one of the conclusions we might leap to from reports like NPR’s “Is This Your Brain On God?” Some research suggests that there’s a “God spot” in the brain, a region that...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 9 mins
If you have ever thrown an elbow or slid cleats high. If you ever snapped back or punched first. If you have ever quietly stolen inconsequential things, small pieces of candy from a store, a magazine from a waiting room. If you have wiped your mouth on a dishtowel and...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Apr 3, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
The summer before my final year of philosophy studies in Chicago I was sent to the far northeastern region of India, to a state called Nagaland. I was to live at Eden Gardens, a Jesuit run boarding home with about 215 children in a village named Khuzama. I boarded...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Apr 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
There are all kinds of sayings about the sense of sight, and especially how it can mislead us: “Looks can be deceiving,” “don’t let your eyes fool you,” and “beauty is only skin deep.” These came to mind the other day as I read this post by Richard Krulwich at NPR. It...
by Michael Rossmann, SJ | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
This is excruciating. As I type these words I’m being assaulted by cheers and groans from the next room. My brother Jesuits, like many others on this basketball-obsessed campus, are caught up in the throes of March Madness, and it is killing me. After...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Apr 2, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
I heard about the death of Trayvon Martin a bit late in the game. By the time I heard about it, all of the deep pain that tragedy and the specter of racial violence can evoke had already combined with the acrimony and vitriol that national news cycles can generate. ...
by The Jesuit Post | Apr 2, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1min
What kind of faith is lost (and found) at college? That’s the question Michael C. McCarthy, SJ tackles in his TJP debut essay, responding to Rick Santorum’s well-publicized concern about higher education undermining belief. As faithful readers will have...
by Peter Folan, SJ | Apr 1, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
The first day of April was a busy one for me in 1996. For starters, it marked the ten-year anniversary of one of the more traumatic academic moments in my life. I wish retelling the story stung less. But talking about this is good. On March 31, 1986, I accepted the...
