by The Jesuit Post | Apr 16, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
Well, here at TJP we’ve kept Easter going (and going, and going … wait, is that what’s behind the Energizer bunny?) — and the celebration isn’t over yet. We kicked off last week with Perry Petrich’s take on The Hunger Games as a sign of hope,...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Apr 13, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
What does hell look like? For me, it’s a seven-night Caribbean cruise. No fire, no brimstone, no wailing–just a paradisiacal seven-night Caribbean cruise. David Foster Wallace planted my distaste for shipborne fun in the Caribbean sun in his essay A...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Apr 12, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
“This post was due an hour ago.” It’s 1:30 in the morning, I have 200+ words to write, and that phrase is all that’s running through my head. In other words, I’m familiar with procrastination. Procrastination has always been an easy pattern for people to fall into,...
by Jay Hooks | Apr 11, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
How do you keep gangs off the streets of L.A.? You could build more prisons. Or you could take Father Greg Boyle’s advice: “Jobs, not jails.” Fr. Greg had been working as a parish priest in the rough Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, and he was tired of...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Apr 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
As a kid, my family would get up early on Easter to go to church. When I would ask why we were going to mass at this obscene time (7:30 a.m. being the middle of the night), the answer usually centered on practical things like preparing the familial feast for the early...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Apr 10, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
If you’ve ever been on a plane, seated near the window with the sun high on the opposite side of the aircraft, and if you’ve looked down from that height, you may have seen something like a circular rainbow following along. Do you know what I’m talking about?...
by Sean Dempsey, SJ | Apr 9, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Like much of the known universe, I recently trudged down to my local multiplex to see The Hunger Games, but unlike much of the known universe, I did so with little sense of excitement or anticipation. I have not read any of the novels by Suzanne Collins, of which The...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Apr 8, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
The Hunger Games are all about hope. At least that’s what archvillain President Snow thinks: “Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.” As long as it doesn’t get out of control, hope can motivate Snow’s oppressed masses into their forced labor that keeps...
by The Jesuit Post | Apr 8, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
What does Holy Week look like on the web? Funny you should ask… If you read the title “Flaw” and wince in recognition, and are about to click away in distraction — then you need to read (or reread) this beautiful meditation on our ordinary, everyday...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Apr 8, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
What does Easter look like? More like a silly YouTube video of Stephen Colbert and a flash mob in Macy’s than the picture to the left. Perhaps I’m jaded by over-exposure to religious art, but I really don’t think that the main thing Jesus did after the...
