by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
I have a love-hate relationship with TED. If one can be a frenemy with an institution, it would be my frenemy. I keep hanging out with TED; I watch his videos and have his App on my phone and tablet. Yet I never come away quite happy with our “conversations.” TED...
by John Shea, SJ | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
“Blessed are the Geeks, for they shall inherit the Earth” If the above quote holds true, I’ll be enjoying oceanfront property in the afterlife. This past President’s Day weekend, I drove six hours to Los Angeles and paid admission to the 23rd annual Doctor Who...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Mar 7, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
As a Jesuit in philosophy studies here in Chicago I’m privileged to work with the Ignatian Spirituality Project, a ministry that offers Ignatian spiritual retreats for homeless men and women in addiction recovery programs (a quick plug: I highly recommend checking out...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Mar 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Hey…wanna make some quick cash? Wondering what you’d have to do? How about intentionally injure another NFL player for $1,000. Pundits have been raging about how some New Orleans Saints pooled money to reward defensive players for delivering hits that knocked...
by Michael Rozier, SJ | Mar 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 11 mins
A few years ago I was in Paris in a meeting room that might as well have been an art gallery – certainly no place for a boy from rural Missouri. I was there because I’d been asked to serve as the English-speaking secretary for a global meeting of the National...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Mar 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 11 mins
After three years of teaching high school boys, I have developed the habit of trying to make whatever I teach as explicit and as practical as possible. So, let me ground this discussion of Imaginative Prayer in a little thought-experiment. Imagine that you are in a...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Mar 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
I always dreaded Lent. “I’m more of an Advent person,” I’d tell you (as though forced to choose between the two purple seasons of the Church year). What I really dreaded was the question. You know — the one we’ve almost certainly asked or been asked umpteen...
by The Jesuit Post | Mar 5, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1min
TJP may have only been around for a a little more than a month — but we’re already managing to run sequels (Jeff Johnson’s Words, Words, Words – Part II, taking another look at the language of the new translation of the Mass) and even trilogies (Joe...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Ours is an age that’s grown comfortable with its idols, for the most part, and so God’s insistence, so central to the Old Testament, on pre-eminence over all other things sounds just a little needy and insecure to contemporary ears. We’re happy to avoid golden calves...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Mar 2, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Apparently it’s sometime in early childhood when we begin to define ourselves. Usually around the age of two we begin to make demands of others. Sadly these others often don’t appreciate our burgeoning self-hood, they even have a slur for us — we’re no longer...
