Tebowing: a Reflection on Precision and Prayer

Tebowing: a Reflection on Precision and Prayer

During a recent visit to my hometown, I was intrigued (and more than a little amused) to note the amount of time and energy that my friends and family expended on their like and/or dislike of now infamous Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. Of course, these...
Hacking A Refrigerator

Hacking A Refrigerator

As a jaded western consumer, I’ve labored long under the delusion that I’d seen it all when it comes to advertising. Last night proved me wrong. In the face of budget shortfalls and ever decreasing usage (honestly, when’s the last time you used a stamp?)...
There’s No App for That

There’s No App for That

I am distressingly inept at discerning technological trends. “The DVD will never last,” I proclaimed confidently in the high school cafeteria. A few years later, I wondered aloud: “Blackberry? Who would want one?” I’ll even confess to encountering the iPad with more...
Home Safe: A Vision of Umpire Jesus (Part 2)

Home Safe: A Vision of Umpire Jesus (Part 2)

Occasionally as a kid I would stay out too late and find myself running home after dark filled with the anxious fear of a child’s overactive imagination. There were dogs in our neighborhood and they would bark and growl and defend their territory from behind the...
Christology Part 1: Ecce Homo

Christology Part 1: Ecce Homo

  In 1998 my friend Anime Emily gave me this tape that had a “mix” on one side and Athens, Georgia indie-rock band Neutral Milk Hotel’s album In the Aeroplane over the Sea on the other. I spent three weeks listening to the first two songs on Side A over and over...
Mavis Staples, Mediatrix of Grace

Mavis Staples, Mediatrix of Grace

I was a bit surprised when she first showed up in my prayer. You see, God reveals himself to each person individually in a way that person can understand.  St. Ignatius of Loyola firmly believed that.  Musically inclined, he experienced the Trinity as three notes...
Conversion Stories: Adapting Woody Allen

Conversion Stories: Adapting Woody Allen

A few days ago on TJP, my pal Joe Simmons asked: why pray? It’s a great question — and you should read what he has to say. But the question takes on a different dimension when asked by folks who are seekers, those looking for God but unsure of what they believe....
Google Knows Best?

Google Knows Best?

“You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you know when I click and what I search; you discern my purpose from afar.”  Two of these three lines are from Psalm 139.  I address the third to Google. According to Google, I’m a 65-year-old woman with interests in...
Week in Review — Jan. 24-29, 2012

Week in Review — Jan. 24-29, 2012

So it was a quiet eight hours of the site being live here at TJP… that is, we had approximately eight hours of quiet before Jim Martin linked us, followed by the good folks at dotMagis and CathNewsUSA, and lots of tweets and Facebook shares.  Quite literally before we...
Finding God in the Midst of Chaos

Finding God in the Midst of Chaos

I spend my days in a Level I Trauma Center.  Most people familiar with Jesuit education imagine a Regent to be a high school teacher, but not all of us share that experience of Jesuit regency.  In May of 2010, I was assigned to the Regis University Jesuit Community to...