by Joe Simmons, SJ | Feb 3, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
I was not a happy camper. Seven months ago many of my brother Jesuits – men with whom I had entered the Society – were headed off to spend half the summer together learning to teach in northern California. But not me. Instead, I left behind my friends and community,...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Feb 2, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
They looked at me like a nut-job when I said it. But I was dead serious: “Oh, you can refill a tube of toothpaste,” I said with a strange confidence. “Yup, that’s right; I do it all the time.” I was talking in a stairwell with two fellow Jesuits. We travel a lot, and...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Feb 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Listening to Otis Redding will make you a better lover. How, you ask? Take Otis’s gem ‘Try A Little Tenderness.’ This song has a mysterious power to it: it not only talks about tenderness; it is tenderness; it drives you to be tender. In Catholic theological lingo,...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
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...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
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?)...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
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...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 1min
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...
by Paul Lickteig, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
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...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
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...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
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....
