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Over my spring break a few weeks ago I accompanied one of Saint Louis University’s outreach trips to the small town of Kermit, West Virginia. We spent a week amidst the scenery and accents of the coal country…

“Don’t you know that God is the same everywhere?” the Father asked. “Yes,” the boy answered, “…but I’m not.” I thought of this a few weeks ago, as I sat reading…

In college I wouldn’t have gone anywhere near a site like the Jesuit Post, but then I spent most of my life telling myself that I should have been someone else…

I doubt that I’m the only one who’s ever been bothered by scripture. In fact, in a backwards sort of way, being bothered by scriptures can actually be a good thing…

We were on the 110 heading south when we began to notice small white feathers floating outside the car. The traffic came to a crawl, and we gazed up at the towers of downtown L.A. through a cloud of feathers…

Penance doesn’t make the hurt feelings disappear like my brother Jesuits when it’s time to empty the dishwasher, but it does start the process of getting back into the habits of good relationship, into the habit of enjoying God.

One of my favorite students (not that teachers have favorites), who can do no wrong in my estimation (not that teachers are partial), floats in late, unphased by his tardiness and starts chatting me up…

The hardest thing, he said, was changing your motivating question from “What do I need?” to “What can I give?”

Brendan Busse asks what this one underground British rock band can teach us about what we’re paying attention to in our hour of darkness – ourselves or some whispered words of wisdom.