As much as new life is growing outside, Michael Rossmann reflects on how May is often a month of hard goodbyes and having one’s roots ripped out.
Posts in Spirituality
Against the Wall: Border Crossings and Still Small Voices
Borders are places of encounter and division, hope and despair. Garrett Gundlach, SJ finds all of these on both sides of the border after a recent visit to Nogales.
Impoverished Definitions: Love to Love to Love Ya
Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ’s narrow understanding of love gives way to reveal the broad, rich and complex reality it always was.
Beyond Bed and Bath: Candles in Latino Culture
Andrés Arteaga, SJ considers our fascination with candles, and what they might offer us in our moments of suffering and incomprehension.
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
Eric Immel, SJ reflects on the power of repetition in pop music, religion, and everywhere in between.
An Inconvenient Faith: Ruined for Life
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps proudly claims that their members will be ‘ruined for life’. Eric Immel, SJ was never a Jesuit Volunteer but he’d like them to know that he’s been ruined too.
The Fault: Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Violence
Faults are rupturing all around us. Brendan Busse asks us to look at the tensions beneath the crisis.
In Prison and Porn: The Search for a Personal Life
“We all have a good script and we’re all just waiting to be discovered.” L.A. native, Brendan Busse, S.J., finds something deeply human in the City of Angels.
Weighting To Exhale
How do we recognize ourselves made in the image of God when we hate what we see in the mirror? Damian Torres-Botello, SJ shares his own struggles with weight and self-image, as always, with honesty and insight.
Confronting Inner Prejudices
In his first TJP essay, Lucas Sharma describes his experience of confronting racism in a new city and prejudice in himself.