He learned Spanish for fun. They must learn English out of necessity. Lucas Sharma, SJ looks at his experience in Colombia and Colombians who had to leave their homes.
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After the Flood: The Redemption of Baton Rouge
Where does Baton Rouge go after the summer of Alton Sterling and the Great Flood? Michael Mohr, SJ reflects.
Waging Peace Through Friendship
World Friendship Day sounds like a Hallmark gimmick, but Michael Rossmann, SJ describes its importance and explains what helps global friendships happen.
When Canaries Can’t Breathe: Sotomayor’s Justice from Below
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” So wrote Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his magisterial treatment, The Common Law, nearly 140 years ago. More and more, it becomes apparent that so much of our legal system --...
In Living Color: I Am Not Black
Damian Torres-Botello, SJ is not African-American, but he is a man of color, and this is what this moment in our history says to him.
What Can Words Do?
Paddy Gilger, SJ and Matt Spotts, SJ found themselves asking what good it does to write and think in the wake of the violence experienced over the last few days.
Frederick Douglass & Rethinking the Fourth
Frederick Douglass gave his famous Fourth of July speech a day late, on July 5, 1852. The majesty of his oratory matched the solemnity of the occasion: It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom. This, to you, is what the Passover...
John Oliver and the Year Of Mercy
What do a British comedian and an Argentine pope have in common? Jason Downer SJ helps us find out.
A Stolen Past Is Just the Beginning
Garrett Gundlach, SJ tries to unknot poverty, hope and history as he reflects on his first year teaching on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Commencement and Remembering
Our liberation is linked with others. Marcos Gonzales, SJ writes that we are to bear the pain of a broken world in his commencement address.