Peter is twenty nine years old. He is a catechist, a father-figure to nearly thirty others, and a high school senior. He lives in the Kakuma Refugee Camp. This is part of his story.
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So what DOES the fox say?!
Sometimes you wonder why you just can’t look away…
A Prayer for Syria
On the day Pope Francis has called the Church to pray for peace in Syria, Tony Homsy, a Syrian Jesuit, asks God to bring a resurrection of peace to his country.
You Can’t Take It With You: Soul Edition
We remember the Irish keeper of the soul of the language and the South African who shared her soul with the world.
On Syria: Praying Because We Don’t Know What to Hope for
In the face of real tragedy and suffering, is praying for peace a real answer? Or is it just a cop-out to avoid hard choices?
Badass Redux: Saints
Pious ninnies my foot. These saints are hardcore.
The Transcendent Art of Video Games
Could a video a video game be a Portal (see what we did there?!?) to an experience of the transcendent? Nate Romano thinks so.
#tbt-VMA’s
In this weeks #tbt, Vinny Marchionni revisits the ghosts of VMA’s past.
The Spirituality of Sports Fanaticism
Taking a look at the admitted craziness of rabid sports fandom from the outside, Michael Rossmann discovers some surprising parallels to the spiritual life.
Mike of the Badlands
Brother Mike Zimmerman is the tall, hard-edged, slightly mystical, highly sentimental, altogether surprising 79 year-old former superintendent of grounds at Red Cloud Indian School. Near him, doubts about the workings of the divine are swatted away.