How do you identify a Christian? While there might be many answers to that question, Christopher Smith, SJ, reflects on the one answer that Jesus gives in today’s gospel.
Finding God in Football: The Ignatian Examen Applied to Sports
As a semi-professional soccer player, Javi Bailén, SJ understood the importance of routine reflection. As a Jesuit, he discovered how the Ignatian spirituality provides perfect tools for athletes and teams to reflect on their performance. In his first for TJP, Javi writes about how the Examen can be adapted for sports teams to find God in their game – and perhaps improve their future play.
Finding God in Newcastle United’s Long-Awaited Trophy
On March 16, Newcastle United F.C. won their first trophy in over half a century. Christopher Brolly, SJ, a Newcastle lad living in Boston, reflects on the significance of his beloved football club’s victory for the city and its people. Brolly writes that the club’s triumph in the Carabao Cup goes deeper than football.
The Jubilee Year: It’s Time to Come Home
In his first piece for The Jesuit Post, Eric Lastres, SJ reflects on the Jubilee Year of Hope and the invitation to renewal it offers.
What Are We Asking of Teachers?
Facing a new teaching job and recalling recent violence in schools, Colten Biro, SJ wonders what’s really being asked of him.
A Woman’s Place is in Her Union
This Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, let’s celebrate the role of women in labor organizing
El Lugar de una Mujer es en su Sindicato
Esta Fiesta de San José Obrero, celebremos el rol de la mujer en el movimiento sindical.
Alfie Evans, RIP
Can Catholics agree on anything?
God’s Plan by Drake
I can’t do this on my own, ay, no, ay.
Thoughts and Prayers or Action?
In a time when thoughts and prayers don’t seem to be worth as much as action, Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, reflects on whether one can exist without the other.