What’s our purpose in life? Jesus’ words in the Gospel today give us a good place to start. Matthew Zurcher, SJ, reflects on finding purpose by focusing on others, as God does.
Grief, Relationality, and Animals: A Call to Bother to Love
Grief at the death of animals reveals a moral obligation we too often ignore. Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ argues that if we dare to feel this grief, it becomes a call to love them as fellow creatures of God.
Unstoppable Grace: Sacraments and Sinful Ministers
Reflecting on his current studies in theology, Josh reflects on how a hundreds-year-old debate on the sacraments touched his own life and brought him healing.
Atomic Pilgrim: A Book Review
In his forthcoming memoir Atomic Pilgrim, James Patrick Thomas recounts his cross-continental pilgrimage from Washington State to the Holy Land and his later activism back home. Writing for The Jesuit Post, Luke Lapean, SJ reflects on how the memoir provocatively asks whether true success in the struggle for change lies in measurable outcomes or in the quiet, interior transformation of the one who walks the road.
The Good Old Days
What’s so great about throwbacks and 90s dance parties?
Children’s Stories & Adult Realities
A perfectly misguided lesson plan, ruined by the realities of students. Colten Biro, SJ, reflects on how his students’ stories made things real.
SLU at 200
Is there still a place for Jesuit education in the 21st century?
Grow Up! Or Savor Your Youth?
It’s 10 P.M. and today’s teens are more likely to be at home than past generations. Is that a good thing?
Princess Charming: Feeling Through the Story of Lady Diana Spencer
What does the story of a princess who died twenty years ago continue to tell us about ourselves?
Jesus is Not a Communist
A shattered Crucifix symbolizes the strength of the Vietnamese Church.