Remember that you are dust…Dust worth dying for!
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.
Reality, “Lost Boys,” & Hope
Colten Biro, SJ, discusses his struggle with hope, reality, and Ruth B.’s song “Lost Boys.”
A Prayer for Orlando
In times of tragedies, when we have no better words, let our prayers sustain us and encourage us to respond as Christ does.
Education in America: What We Agree to Ignore
Dan Dixon, SJ argues that the new (and much lauded) Every Student Succeeds Act misses the point: that racial and socioeconomic segregation is the main cause of the achievement gap.
Hamilton on Repeat
Danny Gustafson, SJ won’t stop listening to the Hamilton soundtrack. Why keep listening to the same songs over and over?
The World Needs More Fist Bumps
It’s not just for athletes and the First Couple. Michael Rossmann, SJ writes that we could all use a little more congratulatory touch.
Border Time
Bill McCormick, SJ explains what it is like to grow up on the US-Mexico border, where “time is greater than space.”