What are you holding out hope for?
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.
A “Better Place” for Compliments
Colten Biro, SJ is bad at accepting compliments. A new music video offers some help.
Our Normal Is Not Normal
Your friends are probably a horrible measure of reality, writes Michael Rossmann, SJ.
Discernment, Choice, and Captain America
Choosing between goods can be hard, let alone choosing between your favorite superheroes.
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.
Freedom for What? Reading Franzen for Today
We have the freedom to be everything but free. Bill McCormick considers the lasting relevance of Franzen’s novel “Freedom.”
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.