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.
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.