“Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.”
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.
Don’t Waste Love
Eric Immel, SJ admits that sometimes everything seems to get in the way of the love that’s offered and the love he wants to give.
God’s Holy Fools? The Wisdom of Living Saints
Joe Simmons, SJ considers the ‘holy fools’ in his life, and what it might take to become a saint in today’s world.
5 Ways Gratitude Can Change American Politics
Our political scientist Bill McCormick, SJ explains that two essential truths can define American political culture: disillusionment and gratitude. But we’re only talking about one of them.
Coming Out of the Dark
Damian Torres-Botello, SJ reminds us revealing yourself to the world, even to the ones you love, is not easy.
Rethinking Chill
Eric Immel, SJ confronts a recent trend in dating and wonders if it really leads to love.
Francis, at the Heart of an Ecological Conversion
We may treat Pope Francis like a celebrity, but Andy Nguyen, looking at Laudato Si’, shows how the Pope is calling us to a conversion of heart.