“Joy to the world, the Lord has come!” What? Too soon?
The Right to Life of Animals
Being in the image of God implies that humans have certain capacities for the transcendent, which confers them their rights. Because animals have certain capacities for love and self-mastery, Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ reflects that they too deserve to be treated with dignity.
Millennial Optimism and the Year of Hope
As a new year dawns, Nate Cortas, SJ invites us to reflect on choosing faithful hope over shallow optimism.
“Fantastic Four: First Steps” – Christ Hidden in the Most Unlikely Places
Bored on a Saturday night, Raj Vijayakumar, SJ reluctantly clicked play on a Marvel film—and stumbled into an unexpected theological meditation. Fantastic Four: First Steps, he reflects, raises enduring Christian questions about sacrifice, family, and ethics.
Weighting To Exhale
How do we recognize ourselves made in the image of God when we hate what we see in the mirror? Damian Torres-Botello, SJ shares his own struggles with weight and self-image, as always, with honesty and insight.
Confronting Inner Prejudices
In his first TJP essay, Lucas Sharma describes his experience of confronting racism in a new city and prejudice in himself.
This I Believe: Created in God’s Image
If we’re all made in God’s image and likeness, Damian Torres-Botello, SJ offers a prayer that we might all embrace that godly image.
The Trans-Pacific What Now?
TJP’s Ken Homan, SJ reacts to TPP: a secretive free-trade bill that ignores the poor.
Real Presence: On (Being) Musical Wallpaper
Sometimes you’re the lead and sometimes you’re the back-up. In either case Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ sees the gift in your offering…the power of your presence.
It Takes a Community: Cristo Rey & Carlos Belmont
Dan Dixon, SJ spends a day following a tech-savvy young Cristo Rey student, Carlos Belmont. In a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, the truth rises again: it takes a community to educate a child.