Just like Jesus in the desert, we are tempted on a regular basis. Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, reminds us that Jesus is both our model and our biggest support when trying to avoid temptation.
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.
Measuring Change
When it feels like he has nothing to write, Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ knows something is wrong. Thank God it’s not permanent.
My Extreme Hero
Someone asked Jake Martin who his hero is, and his answer may surprise you.
Between #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter
#Hashtags matter. Sam Sawyer on being called to conversion.
#RandomYaksofKindness
What connects Advent, a Yak, and you? Garrett Gundlach has the answer.
Some Catholics
The Catholic Church has been described as “here comes everybody.” In Some Catholics, Joe Hoover, in vibrant detail, describes… some Catholics.
Extra Points of Grace
A Minnesota Benedictine nun teaches us three ways to serve God and God’s people.