Turn the other cheek, give your cloak, love your enemies.
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.
Advent Themes Through Film: Hope & “Children of Men”
Matt White SJ examines the resilience of hope in the 2006 film Children of Men.
The Advent Blues
The waiting is the hardest part, but Peter Folan describes how waiting is at the heart of this season before Christmas.
Litany of Thanks: 10 things to give thanks for in a place where there’s no word for “Thank you”
This Thanksgiving, Brian Strassburger remembers all of the things he is grateful for in a place where it was hard to say “thank you.”
Sexty Thoughts: Pondering teen sexting
Looking at a wide-ranging and serious issue, Juan Ruiz wonders what a better response might be.
Observations from Ferguson
Matt Wooters, SJ and Louie Hotop, SJ share their experiences from Monday night in Ferguson, Missouri.
Breaking the Internet; My Heart
What’s going on when we look at Kim Kardashian’s “Break the Internet” cover? Who is it telling us to be?