John the Baptist pointed out Jesus to those around him. Jeff Ryan Miraflor, SJ, reminds us that we're called to do the same in this week's One-Minute Homily. Based on the readings for Sunday, January 19, 2020, which you can find here: http://bit.ly/OMH011920...
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.
Are you ready for [the possible consequences of] some football?
In light of the deaths of several high school football players and after his own experience with a concussion, Chris Schroeder looks again at a sport he had always loved.
The Wisdom of Freshmen: How 14-year-olds Respond to Violence
Billy Biegler, S.J., asked his students a question: How would you respond to racial violence? The answer surprised him.
Sister Cristina is back and she is taking on Madonna
Singing Nun, Loving Song
9 Short Tips To Balance Tech and Soul
If technology is how and where we meet and share, how do we go there with our whole selves, not just our shopper and gossiper?
On Love and Dignity and Dying
Dignity isn’t opposed to suffering. Sometimes suffering reveals dignity’s truest face.
Contagious: Love in the Time of Ebola
What if we came to understand that the lives and suffering of others already affects us?