Are you open to being surprised by Jesus? Colten Biro, SJ, points out how Jesus interacts with his friends after the Resurrection and encourages us to be open to one of these encounters during the Easter season. Based on the readings for Sunday, April 28, which you...
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.
It’s Going Down, I’m Yelling Timber!
Even if you self-medicate through copious amounts of drugs, sex, and alcohol at some point the music is going to stop.
Catholic Writing Today: Dana Gioia
In the second feature of TJP’s Catholic Writing Series, poet and critic Dana Gioia talks about the challenges that face up-and-coming Catholic writers.
New Year, New Laws
If you think our legislative process is broken, Nate Romano invites you to consider it from another angle.
Papal Economics, or Francis the Communalist
So Pope Francis isn’t really a Marxist, fine. But how can we characterize his economics? And what does it mean for economists?
Worth Watching: Dinosaurs! Apocalypse! Dinopocalypse!
There’s a terrifying new theory that may overturn what we thought we knew about the end of the dinosaurs.
Richard Sherman’s March to Notoriety
Race, showmanship, football… all in a postgame interview!