Where are you headed? Who's leading you? What's blocking your way? In this week's One-Minute Homily, Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ, talks about the road of life. Based on the readings for Sunday, September 30, which you can find here: https://bit.ly/2NHvJH0
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.
The Dead Beat: Animal Edition
This week, a menagerie memoriam to the purveyors of Pokemon and Pintos and Pink Floyd. Also, a polar bear.
Autumn Is Ours, But for a While
Joe Simmons, SJ explores a few pages of the ‘Book of Nature’ and finds himself falling for autumn.
Putting Love Back in “Tough Love”
Lashing with the whip of truth? Quang Tran on the truth about truth-telling.
TJPodcast: Rosetta Stone and the Grammar of Silence
Rosetta Stone has no “prayer” section. Garrett Gundlach muses about praying when language works against us.
Worth Reading: “The Sinner Pope”
There’s nothing wrong with asking what he’s going to do. Editor-in-chief Paddy Gilger just thinks you should first ask who Pope Francis really is.
La Aleatoriedad de Dios
Nuestro propio biólogo evolutivo Jesuita reconcilia la aleatoriedad de la evolución con la religión usando ideas de Jackson Pollock y… ¿Garth Brooks?