Imitate God? How do we even begin? Well, we can receive the one we imitate, says Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ in this week’s One-Minute Homily.
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.
How God Looks at Us
In those tearful moments, at the end of a long day, I was sure of something: like a new parent at the window of a hospital nursery, God marvels at us. And lingers.
Mike of the Badlands
Brother Mike Zimmerman is the tall, hard-edged, slightly mystical, highly sentimental, altogether surprising 79 year-old former superintendent of grounds at Red Cloud Indian School. Near him, doubts about the workings of the divine are swatted away.
You Can’t Take It With You: Presidential Performer Edition
The dean of the White House Press Corps and the maker of Hogwarts this week beg our farewells.
When No One Is Looking
Mike Rozier looks at how ‘structures of virtue’ can help reduce the use of pornography and fight the anonymity of the internet.
Remain In Love: To Live Without Leaving
Brendan Busse on the stomach-pain of leaving (Brazil, friends, World Youth Day) and the soft comfort of remaining (in love, across distance, in God).
A New Approach To Crime and Punishment
Popsicles, back-to-school sales, sentencing reform. That’s just the kind of late-summer conversation our Nate Romano loves.