by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Apr 18, 2023 | Justice ~ Approx. 8 mins
“Slaveholding was always a choice.” This is the running theme in Christopher J. Kellerman’s book, All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church. The Church’s history of slaveholding then is “not of one choice, but of...
by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Nov 16, 2022 | Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
I never thought of making my own Bible, at least not until reading Imani Perry’s Breathe: A Letter to My Sons. Perry thinks we should follow the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said in one of his journals, “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all those words...
by Christian Verghese, SJ | May 17, 2022 | Justice, The Jesuits, TJP Reads ~ Approx. 6 mins
Amid the continued barrage of images from the Ruso-Ukrainian conflict, you may have encountered harrowing footage of tattooed Salvadoran prisoners stripped down to their underwear and stacked against each other in jail yards throughout the country. In April, El...
by Brent Gordon, SJ | Apr 29, 2021 | Fantasy Fiction & Faith, Pop Culture, Series ~ Approx. 4 mins
Some stories have so entered the public consciousness that we feel as if we know them even if we have never actually read them. Such is the case with Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The main twist- that the seemingly respectable...
by Brent Gordon, SJ | Mar 4, 2021 | Catholic Writing, Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction & Faith, Fiction, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 4 mins
“Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings!” What a wonderful first line in Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley. There is something epic about the call to remember, and something earthy about beginning that call with a word like “bro.” This...
