by Jason McCreery, SJ | Mar 11, 2021 | Blogs, Current Events, In the News, Sacraments, Spirituality ~ Approx. 7 mins
The beauty and suffering of King David, his failure and his glory, have been on my mind a lot these days. I remember hearing the story of the fateful night when he spotted Bathsheba, bathing on her roof. I remember the suppressed scandal of the words, my mind (no...
by Ian Peoples, SJ | Feb 26, 2021 | Music, Pop Culture, Social Media ~ Approx. 4 mins
What would you do if someone asked you to create a song about someone they loved who’d recently died? I’m talking on the spot. Don’t put it on paper. Just start speaking words with the hope that you could say something meaningful–something that touched the heart....
by Andrew Milewski, SJ | Dec 9, 2020 | Advent, Blogs, Christmas, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Sitting in my warm room, it’s difficult for me to get the motivation to brave the cold. Even running down the road to the local grocery can feel like a burden. Yet, as I pray over the Gospels, I am reminded of the effort and resolve demanded of people who wanted to be...
by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Dec 1, 2020 | Current Events, In the News, Justice ~ Approx. 9 mins
COVID-19 is not the first pandemic of our lifetime. But we’re certainly acting like it is. Missteps, misinformation, and pandemic-fatigue have propelled the virus into a brutal new wave of infections in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Have we...
by Jake Braithwaite, SJ | Oct 28, 2020 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
I started teaching 7th and 8th grade math at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep in mid-September. I had been eagerly awaiting the first day of school after months of quarantining and packing and moving. For over a year, I’d been conversing in prayer with Jesus about how excited I...
