by The Jesuit Post | Feb 4, 2020 | Ask Iggy, Videos ~ Approx. 1 min
What are some of the most common Jesuit words and phrases that you hear in Jesuit institutions? Brian Strassburger, SJ, and Tucker Redding, SJ, list our top 7 and break down their deeper meaning in this episode of Ask...
by Social Media Team | Nov 5, 2019 | Ask Iggy ~ Approx. 1 min
Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints and Blesseds of the Society of Jesus, plus it’s International Jesuit Vocations Day. No matter what our vocation is in life, we are called to live for the MAGIS. You’ve probably seen that term if you’ve been...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Feb 15, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Have you ever wanted to teach middle school? I thought not. It’s no easy task to get sixth graders to sit still, must less get knowledge in their heads. You can imagine my astonishment when I saw a room full of twelve-year olds, silent and still. My Chicago Jesuit...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
What does science have to do with the meaning of life? Adam Frank of NPR’s Science and Culture Blog, titled “13.7” after the best estimates of the universe’s age in billions of years, recently took a stab at this question (you can read the whole piece by...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Feb 7, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Some years ago, I put one of my younger sisters onto Douglas Adams’ science-fiction work The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The book’s taste for the fantastic and the absurd was just my sister’s kind of humor, but an unforeseen consequence of the recommendation...