by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Apr 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
There’s something mystical about feeling the earth beneath your feet. Bonus points if you can arrange for “Chariots of Fire” to be playing as your soundtrack. Simply running isn’t enough anymore. In order to reconnect with our primal, natural selves, we need to start...
by Jayme Stayer, SJ | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
Editor’s Note: this is the second part of Jayme Stayer’s essay “Sh*t Christian Poets Say.” If you missed part 1 you can read it here. *** Last week in the first section of this essay, I sketched a general picture of the problems of religious...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Feb 20, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
For the past couple of weeks the poetic world has been mourning the death of Wisława Szymborska, the Polish poet and Nobel Laureate in Literature. She passed away at the age of 88. Though an accomplished poet, it is a work of her prose that has embedded itself in my...
by Jayme Stayer, SJ | Feb 15, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 11 mins
Most contemporary Christian poetry is revolting. For all I know, there may be piles of finger-lickin’-good poems written for Muslim and Jewish consumption, but I can say with certainty that I would rather be crushed under a load of bricks than read another saccharine...
