by An Hoang Vu, SJ | May 19, 2021 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
I’m living in the time of cancel culture. Although the idea of a cancel culture is more associated with contemporary U.S. culture, I believe that it’s the freedom of speech and social media that brought it to the mainstream. Living with the cancel culture, I find it...
by Andrew Milewski, SJ | May 5, 2021 | Blogs, Race, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
“To be honest,” Yunji told me, “I hardly ever speak English. I don’t have to because at the restaurant all the workers are Korean, and at home I speak Korean with my family.” This is how our Friday morning language exchanges began. Yunji is the aunt of one of the...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Apr 28, 2021 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
When I was in grade school, I used to love that day at the start of a quarter when my teachers would give us a new seating chart (I didn’t know then that my teachers were actually strategizing the best arrangement for their sanity). There were so many possibilities...
by Brett Helbling | Apr 14, 2021 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
I carry a business card in my wallet, just one. Sinesio Flores, landscaping and housekeeping, it proclaims over contrasting trees and tools. I carry it as a reminder of Sinesio, a man who taught me much about giving and a little about God. It took me some time to...
by The Jesuit Post | Apr 8, 2021 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
I’ve been sober now for almost two years. And this will not be my whole story with alcohol; it would not be edifying. Suffice it to say, I was a so-called “functional” alcoholic. Because of this, it took me a long time to question my unhealthy relationship with...
