by Jake Braithwaite, SJ | Jun 24, 2020 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Right after Easter, my month-long quarantine was interrupted. The Pope Francis Center in Detroit–a place where folks on the margins can get meals and other essentials–needed workers. Accustomed to relying on volunteers to help serve meals, stay-at-home...
by David Inczauskis, SJ | Jun 18, 2020 | Pop Culture, Social Media ~ Approx. 4 mins
You shall not click “Tweet” until you pray to the Lord your God. We know it when we see it. We see others do it. We do it ourselves. Sometimes, we do not invite God into the tweet production process, and it shows. We tweet in vain. If God is not the writer of the...
by Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ | Jun 17, 2020 | Blogs, Prayers, Spirituality, Videos ~ Approx. 1min
“Behold, I am making all things new” (Is 43:18 NRSV) Neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Dale Archer, published a piece in the Journal of the American Psychological Association stating, “Hope is not a wish for things to get better, rather it is a belief that things will always get...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Jun 10, 2020 | Blogs, Race, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Escaping reality is easy when you’ve got a phone in your hands. With a few simple taps, we have the capacity to be under the sea on Disney+, in the old west on HBOGO, or in a Russian emperor’s estate on Hulu. We can look up old flings on Facebook, and we can scan...
by Damian Torres-Botello, SJ | Jun 3, 2020 | Blogs, Prayers, Race, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
What did you learn yesterday? Anything? My interpretation of #BlackOutTuesday: mute the self-centeredness of social media and heed the words of Psalm 34:15: “The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.” It was a call to learn...
