by Eric Immel, SJ | Jun 19, 2019 | Blogs, Sexuality ~ Approx. 4 mins
This post is edited from its original, published on April 8, 2014 – Fine By Me: An All-Embracing Love *** The first time a friend came out to me, I was shopping for a Campbell’s Soup Can costume at a Target in St. Louis. As I searched for a means to disguise...
by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ | Jun 12, 2019 | Blogs, Gender, Sexuality, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
This post is edited from its original, published on August 1, 2018 – A Beautiful Bond: Argentinian Nun Ministers to Transgender Women *** The term “LGBT” was used for the first time in a Vatican document. The working document for the 2018 Synod on the Youth...
by Chris Williams, SJ | Jun 5, 2019 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Gallup, New Mexico sprawls across dry desert land, surrounded by large reddish-orange mesas where small, hardy cedar trees and cacti litter the rocky ground. The cacti bloom in the Spring with tiny bright red flowers that sparkle over the brown dust and rocks. It is...
by Colten Biro | May 29, 2019 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 2min
There is a secret lie that I’ve held since childhood—that prayer is like recipe book or magical spell, wherein the perfect words get the perfect wish fulfilled. But, I often find it’s not the words themselves that matter. Rather, what leads me closer to Christ’s peace...
by Chris Williams, SJ | May 22, 2019 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
I put on my best I’m-really-listening-face, sitting in an old, kind of gross, white-ish wingback chair. My friend sits opposite on another identical chair. As I nurse a glass of nice Scotch, I notice the ends of the armrests, stained mysteriously gray from hours of...
