In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. Today's posting looks at the Gospel of St. Mark....
Sunday marks the start of a new liturgical year - Advent. In today's posting, Philip Shano, SJ brings together Whiskey Advent calendars, Mother Teresa and Moses....
We all need a reason to get out of bed each morning. For young parents, the sound of their youngsters awake in their cribs is all the motivation they need. For the middle aged, hopefully, it is a career that they continue to enjoy. Then there are those in my age category; the seventh decade brigade who are retired and still very active....
The complete title of Robert Cooke's article is "Your Alternative, Guilt Free, Anti-Capitalist, World Changing, Non-Sucking Advent Gift Guide." First posted in his blog - Neo(un)Orthodoxy - it is reposted here with permission....
As part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits and our collaborators. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as contemporary poems. Today's poem, by Greg Kennedy, SJ, looks at Advent and "the red machine on the wall."...
In this article, originally posted in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), Henry Longbottom, SJ, offers some inspiring fashion tips from a most unusual source - Pope Francis....
In the third in a three part series, John D. O'Brien, SJ, interviews Canadian Jesuits who took their vows in August 2015. Today he interviews Raj Vijayakumar, SJ...
It turns out those people wearing the tin foil hats are right:They" are messing with our minds."They" in this case is Facebook, and "they" decided to find out how we react to an increase or decrease in positive or negative posts by manipulating the news feeds of 600,000-plus randomly selected social media lab rats...
The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe is celebrated by many denominations. The Anglicans refer to it as Reign of Christ Sunday. In this re-post, Anglican priest Robert Cooke writes about one meaning of the feast for today....
The end of autumn brings an end to the fall of leaves everywhere. Viola Athaide's poem looks at what one tree thinks of this....
