In today's post, Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ considers water. "Water, the stuff of stories, legend, and faith: its strength and power in stories like Herbert's intriguing Dune series; its mystery in the Aegean with Odysseus steering his one mast craft searching for home; its vastness of oceans, harbours and tides in the search for the fated Bismarck; its sacredness in The Reed Sea, the Jordan River, and the Sea of Galilee of scripture."...
In the second in a three part series, John D. O'Brien, SJ, interviews Canadian Jesuits who took their vows in August 2015. Today he interviews Brook Stacey, SJ....
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 Matthew....
In this article, originally posted in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), Dan Everson, SJ looks at some of the origins of religious extremism and his own relation to extremism....
In the first in a three part series, John D. O'Brien, SJ, interviews Canadian Jesuits who took their vows in August 2015. Today he interviews Matthew Hendzel, SJ....
The November Apostleship of Prayer Evangelization intention is about the Pastors of the Church. Bill Robins, SJ writes about some of the forms of pastoral ministry and the duties of Pastors....
In British Columbia, which has some of the toughest drunk driving laws in North America, the attorney general is aghast that, with one third the population, we have more distracted driving deaths than Ontario.Maybe that's because Ontario has already jacked up its distracted driving fine from $155 to $280. In an amusing touché, it goes to $500 if you contest it and lose, which should clear up a lot of nuisance court cases....
Erik Oland, SJ writes" "I have had a few intense conversations over the past year about charity and justice. As the result, I've been mulling over the meaning of these two virtues so important to our Christian tradition (and to the traditions of all people of good will). My 'mulling' has gone something like this: people tend to use the terms loosely, indistinctly, and forget how they relate to each other."...
Garrett Gundlach,SJ, writes about winning and losing in this repost from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org): "All my trophies as a kid were participation trophies – the kind you get just for showing up, no- even just for having your name on the roster. 5th grade basketball. 1st grade pine wood derby. I had plenty of opportunities to learn how to lose gracefully, just on account of how many times I was 'able' to lose...
Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. After viewing some of Salgado's photos of the 1984 Sahel drought in Africa, Jason Vaz, SJ wrote today's poem.Some of the photos are posted following the poem....
