Ho-hum. Another day, another prophet of doom. Today's Cassandra du Jour is someone named Benjamin Strauss from something called Climate Central. Benjamin concludes that without an immediate deep reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, 1700 US cities will be under water by the end of this century....
This week's 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (23-31 August 2005) offers a timely incentive to read "Laudato si'". The Encyclical offers fresh comprehension of Katrina as an environmental-human-urban disaster 'impatiently waiting to happen again'. Michael Czerny S.J. works in the President's Office, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. In 2014 the Council was charged by Pope Francis to prepare the first draft of the Encyclical, signed on Pentecost 2015....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by Greg Kennedy, SJ...
I do, at times, consider leaving the Society of Jesus. Like when I hear a baby cry right at the end of the Eucharistic prayer, or unlock the doors of a neglected community car that isn't mine, or wake up alone. In today's post, reprinted from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), Eric Immel, SJ, speaks of what it means to him to be a Jesuit....
Bread, like everything else, has a history. It goes back 10,000 years, to when the first wheat began to appear in the Middle East, which led to cultivation and farming, to villages and towns, and eventually to the great cities of Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilization. . . I want to focus on the Bread of Wisdom and the Bread of Life...
I've posted before about ideas that are covered by Fast Company magazine. The June 2015 issue looks at some of the most creative people in business. Robert Saflan, the Editor, offers twenty lessons of creativity. They aren't restricted to the business world. I offer them and add my own reflections, adapting them for a Christian-based approach to creative energy. That's a slight challenge in a few cases. Perhaps you can use your own creativity to apply some of his lessons to your world....
In this article, reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) April 21, 2015, Damian Torres-Botekki, SJ, take an honest look at obesity and what it means for his life....
Inspired by the igNation series of articles about English Canadian Jesuit cities, Fr. Bill Robins, SJ writes about his own city - Kathmandu , Nepal where he has lived and worked for almost forty years....
If you were to go to the Holy Land, you could visit the Mount of the Beatitudes and see the geographic setting of the Sermon on the Mount. If you were to turn also to a Bible, especially one with paragraph headings, like the Good News Bible, you would find, not a sermon but a collection of teachings: Teaching about the Law, Teaching about Anger, Teaching about Adultery, Teaching about Divorce, Teaching about Vows, Teaching about Revenge, Teaching about Charity, Teaching about Prayer, Teaching about Fasting– three chapters (5, 6, and 7) filled with teachings....
