Alex Placke, SJ is a Jesuit scholastic working on a degree at University College, London, England.
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Thomas Covenant has the choice of responding to his own imperfections "with either despair or hope and pardoning joy." How do we respond when confronted with our limitations? This article was originally posted in The Jesuit Post....
Selfie!" It's a word that transcends languages and space, and I've heard it a lot this past year while travelling around the tourist sites of Europe. The word resounds off the gothic walls of Parliament Square in London, the piazzas in Rome and the city centers of Spain.Has the world become narcissistic? Is this a sign that people have become so egocentric that they only care about taking pictures of themselves? Maybe it's true, and maybe the selfie culture is as evil as many people seem to think it is." Alex Placke, SJ's post on "selfies" was originally published in The Jesuit post (thejesuitpost.org)...
I am a pretty restless person. Anyone that knows me can tell you that I'm not one to enjoy sitting around all day behind a book. Although I am known to enjoy a full day of Netflix every once in a while, I always feel disgusting afterwards. Luckily for me, this past year I have had the pleasure of living in an extremely walkable city. Since the start of the year my feet have taken me over 600 miles (the equivalent of the length of the UK). Every step of my walks has been an adventure and a half whether it was taken with a friend, by myself, or with Spotify keeping me company. Here are five reasons why I think you too should try taking a walk every once in a while!This article originally appeared in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on March 30, 2015....
