I don't really like coffee. Once upon a time I would pass by a coffee shop and wonder how people could sit inside for hours. Don't they have better places to go? Then I had a conversion of sorts. I was living at the time in a Jesuit community just outside Toronto, but most days I traveled by commuter trains for work commitments in the city. I found myself a nomad in the city....
If you're having a bad day here on Earth, consider the alternative. How about a bad day on Mars? Applications are now open for people who want to be the first settlers on Mars....
Norbert Piche is the Country Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service for Canada. He offers some reflections on the current situation....
Business Insider has done one of those unscientific reader's choice surveys and on the strength of 2200 responses has determined the Best Fast Food in America. We can take that to include the rest of North America, because most of these epicurean delights do not require a run to the border...
Paul McNabb just passed away. He was the main artisan of the timber and log buildings at the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre in Espanola.Together he and Mike Murray, SJ put up churches in Sagamok, Mississauga First Nation Community near Blind River, Armstrong, Fort Albany, and the little Retreat House on Lake Superior in Thunder Bay. A trail was maintained with bridges built, over the La Cloche Mountains and so much more....
Knowledge is collected and gained and used through experience, and those moments change us. But growing into that change takes a long time. A doctor friend of mine says he learned a great deal about what a doctor does in medical school. But for him, he didn't begin to know how to be a doctor until a situation of life and death presented itself in the examining room. Damian Torres-Botello, SJ shares a moment that changed him in this post originally published in The Jesuit Post....
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...
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."...
