Gozo’s Azure Window
The iconic Azure Window on the Maltese Island of Gozo collapsed on March 8, 2017....
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Feb
The Stranger Things of Friendship
The main thing that struck me as I watched Stranger Things was the centrality of relationships. Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
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Jan
What We Know – But Don’t Know That We Know
Grammar is about the last topic I would expect to trend on Twitter. And yet, when Matthew Anderson, a BBC editor, tweeted a picture from Mark Forsyth's book The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase, it received tens of thousands of likes and retweets. Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
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Jan
Some Thoughts About Silence
With a background in history, political studies and social justice, Richard Grover goes to the movies....
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Jan
Getting Out
The "blood and rubble of Alepo are the inspiration for today's Poetry Tuesday's post....
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Dec
God’s Grandeur
An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....
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Dec
Silence – A Film by Martin Scorsese
On November 29, Martin Scorsese held a private screening in Rome for his new film - Silence - about Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan. Tom Michel, SJ attended the screening and wrote the following exclusively for igNation....
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Dec
Ceding to “Convention”
Today's offering for Poetry Tuesday looks at what acceptance can mean in our lives....