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The Goldilocks Guide to Becoming a Free Thinker
Niall Leahy, SJ focuses on" two questions which might help us to find a secure footing on a shifting terrain: first, what conditions does the internet need to provide to facilitate fruitful exchanges? And secondly, how do we, as readers and authors, best make use of these proposed conditions?" This article is reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on April 23, 2015....
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Jul
Mary M.
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 post is from Greg Kennedy, SJ...
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Jul
Inside Out
Forget the big action super heroes movies of this summer - if you can. Instead take in Inside Out - a wonderful animated film from Pixar all about the five emotions ( Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear) that are in all of us. Want more? Read Jason Downer's article reposted from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) of June 25, 2015....
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On humanness – a poem
Today's poem is by Dom Bautista and tells of climbing The Chief in Squamish....
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Variations
Musicians, classical and otherwise, have often written music that is a variation on a theme or on another pieces of music. There is no reason why a poet should not do something similar. During a retreat at Loyola House, Guelph, Hilary Jenkins came up with the following "Variations" as she sat "in the common room for long hours looking at the surprisingly small) statue of Ignatius."...
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Jun
You Have to Read This Article About Social Media and Clickhole
Clickhole.com is a pop social media site whose articles are shallow, quizzes are arbitrary, and advice pieces are not relatable. And that is why I'm a huge fan of it!Clickhole is an affiliate of The Onion – the satirical news site – and like The Onion, all the content on Clickhole is fake. Yet, despite consisting of made up material, Clickhole carries the sting of criticism found in good satire.This article originally appeared in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on March 24, 2015....