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 John D. O'Brien, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic who is an instructor at Corpus Christi College in Vancouver....
In 2012, David O. Russell's romantic comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" won the hearts of many and an Academy Award for Jennifer Lawrence. What possible connection could there be between that movie and Quentin Tarantino's violent "Django"?...
On this poetry Tuesday, in "Anatomy of a Mystery", Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ writes about a very painful illness and how, even in misery, one becomes aware of something special....
Tuesdays are poetry day at igNation. Today's poem - "a calling" is by Monty Williams, SJ...
The path through which many people find a sense of the divine is through nature. Fr. John McCarthy, a Canadian Jesuit, offers a series of reflections on the way he has come to an intimate knowledge of the divine in Do Monkeys Go To Heaven? (just published by Novalis). Full disclosure: McCarthy and I are both natives of St. John's, Newfoundland, and live in the same Jesuit community. Of course I'm going to recommend the book!...
Tuesday is poetry day at igNation. Today's poem - "the silence of the day" - is by Monty Williams, SJ...
This week's poem is by Viola Athaide, a student in the Windows of Theology program at Regis College, Toronto. She currently teaches Scripture at her local parish church....
Now you are continuing on to read its first sentence. Before you go any further, stop and ask yourself what are the chances that you will read every sentence of this blog article, right through to the end, without checking your email, looking at Facebook, texting a friend, following a hyperlink, or interrupting in any other similar way. If you are like me and are honest with yourself, the chances are small! How many online articles do we merely skim, glance at, or half-heartedly scroll through, desultorily highlighting random snippets of text?...
Tuesdays are poetry days on igNation. "news of the death of a child" by Monty Williams, SJ is this week's poem....
This poetry Tuesday, Greg Kennedy, SJ, write about transformation in nature in "Monarch Inside"....
