Imagining the typical college dorm room on a typical weekend is enough to make me understand why in various parts of the Old Testament God overthrows cities and sends down sulfur and fire shaking his non-material head and thinking in the spirit of John McEnroe nbsp You cannot be serious nbsp I

This post is based on a reflection I delivered Friday October 4th 2013 to educators from Jesuit high schools in Arizona and southern California The theme of the talk was quot The Vocation of the Ignatian Educator quot It has been condensed and adapted for publication Though I 39 ve just enter

In "The Ignatian Educator," Matt Emerson writes on teaching students to think philosophically and theologically.

Just days after I wrote about a California school district 39 s decision to monitor the social media accounts of its students a colleague directed me to a recent story from Miami Florida that shows in haunting fashion what 39 s at stake nbsp As reported in the Sept 13 2013 edition of the nb

Last week I visited western Washington to speak to principals in the Archdiocese of Seattle at their annual retreat It was a short but wonderful trip The diocese is filled with inspiring leaders who are synchronizing modern methods of pedagogy with the ancient heartbeat of Catholicism As we spok

Over the last few weeks I 39 ve had a number of conversations and written a few blog posts about the intersection of faith education and culture They are themes that are always relevant and yet supremely elusive As I 39 ve contemplated these issues my mind has frequently returned to a passage

In my last post I talked about the efforts of a southern California school district to respond to the threats harms or cries of despair that increasingly emerge in and through social media Talking about the district 39 s action offers an occasion to address yet another concern within the same ge

Amidst the questions and concerns over social media one school district is acting boldly nbsp The Glendale Unified School District just outside Los Angeles has hired a firm to monitor the social media accounts of its students According to the Los Angeles Times The district last year hired Herm

What is the role of Catholicism in the life of the Catholic school student What should it do These questions recently arose as I spoke with a colleague about our efforts to endear the Catholic faith to resistant minds Thousands of pages of ecclesial documents address these questions and most of t

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