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John A. Coleman S.J., is an associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. For many years he was the Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His books and other writing have focused largely on areas connected to sociology of religion and also to social ethics. His most recent work has concentrated on issues of globalization.

FaithIn All Things
John A. Coleman
Every once in a great while I chance upon a spiritual book which I not only delight in reading but also want to chew on and ponder prayerfully and save to share with others One such is Richard Rohr's 'Job and the Mystery of Suffering.'
In All Things
John A. Coleman
Jesuits are obliged outside voices might more easily say have the luxury for to make an eight day silent retreat every year I just returned from making mine in Seattle at the Jesuit University there I never know from year to year whether making my annual retreat will lead to dryness difficul
In All Things
John A. Coleman
nbsp nbsp nbsp The gospel for the 26th Sunday in Cycle B is about the strange or alien exorcist whom the disciples try to hinder because he was not they said part of us Scripture scholar John Donahue S J in his commentary on Mark notes The episode of the strange exorcist is remark
In All Things
John A. Coleman
nbsp Our Jesuit parish in San Francisco is renewing and re-writing its mission statement Our present mission statement is way too long over two pages and mingles without clarity actual and operative goals and what are still just aspirations Even though the mission statement is found on our w
Theater
John A. Coleman

America’s many festivals, indoors and out, stage the Bard.

In All Things
John A. Coleman
On the feast of Saint Bernard August 20 I am unlikely to celebrate his preaching of the Second Crusade Although he was ardent in fighting schisms and heresies in the church they were schisms and heresies so long now out of date that they do not much interest us today But he is also remembered
In All Things
John A. Coleman
On August 9 every year the church celebrates the martyrdom of the Carmelite Sister Teresia Benedicta of the Cross Edith Stein who was gassed at Auschwitz that day seventy years ago I put the term martyrdom in quotations since Edith Stein was murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish and on
In All Things
John A. Coleman
I just finished reading and studying an important book which is quite germane in the middle of an election-year campaign What Money Can t Buy The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel Farrar Strauss and Giroux 2012 Sandel a gifted teacher and political philosopher who teaches at Harvard
Theater
John A. Coleman

A survey of America's many festivals honoring the Bard

FaithIn All Things
John A. Coleman
I have been asked first to sit in meditation with a Buddhist group in San Francisco at the end of this month and then give them a talk on Thomas Merton and the dialogue with Buddhism Merton who early on in his career showed a keen interest in dialogue with the religions of Asia Hinduism Sufis