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Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including AmericaCommonweal, and the Wall Street Journal. The Catholic Press Association named his September 2012 essay "Help Their Unbelief," published in America, as the "best essay" in the category of national general interest magazine for 2012. He is the author of the book Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press 2016).

Articles:

Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015)

Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013)

Help Their Unbelief (Sept. 10, 2012)

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The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Educators must invite students to see vocation not as a job but a path to spiritual freedom.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
In the Wall Street Journal today a couple of items of interest for educators The first is a story about the lawsuit filed by the University of Notre Dame against the Obama administration concerning the contraception-coverage requirement under the healthcare law In quot Judges Push Back on Notre
Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe star in a scene from the movie "Noah." The film is one of several biblical epics Hollywood is expected to release in coming weeks. (CNS photo/Paramount) (Dec. 9, 2013)
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Matt Emerson
Hollywood producers worry Christian viewers will object to "dark and intense" Noah.
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Matt Emerson
The nation 39 s Catholic Schools recently marked Catholic Schools Week and during the recent celebration it seems we heard as usual a lot about Catholic education in the abstract Commentators spoke of Catholic education in terms of large concepts -- character formation moral formation and of
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Matt Emerson
On The Ignatian Educator, Matt Emerson shares the "filter questions" he runs through when preparing his posts.
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quot I think most people mistake prayer with receiving an answer quot nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp - Words of a student of mine a sophomore when I asked him about his faith life
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An article in yesterday 39 s New York Times profiles the rise of courses in creativity the singling out of creativity as its own subject matter as something worth studying in its own right and not incidentally In quot Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline quot Laura Pappano writes Nearly
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Matt Emerson
The closing of Catholic schools is now commonplace forcing dioceses and parishes to find innovative ways to care for the students and faculty at the schools that are shutting down Developments in the Diocese of Cleveland offer one possible response nbsp St John of the Cross Parish SJOC in Eucl
Professor talks to students at Marquette University in Milwaukee (CNS photo/courtesy Marquette University) (Sept. 6, 2013)
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Matt Emerson
How can educators enable students to begin to see the parts that make up the whole?
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart at University of Notre Dame (CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
With its recently announced expansion, Notre Dame is making a dramatic statement about the nature and future of education.