Tola Rotimi Abraham is from Lagos, Nigeria. She writes this, her debut novel, with one foot placed in the intimate and communal confines of Lagos and the other inside her characters’ heads.
Erika Rasmussen
Erika Rasmussen is a Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J., Postgraduate Media Fellow at America.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘I am very grateful I taught girls’: teaching theology at a Jesuit school for young women
A graduate of Regis Jesuit High School in Denver interviews her former theology teacher on her experiences in and out of the classroom.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
Finished Laudato Si’? Now watch, read and listen to this.
Here are our recommendations for literature, music, podcasts and art to further deepen your own loving relationship with God’s magnificent, interconnected creation.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I grew up in the shadow of the Columbine and Aurora shootings. How can I hold the horror of another Colorado massacre?
My generation has never known what it is to exist without the possibility of death by firearms at school, at the movies.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Should the Catholic Church have an African-American rite? This Black Catholic convert thinks so.
After growing up Baptist, Nate Tinner-Williams became a Roman Catholic in December 2019. Now, after a move to New Orleans, he is planning to enter the seminary of the Josephites.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Searching for Beauty—and God—in the Age of Instagram
At the same time I haven’t been recognizing beauty every time it is before me, I also haven’t been recognizing God. What if those disconnects are related?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem revealed God—through its beauty
Amanda Gorman’s poem was like a lighting flash that spoke to eternal beauty
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Trump’s supporters see him as a messiah. What does it mean for Christians to try and love them—and him?
What are we to do with the fact that the insurrectionists and presumably many more of President Trump’s supporters really treat this man like a messiah?
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
These 14 senators are all Jesuit-educated. But they don’t vote (or pray) alike.
They’re Democrats and Republicans, Catholics, Protestants and a Buddhist. But they all graduated from a Jesuit high school, college or university.