How do you continue to “bear witness” when every three or four days there is another crisis?
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Does divestment evangelize or enable the fossil-fuel industry?
One option for promoting just business practices is divestment, but investing to gain a seat at the corporate table is also an important advocacy strategy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
Disney parks want us to escape reality, but real-world conflicts are sometimes unavoidable
Last month, Disney announced that it would remove the “wench auction” from its popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Some fans were not happy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ invites us to the land of the happy fools
‘Kimmy’ takes on everything about life that is hard and makes it all so much bigger and more absurd.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Want to keep your homilies fresh? Take a page from Louis C. K.
I’ve only been a priest for 13 years. How could I possibly be at the point that I am just recycling ideas?
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Francis effect on Jesuit mergers: Being more present and going to the margins
The consolidation is a work in progress. The brethren have mixed feelings about it, and their provincials know it.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Paris Agreement or not, ‘Laudato Si’’ moves ahead in the Diocese of Monterey
In parts of the U.S. church ‘Laudato Si” has sparked creativity and innovation with impacts not so easily set aside. One such experiment is the Diocese of Monterey’s advocacy of Community Choice Energy.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The extraordinary life of China’s Jesuit Mr. Rogers
George “Jerry” Martinson, S.J., was one of the most significant Jesuits to work in China since World War II and almost certainly the most well known.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
In California, prison chaplains wanted—and wanting
Given the number of those in the California legal system today who are Latino, “you can guess a large percentage of them are Catholic.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
“Twin Peaks” returns with despair, wonder and damn fine coffee
Our lives, “Twin Peaks” suggested, are far weirder than we generally care to consider, more ridiculous and more frightening