What is the message you’re trying to convey to the students with this last university-sponsored lecture?
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
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“The Path” offers a suffocating view from inside a cult.
Hulu’s new drama raises interesting questions for believers.
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When do harsh comments on Twitter attacking women cross the line?
This week ESPN released its own take on Mean Tweets, dubbed #MoreThanMean.
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Purple Reign: Praying with Prince
For a lot of us pop culture is our version of Ignatian daydreaming.
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Laudato Si’ University: A school of hope in an unexpected place
In this most isolated and unexpected of places, there is a university.
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In one afternoon Pope Francis welcomed almost as many Syrians as Australia has in seven months.
The Australian government has struggled mightily with the question of refugees.
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Why Central America keeps sending its children (and why we should let them)
“She got involved in a dark, dark world without asking for it and without deserving it.”
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Catholics: Will we succor the suffering or shout at each other?
How is the Kingdom brought closer to the here and now by name-calling?
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Your brain on prayer: what science says about happiness, prayer and neural development
We can forge new paths for the Holy Spirit to travel.
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‘Batman vs. Superman’: What a nightmare feels like
Zack Snyder just can’t seem to help himself; he’s not interested in people, but in destruction.