A Reflection for Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
America magazine’s Foley Poetry contest now open for submissions
If you would like a chance to join the list of new and veteran writers we have published throughout our history, please send in a poem!
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The Holy Spirit descends on a high school wrestling meet in South Dakota
If you would have asked me ahead of time, my hunch—fair or not—would have been that a gymnasium filled with wrestlers’ parents and fans, particularly in the western reaches of rural South Dakota, would not have a lot of empathy and patience for needy little creatures threatening to disrupt their earnest games.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
How does John the Baptist challenge us to reform our lives?
A Reflection for Friday of the Third Week of Advent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Covid, 9/11, Florida: I tried to find something to blame for a Jesuit’s death. Nothing stuck.
When our superior told us that Jerry Huyett had died in Florida, I realized, in a way I never quite had before, a very basic thing; maybe the most basic thing of all: Life ends.
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The power of Jesus’ mystical poetry
A Reflection for Thursday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
What the Lincoln Project’s flawed fight to defeat Trump can teach us about confession and penance
”I can’t say it’s not my fault,” says Lincoln Project co-founder Stuart Stevens. Really? Someone in American politics actually said that?
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What St. Paul has to say about the evils of slavery
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Accepting the suffering we cannot change
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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What great actors can teach us about openness to Christ
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.