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.
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
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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.
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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.
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For Jesuits (and everyone else), the people you live with can be the hardest to serve. But that’s what we’re called to do.
Members of the Society of Jesus have been called in recent years to see as mission territory not just our works out in the world, but the very communities in which we live.
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How Jesus defends Mary and converts Martha
A Reflection for Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.