John A. Coleman

Through what is a kind of fluke really I am regularly offered two free tickets designated for the press to plays at the Marin Theater Company in Mill Valley in Marin County I had written a review for America of the Jesuit playwright Bill Cain s play Equivocation My review somehow came to t

Tomorrow around the world in 168 countries and around the United States myriad events will celebrate a mobilization for addressing global warming around the slogan of a moving planet Sponsored by 350 org the mobilization and its events call for marches bicycle tours green fairs clean ups tr

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp One of the highlights of my past summer was attending a block-buster exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Steins Collect One is simply amazed at the vast array of Cesanne s Renoir s Gauguin s Matisse s and Picasso s in the exhibition The Stein

nbsp nbsp Some twenty-five years ago I wrote an essay entitled After Sainthood which appeared in the book Saints and Virtues edited by John Hawley and Mark Juegensmeyer University of California Press 1987 I contrasted what I termed nbsp archetypical saints the typical exemplars of

I finished this past week leading sixteen Jesuit tertians–from around the world and this country– men making what Ignatius mandated as a kind of intense nbsp school of the heart before taking eventually their final vows in the Society in a week-long sapiential or prayerful reading of T

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Any document after all is only just a document Words are less powerful than actual deeds or conduct Still some documents represent important catalysts for possible action On June 28 in Bangkok The World Council of Churches The Pontifical Council for Interreligious D

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I spent the better part of Wednesday June 15th in Sacramento lobbying with about thirty other people from around the state of California representing California Inter-Faith Power and Light We lobbied about three priority pieces of legislation which have already pas

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Some may just easily chuckle and say that it could only happen in San Francisco Yet there were efforts to ban circumcision in Santa Monica and a group entitled The Association for Genital Integrity recently proposed a circumcision ban in Canada it failed There