Entertainment Weekly offers a preview of quot Exodus Gods and Kings quot starring Christian Bale as Moses For his 22nd film Scott assembled an IMDb-busting cast including Joel Edgerton Sigourney Weaver Ben Kingsley John Turturro and Aaron Paul ldquo When you rsquo re Ridley you pick up
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson is the author of Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including America and The Wall Street Journal.
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Have Parents Outsourced Themselves Out of a Role?
Matt Emerson invites readers to join in the ongoing discussion to Jennifer Senior’s book on parenting, ‘All Joy and No Fun.’
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American Military Unreadiness
No high school diploma felony convictions prescription-drug use quot large-scale quot tattoos ear gauges as reported in Miriam Jordan 39 s sobering article in this weekend 39 s nbsp Wall Street Journal these are some of the reasons that American youth cannot serve in the U S military In
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LMU asks: What’s an Ignatian Approach to Online Education?
The summer edition of LMU the magazine of Loyola Marymount University which I recently mentioned in conjunction with the Dana Gioia interview contains another very good article to which I want to draw readers 39 attention Matthew Fleischer in quot Techno Logic quot has nicely described the
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RIP: William B. Neenan, S.J.
Fr William B Neenan S J a Jesuit professor and administrator who lived and worked at Boston College since 1979 nbsp has died According to the Boston College press office Fr Neenan passed away yesterday at his BC residence nbsp Fr Neenan was one of the most respected and beloved Jesuits
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The Child Who Cannot Fail?
As readers know a few days ago I noted I 39 d be blogging about Jennifer Senior 39 s book All Joy and No Fun The Paradox of Modern Parenthood I didn 39 t want to characterize it formally as a quot book club discussion quot because that requires an orderliness that my brain doesn 39 t follo
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Judith Newman to Parents: Land the Helicopter
Turns out homework help isn’t all that helpful after all.
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Catholic College and the Priesthood
What influences men to enter the priesthood How does college impact this decision Thanks to a new report issued by Boston College h t Tim Muldoon we now have a lot of data on this question nbsp Boston College has issued its summary report of the 2013 Summit on Vocations to the Priesthood Thi
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Jennifer Senior’s ‘All Joy and No Fun’
Matt Emerson invites readers to join an informal book club on the Ignatian Educator this week to discuss Jennifer Senior’s ‘All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.’
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Intellectual Humility
Not long ago astronomers made a huge claim about evidence verifying the quot Big Bang quot Scientists connected with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced they had detected gravitational waves from the earliest moments of the universe when it was only fractions of a second o