Steve Jobs ended his 2005 Stanford commencement speech by urging his audience quot Stay hungry Stay foolish quot For Jobs remaining hungry and foolish was the path to authenticity It was the way to live a life that in his words didn 39 t rely on the results of another 39 s thinking nbsp
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including America, Commonweal, and the Wall Street Journal. The Catholic Press Association named his September 2012 essay "Help Their Unbelief," published in America, as the "best essay" in the category of national general interest magazine for 2012. He is the author of the book Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press 2016).Articles:Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015)Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013)Help Their Unbelief (Sept. 10, 2012)Posts at The Ignatian Educator
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Into the Breach of Faith
Yesterday 39 s reading marking the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception was the same reading we hear on the Solemnity of the Annunciation It 39 s of the dramatic moment where the angel Gabriel comes to Mary to tell her that she will bear Jesus nbsp Of all the things we might say about this fam
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The Terrifying First Christmas
December brings concerns about the commercialism of Christmas, along with invocations to return to the day’s “true meaning.”
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A Must-Read from Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia 39 s outstanding essay on the condition of Catholic literature published in the latest issue of First Things is now available to non-subscribers I blogged about it here last week and encourage readers to head over to First Things to read it in full nbsp His essay titled quot The Cat
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The Best Books of 2013
The editors of the New York Times Book Review have released their list of the 10 best books of 2013 which includes 5 selections for both fiction and non-fiction I 39 m happy to see two of my favorite authors on the list Chimamanda Adichie and Donna Tartt At nytimes com the editors provide a sho
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Signs of Excellence
Over the last few weeks I 39 ve been speaking with a number of parents about the school where I work Xavier College Preparatory in Palm Desert CA and about the qualities that attract families Education is filled with competing theories and methods and approaches and it can be difficult to dec
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Our Advent Venturing
In the middle of my third year in law school when I was starting to stress over the bar exam and all the things that still had to get done before I could start my career I read words from Cardinal John Henry Newman that rattled the panes of my soul nbsp nbsp The words are from his sermon quot
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Life as Pilgrim
At Thanksgiving we hear often about the Pilgrims We recall their arrival in the New World and their interaction with Native Americans Thinking of that group of pilgrims has led me this week to return to the idea of the pilgrim in the context of our Catholic faith and to consider the motif of the
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Teaching as Divine Imitation
One of my favorite thinkers is the great Catholic French philosopher Etienne Gilson His work nbsp The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy so crucial to Thomas Merton 39 s turn to Catholicism has become a milepost for my own faith development So too his God and Philosophy which I first read as a seni
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Save the Lecture
Teachers today are frequently told to avoid lecture for more project-based learning The catchphrase of the era is that teachers should move from being the quot sage on the stage quot to the quot guide on the side quot Teachers are urged to be quot learning designers quot or quot learning fa