There is hope for public health officials angling to push people toward vaccine acceptance through faith-based campaigns and messages.
Health and Wellness
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Down with Zoom school! Up with mystics! The case for the contemplative classroom
How do we speak to a generation that, at least on the surface, seems less and less prepared for the difficulties it will face?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Do you love the church but sometimes hate it? There’s a word for that feeling (and it can be beneficial).
The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan explained how it can be healthy to sometimes ‘hate’ what we truly love, including the church.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Anxious about returning to regular life? 6 Jesuit discernment tips for the post-Covid world
We are all emerging from our Covid retreat and encountering sensory overload, writes Debra K. Mooney. The principles of Ignatian retreat and discernment can help us with the re-entry process.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Can we find real community online?
Chris Stedman’s new book is the perfect guide to unpacking what identity means in the digital age.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I am a Jesuit and I am an alcoholic
Going to A.A. was an act of faith.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My therapist was not a savior. But she was the faithful witness to my pain and resurrection.
I am alive because a woman spent years watching me emerge from the dead and refused to be afraid.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Meet your bicycle: the transportation incarnation of Catholic Social Teaching.
Bicycles are theologically sound. Ask Pope Francis.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
Meghan Markle’s life is exceptional—but her suffering isn’t. We should honor her bravery in sharing it.
When someone is courageous enough to share with the world that she seriously considered taking her own life because she didn’t see a way out, we need to honor that honesty and vulnerability.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
The contradictions of Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview
Everyone has a family that involves some painful history, and few of us would want to tell Oprah and the whole world about it.