This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with Professor Amir Hussain, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University, about life and teaching as a Muslim at a Catholic university.
Higher Education
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What meeting John Wooden taught a Muslim theologian about Jesuit education
What we do as teachers is a sacred trust. Coach Wooden helped me to do that in my Jesuit setting.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
March Madness: Your guide to the Catholic schools in the 2024 men’s tournament
March Madness is upon us, and (as usual) there are a lot of Catholic schools in the mix. Can any of them prevail?
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: A Jesuit guide to making major life choices
At a live recording of Jesuitical at Loyola University Chicago, Zac and Ashley talk with Paddy Gilger, S.J., about how students (and the rest of us) can use the tools of Ignatian discernment when making more life decisions.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Life after globalization: What to expect for higher ed, trade and the environment
Geopolitical crises and the aftereffects of Covid are prompting the United States and other nations to find alternatives to globalization in education, trade and environmental protection.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Truth, justice and DEI: What would John O’Malley say about the university wars?
Can American society, which is so divided by questions of truth, goodness and justice, look to universities for a new consensus on these terms and practices?
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The End of Joy in College Education
The time is ripe for rethinking the assumption that the purpose of acquiring a college degree is to snag a job at graduation.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How a New Jersey college educates women religious from around the world
The mission of Assumption College for Sisters states that “through education and community,” the school “forms servant leaders who transform lives.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
John W. Donohue: an ascetic Jesuit and bane of Christopher Hitchens
John W. Donohue, S.J., an associate editor of America from 1972 to 2007, was described by one Jesuit on staff as “a living rule. Were the Society of Jesus ever to lose its Constitutions, we would need only look to him to see how our life should be lived.”
Posted inFaith, Features
Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and the Black players who made basketball history at San Francisco’s Jesuit university
Men’s college basketball’s finest squad did not come from one of the N.C.A.A. powerhouses of the past three decades, but from the University of San Francisco, where Bill Russell led the team to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956.