Voices
In All Things
Readers of this blog may recall my post from two weeks ago today about Joe Hoover S J a classmate of mine at the Jesuit School of Theology who was found guilty of obstructing a public thoroughfare during an Occupy Oakland march on January 28 2012 nbsp Joe was sentenced on Easter Monday to ten
In All Things
This morning in my class at the Jesuit School of Theology on ldquo Jesuit Priesthood Theory and Praxis rdquo our opening prayer included the following verses from Psalm 142 ldquo When my spirit grows faint within me You know my way In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me
Arts & CultureIn All Things
In his memoir novel A Million Little Pieces first pitched as the latter then sold and made famous as the former then eventually exposed as largely the latter author James Frey tells the harrowing tale of undergoing a double root canal without any anesthetic nbsp It rsquo s one of the most cri
In All Things
Most of us are familiar with some variation of the King James Bible rsquo s translation of John 1 14 nbsp ldquo And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father full of grace and truth rdquo nbsp If one looks at the orig
Arts & CultureBooks
William Carlos Williams rejected the poetic conventions of the time in favor of a distinctly American verse.
In All Things
The American Academy of Religion is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco this year drawing academic theologians and religious scholars from over 1 000 colleges universities seminaries and other schools in every corner of the United States and in recent years other nations for several
In All Things
The American Academy of Religion is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco this year drawing academic theologians and religious scholars from over 1 000 colleges universities seminaries and other schools in every corner of the United States and in recent years other nations for several
In All Things
The first helicopter flew over my Jesuit residence in Berkeley this morning at 7am by noon their drone will be a reminder to everyone for miles of today rsquo s planned ldquo Day of Action rdquo and 2 pm rally by the ldquo Occupy Cal rdquo movement on UC Berkeley rsquo s campus A general strik
In All Things
At the celebration of Dan Berrigan S J s 85th birthday five years ago nbsp Ad multos annos Dan at St Ignatius of Loyola parish in New York City singer Natalie Merchant performed a classic union song Which Side Are You On nbsp The song made more popular by Pete Seeger in the 1940s bu
FaithIn All Things
I spent much of this past summer in and around Denver Colorado first for a five-week directed study on the thought of theologian William Lynch S J for my licentiate degree for some of theologian John Kane s reflections on Lynch click here and secondly as part of the three-week ldquo Arrupe