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Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including AmericaCommonweal, 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)

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The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
My colleagues and I recently received student survey results from surveys conducted at the end of the Fall semester Reading these always tends to inspire a bit of unease as one never knows mdash even as a veteran teacher mdash how it 39 s going to go What will they say about me this time around
Giselle Ayala, 14, of Norcross, Ga., takes a diagnostic placement test at Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School Aug. 4. Some 160 first-year students took the placement exam at the newest Catholic high school in the community.
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Writing in the Saporta Report Atlanta nbsp Bill Garrett President of Cristo Rey High Atlanta Jesuit High School discusses the significance and successes of a Cristo Rey model school Sometimes we only hear about the problems of schools mdash high costs lack of measurable results questions of
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Matt Emerson
In the winter edition of Notre Dame Magazine Prof Lawrence S Cunningham the John A O 39 Brien Professor of Theology emeritus at Notre Dame admits to holding quot horrendously old-fashioned views quot on what counts as a real bookstore then edifyingly regales readers with an overview of why
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Each year students check out in the final months of high school. Why?
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Matt Emerson
This Oscar season, considering the role of quality films in education
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The actor responds to President Obama's call for free community college
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Matt Emerson
Why, today, is joy difficult? Why do we need to be exhorted to it?
Fr. Robert John Araujo, S.J.
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Matt Emerson
Do today's students and faculty endorse the essence of what it means to be Jesuit?
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Matt Emerson
At her blog at the Catholic News Agency Sr Joan L Roccasalvo C S J offers an eloquent defense of Catholic education as well as literature and poetry An excerpt Our students should be encouraged to make solid and uplifting books their close and constant companions nbsp Reading and memorizin
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The Los Angeles Times recently described the growing field of neurotheology the intersection as one would suppose of the neurological underpinnings of religious experience Geoffrey Mohan writes Other animals have hierarchies organized behaviors even a semblance of norms Only humans have relig