via American RadioWorks: In the New Deal era, educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune was called the “First Lady of the Struggle” for her influence on the Roosevelt administration on civil rights issues. On the eve of America’s entrance into World War II, she joined a panel discussion on NBC radio’s weekly public affairs broadcast… Read More Flashback: Mary McLeod Bethune on What American Democracy Means to Her
Meghan Clark writes: In September, I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time. Studying and even teaching about the Shoah did not really prepare me to walk through the gates. Evil, pain, and horror filled the air as I stepped on ground made holy by the memory of the innocent victims brutally massacred there just over… Read More We Cannot Ignore Christian Antisemitism
via the Jesuit Post: We don’t become Jesus’s disciples all on our own. Angelo Canta, SJ, reflects on how God works through the people around us to help us draw closer to the Lord.
Here are some highlights from our 2013 Millennial of the Year Malala Yousafzai’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture: And with Mandela’s legacy in mind, I asked myself: What injustice is the world overlooking? Where are we allowing inhumanity to become the status quo? The answer for me was very clear, and very personal: the oppression of… Read More Malala on Our Responsibility to the Girls of Afghanistan
Heidi Schlumpf writes: At a time when democracy is in decline and it’s difficult to imagine people coming together to even discuss the common good, religious people and institutions can help reconstitute the collapsed public sphere — but not in ways that many think of “public religion” today, said sociologist of religion Jesuit Fr. Paddy… Read More How Public Religion Can Help Stem the Tide of De-democratization
via Lauren Gilger, KJZZ: Fr. Paddy Gilger, SJ: There are huge changes that social contexts put on us as human persons. But beneath those changes, beneath the impact that our widely variant cultures have on us as human beings, there is something universal inside of us as human beings longing to come out. And I… Read More Our Desire to Be Seen and the Source of Another Person’s Gratitude
via the The Center for Public Justice (CPJ): The Center for Public Justice (CPJ) hosted its 26th Annual Kuyper Lecture, delivered by Rachel Hope Anderson, J.D. on the topic “Who’s Caring for Children?” on Thursday, November 16, 2023. Rachel Anderson presented on the unique challenges, possible solutions, and pathways forward for faith-based child care in… Read More Who’s Caring for Children?
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