This is a revised draft of a talk given in DCCatholic’s Summer Theology on Tap series on July 15, 2014. God is Friendship Good evening to you all. I first want to thank you for coming to this event and thank you for coming together. Among my favorite scripture passages is Psalm 133, which opens… Read More Beyond Networking: Fostering Authentic Friendships
On July 16, 2014, Australia lapsed into a relative state of climatic irresponsibility when it repealed the national carbon tax that had been in place since 2012. Although this may seem like an amoral intranational policy decision, traditional categories of Catholic moral theology can help demonstrate that Australia’s carbon tax repeal is actually a morally… Read More Complicit Down Under: America’s Moral Responsibility for Australia’s Carbon Tax Repeal
“Are you done now? Get up… and follow me now.” Slumped on the floor and crying, Peter looks up after Frank as he walks out of the room. Peter raises a meek objection, but then follows without further protest. When he enters the bathroom, Frank has already turned on the water in the tub. “Take… Read More The Reign of God vs. House of Cards: Why Frank Underwood Would Make a Great Evangelist
Today is the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (the “Jesuits”). The Jesuits are a religious order, officially founded in 1540 and currently numbering over 18,000 priests, brothers, and men in formation. While they are active in a wide variety of ministries throughout the world, they are… Read More Five Things I Learned from the Jesuits
The militant group ISIS, which invaded Iraq from Syria and began seizing control of Iraqi cities several months ago, has systematically persecuted religious and ethnic minorities, forcing many to flee. The terrorist organization imposed Sharia law this past June and recently prevented Christian services from being held in Mosul for the first time 1600 years.… Read More Standing with Iraq’s Christians – And All of Its Persecuted Innocents
This post by Brendan Busse, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. I’ve spent the past two years living and working in Jesuit higher education. In that time I’ve returned again and again to a simple question: What are we doing here, and why? I think it’s a question worth asking – in education and… Read More The Dirtiest Word in Jesuit Higher Education
On June 16th, a University of Toronto PhD student, Alexander Sodiqov, was detained by police in Tajikistan while conducting field research for a project on why western styles of conflict management were failing in former Soviet Republics. Sodiqov, originally from Tajikistan, was apprehended while collecting information as a part of research concerning civil society and… Read More Autocracy vs. Academic Freedom
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