This year I did not head home for the holidays. Like the five previous years before that, I did not spend Christmas or any of the holiest of Christian holidays...
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“When people ask me what I do, I don’t tell them I’m a police officer,” says Anthony Campbell, chief of police of Yale University. “I tell them that I’m a cop...
Eradicating extreme poverty by 2030 remains the top goal of the United Nations’ Agenda for Sustainable Development. That ambition faces plenty of...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 49:3, 5 – 6Psalms 40:2, 4, 7 – 8, 8 – 9, 101 Corinthians 1:1 – 3John 1:29 – 34 Reflection: Healing from...
Midnights By Taylor Swift (Republic Records, 2022) Standing astride the pop firmament, probably more relevant than she has ever been, in Midnights, Taylor...
When I was about 8 years old, my mom bought a book in Spanish called Créalo, Sí Se Puede (Believe It, Yes You Can) by the Mexican motivational speaker Alex Dey...
I’m an anxious, type A parent in a host of unflattering ways, but for some reason my language use isn’t one of them. I swear a lot, and while I’ve made...
One weekend each fall, some 2,000 high school students from Jesuit schools around the country descend on the Washington, D.C. area to talk about immigrants...
For those of us working in ministry, it can be tempting to let the metric of success become a numbers game. We might create an imaginary equation about how...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 60:1 – 6Psalms 72:1 – 2, 7 – 8, 10 – 11, 12 – 13Ephesians 3:2 – 3a, 5 – 6Matthew 2:1...
