In Say Anything, Cameron Crowe’s seminal movie about love and trust in relationships, lovesick good guy Lloyd Dobler hoists his iconic boom box above his head...
Wise Guides
Wise Guides essays explore how saints and holy figures offer wisdom for today. In each reflection, the author connects a historical person’s ministry to our modern spiritual and moral challenges.
No story is faceless. Every action we take—every change in foreign policy or bomb dropped—affects real people. James Foley understood that. He died trying to...
One of the most vivid descriptions author Shūsaku Endō uses to describe his faith was to call his Catholicism an ill-fitting suit. It’s such a relatable...
As a modern Catholic, one of my daily struggles is figuring out how to live in the world in a meaningful and impactful way. Every time I approach the altar I...
Marshall McLuhan is now known as an unofficial patron saint of the internet, a communication theorist who predicted a linked world united in a global village...
Fred McFeely Rogers knew the value of television the first time he saw it. He had just returned from college in 1951 to his hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania...
He was perhaps America’s most beloved film critic, but that is not what Roger Ebert thought he wanted to be. The way Ebert tells it, he imagined a career as a...
In the spring of 1981 my family boarded a plane and took a 15-plus-hour flight from our hometown in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Lisbon, Portugal. I was 7 years...
The people of Capim Grosso, Brazil taught me to dance. Jesuit Father Dean Brackley helped me make sense of the experience. At the time I was a 21-year-old...
I teach graduate students how to teach math and science. On the first day of each semester, I ask, “Who can tell me something about Albertus Magnus, Albert the...
