A bunch of young Jesuits launched a new website yesterday called The Jesuit Post. Content will range very widely indeed. The first batch of articles include pieces on David Foster Wallace, parish masses, Tim Tebow, yoga, Paula Deen, the folk-rock band Hem, and health care reform. Editor Paddy Gilger, SJ says “this site is about [...]
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There have been rumblings about director Martin Scorsese making a film of Shusaku Endo’s magnificent historical novel Silence, about Japanese martyrs of the 17th century. Now it seems that the rumor may become a reality, according to Spero Forum. In a preface to Endo’s book, Scorsese writes perceptively about faith: How do you tell the [...]
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Fr. Jim Martin stops by the Colbert Report to promote his new book, Between Heaven and Mirth. Laughter ensues. (Click here if you can’t see the video.) The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Share or bookmark this post:
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I went to see the new movie The Way this week, and I can warmly recommend it. It’s one of those movies that causes you to ask “How can they make an interesting movie out of that?” Recent examples are Moneyball (statistical analysis changes the way front office executives put together baseball teams) and The [...]
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A couple of Jesuit editors have noted that the death of Steve Jobs elicited emotion akin to the to the feelings religious believers have for saints. Jim Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints, draws seven parallels between Jobs’ life and those of saints. One of them: He was the object of a [...]
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Our sister blog Picturing God: Faces and Traces of the Divine celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow. The blog has featured images of nature, people, objects, and places, all evoking God’s presence. I love it. Many of the pictures are extraordinary. It’s a daily way to experience finding God in all things. To celebrate, Loyola Press is [...]
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Yesterday the Loyola Press 3-Minute Retreat received its 10,000th “like” on Facebook. Try it if you’re looking for a good way to pray in the spirit of Ignatius. Here’s what Elizabeth Cruz in the Philippines says about it: Visiting your website and religiously doing the 3 minute retreat refreshes me and an awesome experience to [...]
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It’s time for what I’m calling IgnatiusFest—the month-long celebration of all things Ignatian that’s becoming an annual tradition here on IgnatianSpirituality.com. Festivities begin tomorrow, July 1, and continue until St. Ignatius’s feast day on July 31. We have a calendar called 31 Days with St. Ignatius which offers something deliciously Ignatian for each day of [...]
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The Jesuits sponsor some impressive websites devoted to commentary on culture and politics. The busiest is America magazine. Its blog “In All Things” is especially interesting. The editors have recently added a weekly podcast. The British Jesuits’ Thinking Faith has lively film reviews and articles. (They recently ran a very thoughtful review of my book [...]
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Yesterday I accompanied a group of 50 Boston College students to see the film Of Gods and Men (Des Hommes et Des Dieux), the story of the kidnapping and murder of the monks of Tibhirine, in Algeria, in 1996. (I’ve also written on this film here.) It’s a beautifully told and acted story: the film [...]
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