As the academic year winds down, my early wishes for a relaxing and restful summer. Summer for JSEA is usually a busy time and this summer is certainly no exception. Five hundred plus Ignatian educators will gather for the JSEA Colloquium on Ignatian Education, “Jesuit Mission: Sent to the Frontiers,” at Santa Clara the third [...]

Joseph Carver, S.J. Seattle Prep Zzzzst, da-da-dading, beep, a flash, vvvvbirate, a blinking light. iPhones, Blackberries, Mp3 players, we are all plugged in. We carry two or three chargers when we travel, we have phones that are cameras, and cameras that play music. Txt msgs are abbrvted, greetings short and responses instant and often un-reflected. It [...]

Three of the current members of the JSEA Board of Directors will complete their terms this academic year. JSEA thanks Meg Florentine, PASE for the New England Province, Dave Laughlin, St. Louis University High School and Vice Chair, and Adria Renke, Brophy College Preparatory for the dedicated service during their six years as members of [...]

Yesterday was the first day of classes at Boston College.  I love this time of year, and I love teaching at a Jesuit school (no matter what the ranking, which as we all should know should matter very little as long as we are working toward God’s greater glory).  I was reminded of this love [...]

I should probably cut myself a break. After all, it has only been six weeks since I moved to Baltimore (aka Charm City and legitimately so). Within days of arrival, I had boxes unpacked, books on the shelves and pictures on the walls of my new apartment (read: hermitage). By week five, I’d already cooked, [...]

Aaron Pidel, SJ, thinks that this observation in a Times article on self-monitoring is right on the mark.  When we try to change we simply thrash about: we improvise, guess, forget our results or change the conditions without even noticing the results. Errors are possible in self-tracking and self-experiment, of course… But once you start [...]

The physicist Stephen Hawking has published a new book, The Grand Design, in which he confidently asserts that the universe created itself–no gods required, as he writes in The Wall Street Journal.  Robert Spitzer, SJ, thinks this is a dubious argument.  If you’re interested in the science and religion debates, read Fr. Spitzer’s takedown of [...]

The Call of the King is a meditation in the Spiritual Exercises that invites us to join Christ in his work of healing the world.  Christ is a king leading an army, but he’s a leader who works alongside his troops.  He says, “I want to overcome all diseases, all poverty, all ignorance, all oppression [...]