Reflections & Perspectives
Mind-Shifting · Social Justice
The news of Pope Leo's cancer diagnosis has come as a shock to people of good will across the globe. Even as we pray for his healing, perhaps we need to ask ourselves whether we have put too much of a burden on this humble friar.
Continue Reading →Revisiting the poem written for DePaul University's Interfaith Memorial Service three days after 9/11, and reflecting on what those terrible days revealed about our world.
Continue Reading →Climate change may strike the most vulnerable first, but recent disasters reveal that no one—not even the super-wealthy—is immune.
Continue Reading →That question came to mind when I read about the furor caused by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, KY...
Continue Reading →One of the most harrowing media commentaries about the July 4th Highland Park carnage debunked the theory that the suspect was a loner...
Continue Reading →Camera in hand, yesterday I went hiking in Starved Rock State Park, IL, giving my soul the opportunity to catch up with my feet...
Continue Reading →After I listened to Arnold Schwarzenegger's address to the Russian people on the war in Ukraine, I was struck by the power of his oratory...
Continue Reading →It has been almost two weeks since Russia did the unthinkable and violated Ukraine's sovereignty. The brutal, relentless bombardment has shocked the world...
Continue Reading →There are no words to describe the evil that Putin has unleashed on Ukraine, and, by extension, on the whole world...
Continue Reading →If the Winter Olympics in Beijing have anything to teach us, it's that nothing is as it seems and that gold is as ephemeral as dreams...
Continue Reading →The problem with celebrating the birthday of a great figure such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is that the celebration can overshadow the meaning of that person's life...
Continue Reading →PRAYER FOR 2022 — The old world is dying / and we who remain / are charged / with the blessed task / of lighting that sacred fire...
Continue Reading →As we wait at the threshold of 2022, many of us may be wondering how the new year will treat us and our loved ones...
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