My first year at the JSC was marked by a lot of wide-eyed nervousness. I went into the Ignite internship spiritually and mentally drained by
Below is a letter a frequent participant in our Ignatian Conference Retreats sent in response to a fundraising appeal we sent out this year. Dear
I was having a private voice lesson one Saturday morning around my sophomore year of high school. At that point I’d been taking lessons with
There’s no boredom quite like long-car-ride boredom. Nothing-to-do-at-home boredom is certainly valid, but you can at least take a walk, go to a restaurant, or
If you could pick a pair of feet for running the same way you pick a pair of shoes, there’s no reason you would pick
I’m out of college. I’m unemployed. I’m unhappy. That was the position I was in March of 2017. Less than a year out of college,
I know how to talk to people younger than me. I’m really good at it. Super good. Commendably good even. It’s all because I have
I really love December. It has all the best parts of the year: Advent, Christmas, my birthday, Baseball Hall of Fame voting season (admittedly a
I haven’t done a lot of flying in my life. Once the Great Recession hit when I was in junior high, travel stopped being a
I’ve often said that I find the very idea of “debate” to be useless. I certainly know that people have valid opinions that differ vastly
Looking back and looking forward are exercises in which I have always found great comfort. There’s just something grounding about being able to review things
Today is a short post- in part because I’ve found that my mind has been in a fairly simple state lately, and also because I’m convinced
It began as one of those rare, special days. Not, to be clear, that any day on a grand, cosmic level is any less rare
One thing I love about being a youth minister is how the lessons we offer our youth are applicable to our own lives. Recently our
A goal of the IGNITE internship is to help in the discernment of its interns. Taking advantage of this time for reflection, I have recently
