Compromismo/2 (Reading/3)
Dear Professor So last night I went with my friends to this bar The same bar they’ve been going to for two years Drinking the same overpriced drinks they always drink Making the same chit-chat…
The Bonds of Smoking (Checkpoint/1 [Life under Occupation/2])
“I had my peaceful priorities Healthy habits I tried cultivating nerves of steel Or so I thought My Buddhist practice Gives me techniques for dealing with stress Like repeating one of the classic mantras or…
Share the Wealth with Jenn Reyes Lay: Organizing to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex
The United States leads the world in percentage of its population that it incarcerates, every 1 in 100 people is currently either incarcerated or on probation or parole, and the rates of incarceration have increased…
Leçon de français d’aujourd’hui
Un poème de Thich Nhat Hanh Ne dites pas, je serai parti demain, car je ne cesse de naître, aujourd’hui encore. Regardez en profondeur : je nais à chaque seconde bourgeon sur une branche printanière,…
Share the Wealth: A Road Trip in Pictures: Reconnecting with Nature, with Ching-Ting Hwang
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien Ching-Ting “CT” Hwang graduated in 2012 from the University of Notre Dame. She spent a gap year in Boston coaching rowing and is now a PhD student…
How Father Ignacio Ellacuría Saw Us
In regard to the ideal of the dominant old human being in the so-called North Atlantic and Western Christian civilization, certain features have to be rejected. These include its radical insecurity which leads it to…
Remembering the Salvadoran Martyrs Reading Group
Dear Friends, We have been turning over in our minds the following reflection from an interview with U.S. linguist and activist Noam Chomsky (1996): Closer to the explanation is your observation that they [Eastern European…
The Way It Didn’t Turn Out
When the Roman pontiff Stood at the Bethlehem Wall All he had to do was summon The courage and compassion To afflict the comfortable And comfort the afflicted And say “Palestine must be free”
Share the Wealth, with Katie Kilcline, Sunday 1 June
Katie Kilcline did a a sharing with us in fall 2012 about her two years in Nepal with the Jesuit Volunteers. Since that immersion in a Hindu-Buddhist culture, she has finished a Master’s in Social…
Share the Wealth: Rim to Rim to Rim
This Sunday Mark Cross and Taggart Long will share their peak experiences from last September doing a run/walk from the South rim of the Grand Canyon to the North rim and then back to the…