Voices
John A. Coleman S.J., is an associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. For many years he was the Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His books and other writing have focused largely on areas connected to sociology of religion and also to social ethics. His most recent work has concentrated on issues of globalization.
Books
Michael Sandel wants us to think of ourselves as citizens, not just consumers.
Art
A new show of American paintings at the Met seeks to find clues to shifts in American self-understanding.
In All Things
I had the opportunity and pleasure recently to give a talk and attend a two and a half day workshop in upstate New York at a seminar sponsored by the board of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment NRPE NRPE rsquo s mission statement reads ldquo The Partnership is integrat
In All Things
Three years ago I helped organize a week-long series of lectures workshops even artistic events at Loyola Marymount University around the topic of ldquo Environmental Responsibility rdquo During that week we premiered Laurie David rsquo s HBO documentary on global warming Too Hot Not to Han
In All Things
I spied recently a notice for a new journal being inaugurated this fall The International Journal of Illich Studies Especially with the health care debate swirling around us it might be worthwhile to revisit the ex-Monsignor and radical social critic Ivan Illich I had occasion this summer to
Theater
“Equivocation” lures viewers into deeper considerations about politics and religion, truth-telling and family relations.
In All Things
Rarely in recent memory has a novel so captivated me mdash even hooked me mdash as Abraham Verghese rsquo s Cutting for Stone I knew the book was getting to me when I began to violate my almost stereotypical routine for reading novels Normally I read a novel each day seriatim for thirty minut
In All Things
ldquo Tell me what you eat rdquo the French gastronomist Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously quipped ldquo and I will tell you what you are rdquo By that standard Americans might be said to be as corny as Kansas Corn represents the central staple of American agribusiness American cattle fatt
In All Things
I heard South African Bishop Kevin Dowling speak to our Saint Ignatius Parish rsquo s adult formation session a week ago Sunday nbsp The parish piggy-backed off his presence at the adjacent University of San Francisco where Dowling was the recipient of an honorary doctorate and served as the comm
Film
"Goodbye Solo" deals with the human desire to help those in need--and the equal desire, in some, not to be helped.