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Matt Emerson

Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including America, Commonweal, and the Wall Street Journal. The Catholic Press Association named his September 2012 essay "Help Their Unbelief," published in America, as the "best essay" in the category of national general interest magazine for 2012. He is the author of the book Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press 2016).

Articles:

Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015)

Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013)

Help Their Unbelief (Sept. 10, 2012)

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Articles by Matt Emerson
The Ignatian Educator
Ranking Jesuit Schools
Matt Emerson
What criteria of excellence might best serve Catholic institutions of higher learning?
Mario Vargas Llosa at the Miami Book Fair International of 1985. Courtesy Wikipedia.
The Ignatian Educator
The Importance of Literature
Matt Emerson
With the new academic year underway I thought it time to dust off and share one of my favorite essays of all time About ten years ago in a quot best of quot collection I came across the essay quot Why Literature quot by Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in
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The American Way of Learning
Matt Emerson
Following up on yesterday wherein I considered the place of an academic inaugural address essentially a nbsp commencement speech at the beginning not the end of college I remembered a speech from Professor Jacob Neusner that was basically just that Included in Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeche
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An Academic Inaugural Address?
Matt Emerson
On the Ignatian Educator, the merits of giving "commencement" addresses to incoming freshman
The Harvard Yard
The Ignatian Educator
Building Souls v. Building Resumes
Matt Emerson
William Deresiewicz's 'Excellent Sheep' takes aim at the Ivy League.
Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate XII: Canto IV: Dante is accepted as an equal by the great Greek and Roman poets. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
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The Role of Non-Catholic Faculty at Catholic Schools
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson's latest on The Ignatian Educator
U.S. journalist James Foley speaks at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill., after being released from imprisonment in Libya in 2011. (CNS photo/Tommy Giglio, Northwestern University via Reuters)
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Remembering James Foley
Matt Emerson
At the Catholic Moral Theology blog Nichole Flores remembers James Foley nbsp the American journalist beheaded by ISIS terrorists It 39 s so horrible to write those words May God be with his family quot I did not know James Foley personally quot writes Flores quot but as a Catholic educa
Father Adolfo Nicolas, superior general of the Society of Jesus, greets his predecessor, Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach. (CNS photo/Don Doll, S.J.)
The Ignatian Educator
A Helpful Thought for the New Year
Matt Emerson
A helpful thought for the upcoming academic year from Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.
Regis High School (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
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The REACH Program at Regis High (NY)
Matt Emerson
How do we make an excellent, Jesuit education more available and affordable?
Senior at Virginia Catholic school prays for cardinals gathered in Sistine Chapel for papal conclave (CNS photo/Matthew Barrick)
The Ignatian Educator
The Curriculum of Silence
Matt Emerson
Inviting students to turn down the noise of news feeds, emails, priorities and presumptions.