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Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including AmericaCommonweal, 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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The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
The summer edition of LMU the magazine of Loyola Marymount University which I recently mentioned in conjunction with the Dana Gioia interview contains another very good article to which I want to draw readers 39 attention Matthew Fleischer in quot Techno Logic quot has nicely described the
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Fr William B Neenan S J a Jesuit professor and administrator who lived and worked at Boston College since 1979 nbsp has died According to the Boston College press office Fr Neenan passed away yesterday at his BC residence nbsp Fr Neenan was one of the most respected and beloved Jesuits
Boys compete in a canoe event at Camp Alvernia in Centerport, N.Y., the longest-running Catholic summer camp in the country. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
As readers know a few days ago I noted I 39 d be blogging about Jennifer Senior 39 s book All Joy and No Fun The Paradox of Modern Parenthood I didn 39 t want to characterize it formally as a quot book club discussion quot because that requires an orderliness that my brain doesn 39 t follo
(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Turns out homework help isn't all that helpful after all.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
What influences men to enter the priesthood How does college impact this decision Thanks to a new report issued by Boston College h t Tim Muldoon we now have a lot of data on this question nbsp Boston College has issued its summary report of the 2013 Summit on Vocations to the Priesthood Thi
A mother helps her son dry off after a dip in the pool in the summer of 2012 in Fairport, N.Y. (CNS photo/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson invites readers to join an informal book club on the Ignatian Educator this week to discuss Jennifer Senior's 'All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.'
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Not long ago astronomers made a huge claim about evidence verifying the quot Big Bang quot Scientists connected with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced they had detected gravitational waves from the earliest moments of the universe when it was only fractions of a second o
Veronica Royal teaches iconography at her parish and home, promoting an ancient craft and infusing students with a sense of sacred art. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
How would the culture be different if we emphasized art as much as we do math?
Billy Graham in June 1994. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
In 1998, the celebrity evangelist addressed a conference to speak about technology and religion.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Lots of criticism is pouring in over the decision issued in Vergara v California in which Superior Court Judge Rolf M Treu struck down five California statutes regulating the quot tenure system quot for California public school teachers In a blog post at the New York Review of Books website N