Editor’s Blog

February 4, 2025

The Burn and the Rebuild

L.A.’s wildfires took lives and burned homes, businesses, churches, and schools. They took a piece of our sense of place, too, leaving us to rebuild both our neighborhoods and our sense of community.

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January 8, 2024

The Long Road

The unrecognized voice in the night, the burning bush — the Bible offers multiple examples of sudden callings from God. But Ignatius’ journey to his vocation was a long one. We don’t all get knocked off our horse one strange day.

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October 19, 2022

Textbook Ethics

If you found your father’s 1929 Jesuit college textbook titled “Special Ethics” with his handwritten notes inside, would you recognize the man who raised you?

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January 21, 2022

Drenched

The United States appears increasingly engaged in internal political warfare. Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch asks, “What is the cost of joining the battle?”

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October 31, 2020

Campaign Melodies

Presidential campaign jingles have become a thing of the past. But when done well, they reinforced acandidate’s pitch and spoke to voters.

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September 28, 2020

Election Fever

Election 2020 occurs in a year that seems without parallel. (Take a look at special election coverage from LMU Magazine.) But when voters went to the polls in the presidential election of 1968, they cast ballots in a year of unprecedented disruption — riots, assassinations and nightly scenes of war on TV screens in their […]

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September 30, 2018

Student-Athletes and Mental Health

This past week, I had a second meeting with senior Keara Reilly, a psychology major who swims everything from the 200 to the 1650 freestyle for the LMU swim team. In spring 2018, Reilly came by the LMU Magazine office to let us know that mental health issues for student-athletes was an important subject that […]

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May 22, 2018

Kids’ Hopes

Some of the most eloquent voices heard in the aftermath of mass shootings are those of high school students. Their determination to make the political system respond is a sign of hope.

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