My Take

In a L’Arche community in Mobile, Alabama, Kimmy Smith ’16 learned that pain can be overcome even when it doesn’t go away.

A philosopher suggests that intellectual humility, which seems to be in short supply in the nation’s public and political discourse, can bring hope amid hate.

An alumna teaching English as a Fulbright Scholar in Malta finds cultures clashing at a Mediterranean crossroads.

In the 1960s, Margaret Grundstein M.A. ’02 lived a communal life in the backwoods of Oregon. Four decades later, she has learned that love is still currency.

Googling oneself is an exercise of quiet narcissism that many of us indulge in, I suspect. Google “Welsh Jesuit” — something I do occasionally — and there appears an engraving of a man with gaunt features and an enigmatic expression. Less ambiguous is the rope around his neck and the large knife sticking out of his chest.

Writer Amy Orr Morris-Young ’84 wonders whether it’s our DNA or the community surrounding us that shapes us more.
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  An expatriate reflects on the language of politics back home. In my late 20s, I fell in love with a Canadian and moved to another country — something life-altering that was both safe and slightly exotic. Canada, exotic? I’d…

A scholar finds wisdom for today’s problems in medieval texts.

A writer examines greatness and says it’s time for more.

I’m a writer, so I read. And I read quite a bit.