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1996, Black matters matter, school matters, what to do, what to do? Praising and complaining.
Church Reporter: Sinful sermons
Church Reporter: In search of the perfect Mass
Church Reporter: Tips for writing better sermons
Church Reporter: “Sermons are too long, too personal, disorganized”
Searching God and literature for reasons of my own (as if I had that kind of reason), I found . . .
BLITHE SPIRIT Weekly Commentary Jim Bowman, Editor & Publisher Oak Park IL April 10, 1996, PART TWO!
BLITHE SPIRIT Weekly Commentary Jim Bowman, Editor & Publisher Oak Park IL April 10, 1996
BLITHE SPIRIT 4/3/96, Color-blind, religion-blind, politics-blind . . .
It was a dark and stormy day in Oak Park, Illinois . . .
BLITHE SPIRIT March 27, 1996, affirmative-action surgeon for your next brain operation?
Jesuits in training, 1952-54: Debating Joe McCarthy, walks in the woods, getting along . . .
The bishop who lost his way: Tuscany in the 1780s
Free speech in the 90s, More Honky Talk . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
A blizzard of likes from a gaggle of 20-somethings in an Austin restaurant
Free speech in the 'nineties, in Oak Park IL
The Man Who Could Not Pray, a believer and his journeys in the way of prayer
Chicago's Uptown neighborhood 40 years ago
Youth: a tale of the '40s told by an 11-year-old, signifying nothing . . .
Youth: a tale of the '40s told by an 11-year-old, signifying nothing . . .
PUTTING IT IN WRITING, Play-acting, "George Washington Slept Here"
DEAN’S LIST -- Taking secular learning seriously and wrestling with language: The literary life.
BOOK TIME! . . . The books they [were] a comin’ . …
Latin, Greek and all that as a Jesuit trainee 70 years ago . . .
“Sermons are too long, too personal, disorganized”
Immersed in Jesuit ways 70 years ago
Parish hears it from pastor via bulletin about too much talking in church . . .
Days of yore -- Being a boy in Oak Park decades past . . .
Read a book or watch TV -- Vonnegut, Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot
Triple play: From Gilbert to Sullivan to the digital monster to Seven Kinds of Ambiguity
Sunday in the park with Jim: Of dogs and walkers . . .
From God to books: Next step in Jesuit training 70 years ago.
Are You Open to Old Ideas?A randomly gathered consideration of the tried and true . . .
A look at Gissing, Ruskin, Stephenson, and finally, Richardson
I took notes over the years, and here's one about when God spoke to a friend . . .
ALLELUIA TIME for Jesuit novices 72 years ago. Christ is risen . . .
Short history of a worshiper's dealing with the post-Vatican 2 mass, in which complaints abounded
CHANGING LIVES We Jesuit novices of 72 years ago were gearing up for a life-changing decision . . .
End of first "week" with sin, death, hell, and a little bit of heaven tossed in at the end.
Jesuits in training 72 years ago, the long retreat
9-9-22 Morning meditation etc.
Sermon to be remembered amidst the hurly-burly
Jesuit novices 72 years ago: scrubbing pots, washing dishes, a month in Lake County
The house we lived in. A further look at being a Jesuit novice 72 years ago.
The Jesuit Novice of 72 years ago: a personal account
On joining the Jesuits 72 years ago
Professing the faith in time of Pius X vs. doing so in time of Paul VI and his successors
My friend Jake reads the newspapers, tales of the ’90s . . .
Loose Canon [sic] has Links . . .
Fr. Treco in the dock, Bishop Lopes declares his verdict . . .
The excommunicated preacher, weeks before the bell tolled for his time as pastor . . .
Preacher of Nov 25 homily, not yet excommunicated, meets his accusers
Yet more of the fiery sermon and the bishop who excommunicated its preacher.