Leadership

caretaker

Walking Home

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;...

University of Dubuque

A Tail of Two Cities

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything...

Group Discussion

When Ideas Matter

When Ideas Matter: Speeches for an Ethical Republic is a collection of essays published by Michael D. Higgins, who has served as President of Ireland since November 2011.  Higgins covers a broad spectrum of topics ranging from the Irish Diaspora and the Famine, to Culture, Economics, and an especially poignant...

Millennial Generation

The Millennial Crisis

The young Soldiers I first counseled as an Army Chaplain are in their 40’s by now.  In the early 2000’s, our discussions revolved around topics with a distinctive future trajectory.  Things like marriage or divorce, children, whether to stay in the Army or return to civilian life. Undoubtedly, the future...

Jeffrey Bullock with University of Dubuque Students

The Nun and the Boy

She referred to him as a mystic; some of his teachers thought he was day-dreaming. She told him he was a good writer; his rhetoric instructor nearly failed him. She noted the details of the boy’s photographs that I had missed; as she, too, was from another world. Mystics see...

The Raw Beauty of Ireland

Raw Beauty

  It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and apparently the British saw nothing beautiful about Cruit Island or Kincasslagh, Ireland.  We thank God for that. The land of which I am writing is largely bog, littered with boulders that are surrounded by heather, sand,...

Students In A University

Getting Invited To Dinner

"God, who gets invited to dinner at your place? How do we get on your guest list?" “Walk straight, act right, tell the truth. Don’t hurt your friend, don’t blame your neighbor; despise the despicable. Keep your word, even when it costs you, make an honest living, never take a...

Newspaper

Strengthening Reckless Minds

Mark Lilla’s The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics is a cautionary study for all of us.  Rather than an indictment of intellectuals in politics, he is more broadly examining how some of the most well-recognized philosophers of the 20th century—the smartest people on earth—so egregiously misjudged the ideological ramifications of...

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