Dear DePaul Graduates, As we bid you farewell and you make decisions about where you will go next in terms of your life and career, I want to encourage you to choose wisely your response to one very important question: Who are your travelling with on your journey? As you think about what kind of job […]
This week’s featured purchase for the Vincentiana collection at the Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University’s Richardson Library features a mid-10th century French holy card featuring a Daughter of Charity serving the poor as an icon of charity. This is from a series of these holy cards that reflect the public and […]
So – no snow accumulation this week. I am officially allowed to wear white shoes (though I rarely choose to do so). And I took my kids to the beach over the weekend and they got tan instead of chapped. I think summer is actually coming and that makes me think of music. Here’s my […]
It felt like the whole season was on the line. A few nights ago I joined a gathering of DePaul faithful at Kelly’s Pub to watch our Blue Demons take on perennial power Duke on their home court in the 2nd round of the Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. As these things go, our group was […]
Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur. The questions abound. From Twitter to casual conversations, from news streams to classroom discussions, questions about a missing jet filled with innocent people roll out as fast as ticker tape in a hot market. How does a HUGE jet just vanish? Was it a conspiracy? What if it’s a terrorist […]
Over the summer, a group of our interfaith scholars headed to New York City in order to experience each other’s faith in such a way that we could move past any preconceived notions and actually grasp what the others believed. For most college age students, a trip to New York is all about the kind […]
As the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings circulated around the news outlets, the DePaul University community stood shocked and worried. All of the faculty, staff, and students called their loved ones, and checked up on each other’s family and friends. Coincidentally, the Interfaith Scholars had been planning for their Spring Quarterly Interreligious Celebration with […]
A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife Near-Death experiences otherwise known as NDE’s are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of […]
I am excited to announce that next week DePaul’s University Ministry will be holding their Winter Quarterly Inter-Religious Celebration! After holding our Fall Quarter “QIRC” which revolved around the theme of restorative justice and engaging one’s faith through a service-based lens – I hope that this upcoming QIRC will allow for a space where conversations […]
Orthodox Christianity is unique in many ways, especially to someone who has never experienced this ancient faith. One of the things that makes us unique is the way in which we worship. How one worships is usually rarely considered or is even deemed unimportant in many faiths, but in the Orthodox Church, the way in […]