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A Palm Sunday Reflection with Saint Oscar Romero

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down as he celebrated Mass. A week later, on Palm Sunday,…
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The Smell of Smoke Essay

The Smell of Smoke

The other day I had a moment. Maybe it was the light, maybe it was the smell of melting snow, whatever it was it brought me back to my grandma's house. The moment came and went quickly, but it was enough to remind me of…
Jason Lief
February 17, 2017
Silence Essay

Silence

I recently finished reading Shusaku Endo's Silence in preparation for the film adaptation by Martin Scorsese that will be released on Christmas day. It's a haunting story of Jesuit priests in Japan during the height of 17th century persecution. Two priests are on a mission to find…
Jason Lief
December 23, 2016
All In Essay

All In

For the past five years or so Perspectives has been living on the edge of non-existence. Every year at our board meeting someone would ask the question: Should we just be done? We’re not the only magazine to ask the question. The last few years…
Jason Lief
December 2, 2016