Author Erin Brigham, Kimberly Rae Connor and Vicki Rosen
This issue of Pierless Bridges, emerging after pandemic restrictions began lifting, appropriately celebrates the wide world we re-entered, with an emphasis on nature in many aspects — from human nature to our common home on planet earth. We were inspired… Continue Reading →
From May, 2021 through July, 2022, the Society of Jesus asked us to observe an Ignatian Year, specifically to reflect 500 years later on the compelling episode of conversion that St. Ignatius identifies as the origin of his choice to… Continue Reading →
Like so much of what we experienced and processed during the past year, our second issue of Pierless Bridges stands in defiant hope before all those challenges, illustrating how our communities have responded in faithful and intentional ways to the inescapable realities before us—the pandemic and the struggle for racial justice.
In the spring of 2020, University of San Francisco Faculty Union (USFFA) president, Sonja Martin Poole, asked Kimberly Rae Connor, the Lane Center Faculty Chair for Mission Integration and its liaison to the USFFA, to create a blessing that USFFA members could share before their meetings.
Among the most enduring Africanisms that animates African American culture is the concept of nommo, the generative power of the word. Derived from the Dogon people of Mali, nommo calls on ancestral spirits to bring into existence all that is seen and unseen.
