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Jan 9, 2025 | 
religionenlibertad.com | Randall Smith
Hace poco leí un artículo de una profesora que describía cómo, hace años, expresaba su entusiasmo en una reunión del Departamento de Inglés de su universidad jesuita acerca de un curso sobre poesía católica que había desarrollado. Experimentó cierta resistencia. Finalmente, un miembro veterano del departamento "que parecía hablar tanto por sí mismo como por sus escépticos colegas" anunció: "Alguien va a tener que demostrarme que ésta es una forma legítima de abordar el estudio de la literatura".
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Randall Smith
I read an article recently by a professor who described how, years ago, she was expressing enthusiasm at an English Department meeting at her Jesuit university about a course on Catholic poetry that she had developed. She experienced some resistance.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Randall Smith |Jeanie Hannaman
Pres. Joe Biden: “The Only Garbage I See Floating Out There is (Trump’s) Supporters”Catholic World News: Papal Abuse Commission Presents First Annual Report By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing, Oct. 30, 2024Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His latest book is From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Randall Smith
The fall semester has begun in American universities, and with it, anti-Israel protests and subtle, or not-so-subtle, anti-Semitic calls for the annihilation of Israel. Protesting has become a serious business, it seems (although not serious enough to interrupt summer vacations), and thanks to faculty pressure, it is unlikely that students on many campuses will suffer any repercussions for their ugly actions.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Randall Smith
By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing, September 3, 2024Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His latest book is From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Randall Smith
A Protestant friend told me recently that he heard a woman professor say that the Bible is filled with “oppressive discourse.” Some people talk this way and teach others to do so as well. Some even demand that Biblical language or discourse based on Biblical language be banned. (Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. would have run afoul of these people constantly and have little left to say.)How to respond?
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
cuinsight.com | Randall Smith |Opal Tomashevska |Darren Smith |Atm Usa
Measuring customer satisfaction — the degree to which your customers are happy with the products and services your company provides—is a persistent challenge that seems only to get harder. Four recent perspectives summarized below put a fine point on it: The data we gather is increasingly unreliable or incomplete; and getting it right demands the kind of sophisticated digital infrastructure that most retail organizations, including banks, simply don’t have.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
cuinsight.com | Lucia Mutikani |Randall Smith |Linda Lafortune |Bryn C. Conway
U.S. retail sales increased more than expected in March amid a surge in receipts at online retailers, further evidence that the economy ended the first quarter on solid ground. The report from the Commerce Department on Monday, which followed news this month of robust employment gains in March and a pick-up in consumer inflation, bolstered expectations that the Federal Reserve could delay cutting interest rates until September. Some economists see the window for lowering rates this year closing.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
cuinsight.com | Matt Richardson |Randall Smith |Linda Lafortune |Bryn C. Conway
News last week that inflation rose the month prior (after increasing in the month before that) wasn’t welcome for millions of Americans, but particularly for borrowers. Not only has inflation made the cost of many everyday products prohibitive, but it’s also resulted in higher interest rates in an attempt to rein it in, thus making loans and credit cards more expensive. And while those higher rates haven’t benefited borrowers, they’ve resulted in a great earnings opportunity for savers.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
cuinsight.com | Lucia Mutikani |Lynn Weirick |John Vardalas |Randall Smith
U.S. job openings edged up in February, though labor market conditions are gradually easing in support of expectations that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates by June. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, from the Labor Department on Tuesday showed there were 1.36 vacancies for every unemployed person in February, down from 1.43 in January. The decline in the vacancy-to-unemployment ratio reflected a spike in unemployment at the start of the year.
