About the Author: Brendan Gottschall, SJ
Brendan Gottschall, SJ is a scholastic of the East Coast province of the Society of Jesus. He currently resides in Baltimore, MD, and teaches classics, theology, and economics at Loyola Blakefield. His passions include Irish culture, orthodoxy, and explaining how South Jersey is distinct from North Jersey. This article first appeared in The Jesuit Post (see thejesuitpost.org) and is reprinted here with the kind permission of the editor.