"[W]hat will count . . . . "

I am reminded of this well known quote from Bernard Longergan SJ, sometime Stillman Professor in Harvard University:  "There is bound to be formed a solid right that is determined to live in a world that no longer exists.  There is bound to be formed a scattered left, captivated by now this, now that new possibility.  But what will count is a perhaps not numerous center; big enough to be at home in both the old and new; and painstaking enough to work out one at a time the transitions to be made."

I like to think of MOJ as a community where we are working to be that "perhaps not numerous center" that will count -- big enough and painstaking enough not to rest in the past nor to be scattered and captivated by anything less than the truth, which is neither left nor right.