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Article: Thomas D. Zlatic on Walter J. Ong, S.J. (REVIEW ESSAY) - Thomas D. Zlatic has published a beautiful essay about the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955): 'The Articulate Self in a Particulate World: The Ins and Outs of Ong' in the book Language, Culture, and Identity: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong, S.J. (Hampton Press, 2011, pp. 7-29).

Article: Martin Luther King's Voice Summons Us Still (REVIEW ESSAY) - Martin Luther King's prophetic voice summons us still today as we work to digest the recent 6-to-3 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court about the practice of affirmative action in the admissions policies of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

Article: Gary Dorrien on Martin Luther King, Jr. (REVIEW ESSAY) - The Reverend Dr. Gary Dorrien (born in 1952; Ph.D. in theology, Union Graduate School, 1989), a white Episcopal priest, has written a deeply contextualizing book about the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968; Ph.D. in theology, Boston University, 1955), a black Baptist pastor and social activist, and the black social gospel tradition in which he grew up.

Article: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Walter J. Ong, Jr. (REVIEW ESSAY) - The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968; Ph.D. in theology, Boston University, 1955) and the Reverend Dr. Walter J. Ong, Jr. (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) were prophetic voices, each in his own distinctive way. Even though neither man discussed the other's work, I show here one way to connect certain aspects of their thought that I hope may be helpful in our contemporary American culture.

Article: A. E. Orobator, S.J., on Vatican II in Africa (REVIEW ESSAY) - Because I am interested in Africa, I want to highlight here the Nigerian Jesuit theologian A. E. Orobator's 'The Impact, Reception, and Implementation of Vatican II in Africa' in the new 800-page 2023 book The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, edited by the lay Catholic theologians Catherine E. Clifford of Saint Paul University in Ottawa and Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University in Philadelphia (pp. 657-675).