From the category archives:
There’s long been a discussion among spiritual directors about the purpose of the Spiritual Exercises. Is the goal to help people make important decisions, or help them grow in the spiritual life more broadly. Both of, course. It’s a false choice. But there’s a third way to view the Exercises–as a spiritual program that helps [...]
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Fr. Jim Martin has just published a new book, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything. It’s an in-depth, witty, and very readable account of Ignatian spirituality, aimed at both believers and seekers. It includes chapters on desire and the spiritual life, prayer, decision making, and being contemplatives in action. Browse the contents here at the [...]
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I was inspired by this video by Greg Pierce, a Chicago businessman who is a gifted speaker and writer. Here is the YouTube link.
This video is part of an online Lenten retreat that is underway at the Days of Deepening Friendship website. Pierce has just published a new book The World as it Should Be: [...]
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A reading list of Jesuit classics.
Jesuits are pro-life.
Jim Martin, SJ goes into the recording studio.
Thinking about Matteo Ricci.
Suggestions for Ignatian prayer.
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Jeff Johnson, SJ, on Holden Caufield (and his brother Allie).
An America podcast on Reinhold Niebhur.
Jake Martin, SJ, on reality TV.
Jack Mahoney, SJ, fills in the gaps in the gospels.
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I’m a big fan of the writing of William Barry, SJ, especially what he has to say about friendship with God. Now he’s taken his message to YouTube. This video gives the gist of the idea. For more read this article and then read his book A Friendship Like No Other.
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dotMagis blogger Tim Muldoon has just published a new book, a memoir titled Longing to Love: A Memoir of Desire, Relationships, and Spiritual Transformation. Here’s what Tim himself says about why he wrote it:
It has arisen in large part from my work trying to understand and speak to students about the prevailing hookup culture, inviting [...]
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Commencement speeches are rarely memorable. An exception is a speech delivered at Kenyon College in 2005 by the novelist David Foster Wallace. Here’s a gem from a speech full of insights:
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. [...]
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This week Loyola Press sold the 100,000th copy of My Life with the Saints by James Martin, SJ. Very few trade books come anywhere near this milestone. Terry Locke, associate publisher of Loyola Press, noted in a company-wide email that less than 1% of all trade books sell as many as 20,000 copies. The 100,000 [...]
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Last week the New Yorker published a short story by Uwem Akpan, SJ, a Nigerian Jesuit who made the news last September when Oprah Winfrey picked his short story collection Say You’re One of Them for her book club. The new story is called “Baptizing the Gun.” It’s narrated by a Nigerian priest who wishes [...]
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