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I was looking for some information about Ron Hansen, one of my favorite writers, and I ran across an interview he did several years ago. I was struck by this comment.
The analogical imagination sees God within the world and somehow described by all of creation. And that’s a great beginning point for a fiction writer. [...]
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A documentary on the life and legacy of Pedro Arrupe, SJ, is available for viewing on YouTube. The film was produced by Georgetown University a couple of years ago. It was uploaded through the Jesuit Channel, a YouTube channel sponsored by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The video here is the first one in [...]
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As I gain some distance from my immersion in watching the Winter Olympics, I’ve been distilling in my mind the lasting impressions. I’ve always been a huge fan of the Olympics–it’s part Greek history, part supreme athletic comptetition, part incredible storytelling, part national/international pride. Underneath all the corporate sponsorships, the sometimes not-so-latent nationalism, the training [...]
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Jim Martin, SJ, on finding God in hard times.
An evangelical compares three versions of the Anima Christi prayer.
What Nathan O’Halloran, SJ, learned in 2009.
Jake Martin, SJ, on Crazy Heart.
Joe Koczera, SJ, on Alfred Delp’s idea of happiness.
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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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December 21 is the feast of another great Jesuit saint, Peter Canisius. Let this post represent a shout-out to Buffalo’s Canisius College and Canisius High School; Jakarta’s Canisius College (secondary school); and Berlin’s Canisius Kolleg (secondary school).
The Dutch-born Canisius (1521-1597) was one of the early first-generation Jesuits. He met Pierre Favre, one of [...]
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Nathan O’Halloran, SJ on Ignatius at the movies.
A new online Jesuit magazine, New Jesuit Review.
Robert Lauder tackles life’s big question.
Michelle Francl-Donnay on rough prayer.
Michael Magree, SJ on irony.
David Nantais rocks with Bruce Springsteen.
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I have been doing all the blogging at dotMagis since the site launched last April. To further our goal of making dotMagis an Ignatian community of many voices with many points of view, we recently invited several friends and colleagues to share their reflections with us.
Tim Muldoon, from the Office of Ministry and Mission at [...]
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The poet Mary Karr has just published a new book, Lit, in which she talks about her conversion to Catholicism as well her struggle with alcoholism. She mentions in a recent interview that the Spiritual Exercises were an important part of her spiritual awakening. That’s all the excuse I need to mention Karr here, because [...]
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Anh “Joseph” Cao got a lot of attention last December when he became the first Vietnamese-American to be elected to Congress. He was in the news again recently when he became the only Republican to vote in favor of the health reform bill that passed the House of Representatives. Cao is a former [...]
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