What are you doing for Lent? Am I the first to ask? Ash Wednesday is only two weeks from today–a date I’ve been keenly aware of because I’ve been very busy lately putting together our Ignatian Prayer Adventure. This is an eight-week online retreat that can be completed during Lent and Easter. It’s a version of [...]
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Blogger Wayne Stratz found a book that helped his prayer life quite a bit. It helped mine too. And youth minister Daniel Haugh, who works at the American Church in Paris, has a suggestion for the starting the new year.
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Our newest blogger here at dotMagis is Becky Eldredge, a writer, speaker, and spiritual director in training who lives in Athens, GA, with her husband and two children. Becky has been active in ministry for 14 years, primarily in retreat work and adult faith formation. She is currently the coordinator of the Partner Program at [...]
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Today is the last day you can download your free copy of the new book What’s Your Decision? How to Make Choices with Confidence and Clarity. Here it is. We’ll continue to offer special discounts on printed copies of the book through August 15. Go here for details. You might also want to take a [...]
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Today a new blogger joins the dotMagis squad. She is Meredith Gould, a sociologist and author with a passion for blogging, social media, and, as she puts it, “making a joyful noise” (Psalm 100). Meredith writes a personal blog (More Meredith Gould) and is very active on The Virtual Abbey, a blog for modern monastics. [...]
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The Wall Street Journal admires the Cristo Rey network of schools. A blog you should check out: Days of Deepening Friendship. They’re discussing Tim Muldoon’s book, Longing to Love over there. What happens when Jesuit colleges play each other in basketball. The Jesuits open seldom-seen houses in Rome, including rooms where Ignatius lived. A business [...]
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The top 10 moments in the history of Jesuit postseason basketball. (Two of them involve Al McGuire.) NBC News profiles a remarkable community service program at Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Paul Lickteig, SJ, has some questions about Jesus. (Did he ever forget what he was supposed to do?) Michael Magree’s favorite sad songs [...]
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Ann Boyd on the benefits of the Examen (“It connects my seemingly irrational emotional life with the workings of God”). An Evangelical compares the Ignatian charism to Rick Warren’s and Bill Hybel’s (and Francis’s, Dominic’s, and Benedict’s). Running the Catholic numbers: Catholics, bishops, priests up; women religious down. Jake Martin, SJ, on snark (“the glorification [...]
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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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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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