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.
Joe Koczera, SJ on happiness. Some practical advice about the Daily Examen. Jim Martin, SJ on the patron saint of troublemakers. A Jesuit joke.
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.
Today we welcome another blogger to dotMagis. He is Ed Peck. Ed is the founding executive director of the Ignatian Colleagues Program. He joins Maureen Waldron, Tim Muldoon, and me as regular dotMagis bloggers. Ed will publish his first post tomorrow. Ignatian Colleagues is joint venture of 24 Jesuit colleges and universities that trains administrators [...]
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 [...]
I have been doing all the blogging at dotMagis since we launched the site in April. Now I have some company. Our new blogger is Tim Muldoon, a writer and theologian who works in the Office of Ministry and Mission at Boston College and teaches in the Honors Program. Tim’s first post is immediately below [...]
Vincent Strand, SJ, on Therese of Lisieux’s mission to modernity. The Catholic fiction of Alice McDermott in America. Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, explains why the Vatican has an observatory. The religious fiction of Uwem Apkan, SJ.
Lisa Kelly on cleaning the slate. Aaron Pidel, SJ, on so-called progress in human knowledge (“The most recently founded fields of study. . . often show a peculiar and youthful zeal for proving the obvious.”) Fr. Robert Barron on the sci-fi movie “District 9.” (“It explores, with great perceptiveness, a problem that has preoccupied modern philosophers from Hegel [...]
A couple of interesting new bloggers have set up shop lately. Convert Webster Bull writes the blog “Why I am a Catholic.” The title of each post begins with the word “Because” (Because Gerard Manley Hopkins Was a Catholic, Because We Live in a Dark, Dark Time, Because I Have Daughters, etc.) The blog is [...]