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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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The Spiritual Exercises are “a crash program for centering our hearts on God,” said Anthony de Mello, the famed Jesuit psychotherapist and spiritual director who died in 1987. De Mello said this in 1975 in a series of talks on the Exercises that he gave to small group of Jesuit spiritual directors. These talks were [...]
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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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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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A Jesuit Off-Broadway is Fr. Jim Martin’s account of his involvement with a theater troupe putting on the play “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.” The play has a compelling premise; at the behest of St. Monica, Judas is plucked out of hell and put on trial for his act of betrayal. Fr. Martin was [...]
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I’m not one to make new year’s resolutions, but because my calendar now says 2010 I can’t help but think a little about them.
I just finished a review of Christopher Jamison’s fine book Finding Happiness, which is perfect for those of a resolution frame of mind. Written by a Benedictine abbot (of Worth Abbey, in [...]
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Say You’re One of Them, a short story collection by Uwem Akpan, SJ, a Nigerian Jesuit, is Oprah Winfrey’s latest pick for her book club. It’s the first time Oprah has chosen a book of short stories (and Fr. Akpan is her first Jesuit author).
Each of the book’s five stories are set in a different [...]
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Here is a fascinating conversion story by a blogger named Webster Bull. The decisive moment in his spiritual journey came when he wandered into Borders and picked up a copy of My Life with the Saints by Jim Martin, SJ, the bestselling memoir about the author’s personal attachment to 24 saints.
I began attending mass the [...]
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Looking for a good book? Fr. Jim Martin at America has some suggestions for books about Ignatian spirituality and Jesuits. I’ve read many of them. Most recently I read David Lonsdale’s Eyes to See, Ears to Hear in connection with some work I’m doing on Ignatian discernment. It is excellent.
The Cambridge [...]
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