Something to think about | We are challenged by Ignatius in much the same way that he was challenged by Francis and Dominic. And that may be the best purpose for books of saints: to have our complacency and mediocrity goaded, and to highlight our lame urge to go forward with the familiar rather than [...]
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Ron Hansen on Ignatius’s accomplishments: We are apt to look at Ignatius’s life as one of harsh discipline and privation, and find only loss in his giving up of family, inheritance, financial security, prestige, luxury, sexual pleasure. But he looked at his life as an offering to the God he called liberalidad, freedom, and God [...]
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“His holiness was unmistakable; he practiced self-mastery until there seemed to be no difference between God’s will and his own. “Eres en tu casa,” was his wide-armed greeting to anyone who visited him—“You are at home”—and all who talked with him left with the impression that he was kindliness itself: Michelangelo was so affected by [...]
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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 [...]
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“Faith and Fiction” is a wonderful lecture by Ron Hansen delivered some years ago and recently posted on the web by the University of Santa Clara, where Hansen teaches. If you have a liking for religious fiction, I urge you to read his novels Mariette in Ecstasy and Atticus. The lecture concludes with this: Writing [...]
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Ron Hansen is one of my favorite writers. I heartily recommend his latest novel Exiles. The novel tells the story of how the account of a maritime disaster in 1875 moved the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to return to writing poetry. The disaster was the shipwreck of the steamer Deutschland. Among the lost were [...]
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