Something to think about | To speak about finding God in all things is to admit that no doctrine, no tradition and no Scripture can exhaust the mystery that is God. It is to remember that our theology, our prayer and our teaching are limited in their ability to convey this mystery, and that as [...]
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dotMagis blogger Tim Muldoon has been writing an excellent weekly column at the website Patheos, which is devoted to “a global dialogue about religion and spirituality.” It’s full of interesting stuff. This week Tim writes about the royal wedding and the beatification of Pope John Paul II, concluding thusly: In our information age, noble ideas [...]
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Fellow blogger Tim Muldoon (see his post on desire below) has written an excellent article about what’s needed to help young people form the intimate bond that sustains marriage. Dating is passe. The hookup culture is the norm. Young people “stumble from one defective friendship to another without a strong sense of how to deepen [...]
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Tim Muldoon argues that Ignatian spirituality speaks to the postmodern sensibility because it prizes imagination and experience rather than doctrine and analysis: It is based on a personal, imaginative exploration of the gospel, and it invites people to choose freely to deepen their intimacy with God through a deepened understanding of who they themselves are. [...]
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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, [...]
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Tim Muldoon, who blogs here at dotMagis, has published an excellent article on sexuality and Ignatian spirituality in The Way, a journal published by the British Jesuits. Here’s a taste: To imitate Christ and to feel as Christ would feel—these constitute the method the Exercises prescribe for deepening union with God. They amount to a [...]
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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 [...]
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The goal of Ignatian discernment is to discover where God is active in our lives. Here is a simple two-step exercise to get started with it. It is adapted from a “spiritual warm-up” developed by Tim Muldoon in his book The Ignatian Workout: 1. Be quiet (turn off radios, TVs, computers, video games; close books [...]
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For at least five reasons, says Tim Muldoon of Boston College: it gives life a clear foundation; it sees God in all things; it shows us how to walk with Christ; it makes sense of suffering; and it hold up an ideal of social justice. He writes: To speak of God in all things is [...]
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