Jim's Books
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Jesuits in Haiti
Six months after the earthquake, the people of Haiti are still in great need. "It's like the country has collapsed," says Fr. Wismith Lazard, SJ, director of the Jesuit...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Vatican Astronomer
Jose Funes, SJ, director of the Vatican Observatory, talks to New Scientist about his work and the relationship between religion and science.
Is the conflict between intelligent design and ...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: Wonder
A friend of mine, whose son was born with Down Syndrome, turned me on to Natalie Merchant's song "Wonder." I think it's a song especially about disabled children, but...
Ignatian Voices
Celebrating Ignatius
It's July, the month of high summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the month of St. Ignatius Loyola, whose spiritual ideas we celebrate here at IgnatianSpirituality.com. Ignatius's feast day...
Discernment
Slumps and Winning Streaks
Psychologists study a phenomenon called "disregard of regression toward the mean." This is our tendency to expect that extreme performance will continue. It's a common mistake.I've had...
Spirituality
A Postmodern Spirituality
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...