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Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel's Oboe
One of my favorite movies is The Mission, a film inspired by the Jesuit missions in South America in the eighteenth century. One of the many memorable features of...
Education
Back to School at Cristo Rey
This week classes start at 22 US high schools that are part of the Cristo Rey network, an innovative and highly successful model for urban education. Cristo Rey schools...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: Livin' on a Prayer
This week's Ignatian song is the hard rock classic "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. It's about a working class couple "livin' on a prayer" as they...
Ignatian Voices
Administration as a Spiritual Path
People who work as administrators grumble about it all the time. "Another meeting." "Another performance review." "Another crisis." Yet administration is on St. Paul's list of spiritual gifts in...
Books
The Power of a Book
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...