Reflections
Choose Values, Not Sides
On the night of a particularly painful news story of a bombing in a UN-protected school in Gaza filled with refugees, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed to...
Reflections
An Idea for Meeting New People: What’s Your Story?
I stand at the door of the dreaded “networking lunch” at a conference. The feeling of isolation sweeps over me. I could make a thousand excuses for not being...
Reflections
The World Beyond Our Senses
Do you have any idea how glorious the world around you really is? Consider the multitude of gifts of our earthly existence that are far beyond what our very...
Reflections
Why Ask Why?
“Why, God? Why?” I sit at the funeral of a friend who died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Alive one day, gone the next.
“Why, God? Why?” Tornadoes flatten neighborhoods...
Social Justice
Lord Jesus, Teach Me to Be Generous
In celebration of our fifth anniversary, we invited our dotMagis bloggers to reflect on the individual lines of St. Ignatius’s Prayer for Generosity.
“I don’t want your charity,” the young...
Reflections
What Do the Pope and Dr. Seuss Have in Common?
In celebration of the release of Pope Francis’s book, The Church of Mercy, several of our dotMagis bloggers will be sharing reflections this month based on the words of...