Tim's Books
Spirituality
Brackley on Falling in Love
Dean Brackley, the late Jesuit educator who spent many years teaching in El Salvador, wrote a beautiful meditation on what it feels like to fall in love because of...
Spirituality
Day's Letter to an Agnostic
Dorothy Day's 1934 Letter to an Agnostic is republished in this week's America Magazine. In it, she writes about her own struggles with belief and unbelief, sounding this very Ignatian...
Discernment
Do Not Delay
The last straw which led to Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity was the voice of a child, playing a game in which he chanted "take and read, take and...
Reflections
Jesus the Layman
In his forthcoming book Catholicism, Fr. Robert Barron makes the passing observation that Jesus was a layman: he was not trained in one of the formal rabbinical schools, or...
Discernment
World Youth Day
Please keep the pilgrims at World Youth Day (WYD) in your prayers. I am at the Jesuit-run Colegio Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo with hundreds of young people who went...
Discernment
The Life of Pilgrimage
I am in China with my family on a heritage tour, a pilgrimage of sorts. Those familiar with my book Longing to Love know that my daughters are Chinese,...