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Patient Trust and Trees

Eric Clayton

Discernment

Consolation Isn’t Easy

Lisa Kelly

Discernment

The Ignatian Way to Lead

Gretchen Crowder

Examen

Expressing Gratitude Through the Examen

Shemaiah Gonzalez

Gratitude in the Life of a Catechist

Reflections Kathleen Butler

A few years ago, I visited the town in Ireland where my father’s ancestors lived. The cathedral there was built in the 1950s, so...

Finding God with African Djembe Drums

Reflections dotMagis Editor

I am a djembefola (one who plays djembe drums). I learned to play these drums (also known as talking drums) at the age of...

You Spot It, You Got It

Reflections Jim Manney

Recently I read a column in a Catholic publication that was about an important and controversial topic. Yet it was so full of invective...

Why Ask Why?

Reflections Lisa Kelly

“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,...

Friendship with God

Reflections Becky Eldredge

I maintain that God—out of the abundance of divine relational life, not any need for us—desires humans into existence for the sake of friendship....

Finding God in Relationships

Reflections Marina Berzins McCoy

As much as I love time to contemplate, at the end of an academic year I find that time is often short as I...

Discernment in AI Use

Discernment Gretchen Crowder

“Ugh! Not again!” I shouted, exasperated. “This stupid pop-up won’t go away!” “Um, are you OK?” a quiet voice asked. I jumped, having forgotten I was...

The Inconvenient Call

Discernment Lisa Kelly

A priest was obsessed about reminding parishioners to turn off their cell phones before Mass. He mentioned it at least three or four times...

Reviewing Mercy Examen

Examen Vinita Hampton Wright

Christians are called to show mercy and to enact, through our physical, ordinary lives, God’s compassion for those who suffer and forgiveness for those...