Examen

Lunchtime Examen

It's time to make some decisions about what you'll do to observe Lent, which is only nine days away.   May I suggest that you give...

Examen Book Review

The first review of A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer is up.  Meredith Gould likes it!  Read it here. While you're at it, browse through Meredith's...

A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer (Continued)

-A sample of my new book about the Ignatian examen, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, is available for your reading pleasure.  Click the image above...

Attention

Nicholas Carr asks what the internet is doing to our brains.  His answer: rewiring it for easy distraction.  He observes that the way we...

A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer

I've just published a new book. It's called A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, and it's about the Ignatian Examen, which has changed a lot of...

Releasing Our Captives

I like Phil Fox's Rose's column on practical spirituality on BustedHalo.com.  Recently he wrote an article about the Examen in which he quoted this...

The Examen in Advent

The New England Jesuits have published an excellent podcast on using the Examen in Advent.  This is the second of four weekly Advent podcasts with...

The Examen Is Good for Men

The evangelical blogger John Mark Hicks makes an excellent point about the examen: I think it is particularly important for men since it focuses on...

Using the Examen to Change

Aaron Pidel, SJ, thinks that this observation in a Times article on self-monitoring is right on the mark.  When we try to change we simply...

His Life Was Good but His Thinking Was Bad

One of my favorite characters in fiction is Konstantin Dmitrich Levin in Leo Tolstoy's great novel Anna Karenina. Levin is an intelligent young aristocrat with...

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