dotMagis blogger Tim Muldoon has been writing an excellent weekly column at the website Patheos, which is devoted to "a global dialogue about religion...

The World as It Really Is

Spirituality Jim Manney

A reflection for Holy Week: Those who really do know and love will . . . see the suffering of all the people whom...

The Danger of Excessive Spiritual Practices

Spirituality Jim Manney

St. Ignatius, writing to Jesuits in Portugal, about the problems with spiritual disciplines that he deemed excessive:The first is that God is not really...

Shabbat Shalom Redux

Spirituality Meredith Gould

It's Friday and with plenty of time before sunset, I dashed over* to The Catholic Community of St. Ignatius (Baltimore) to get these: *Grateful to...

What Does Love Look Like?

Spirituality Tim Muldoon

With Valentine's Day coming up I'm taking the initiative to get folks thinking about love. Here's a clip that I sometimes make reference to...

Attention

Discernment Tim Muldoon

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

Shabbat Shalom

Spirituality Meredith Gould

Note: I jotted this down in real time last Friday evening and didn't get around to posting it. Another week has passed with a...

Now the Work of Christmas Begins

Spirituality Jim Manney

The feast of Epiphany today brings the Christmas season to an end. To mark the day, here's a litany called "The Work of Christmas" composed...

Silence

Spirituality Tim Muldoon

The most basic spiritual practice is learning silence. Practicing silence is an act of faith precisely because one cannot know for certain that anything...

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