Responding to Conflict
Ignatius invites us to focus continually on the person of Jesus and to follow his way; he is the one who becomes fully human,...
Prayer Is Like a Water Bottle
In my holiday travels I learned about prayer at an airport while refilling my water bottle at one of those automatic dispensers on a...
A Blanket Surprise
This year, as Advent began, I wasn’t feeling ready. I just couldn’t get into the spirit of Advent.
I talked with my spiritual director about...
Getting in Shape
I am not a sporty person. Bookish—yes. The kind of person who sings to musicals—yes. I was the kid with asthma and the one...
Grace at Rock Bottom
When I converted to Catholicism 15 years ago, a family friend mailed me a copy of The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor with a...
Health, Memories, and the Spiritual Life
What do inflammation, memory, and spirituality have in common? Quite a bit.
Inflammation is our body’s attempt to protect itself from invading pathogens. For example,...
St. Paul and the Call to Adapt to Radical Change
Paul had an extraordinarily active life. It’s exhausting just to read about his missionary journeys: the many times he was shipwrecked, persecuted, imprisoned, and...
Lenten Read-Along: Room for One More
At the heart of the Irish expression, céad míle fáilte, meaning “a hundred thousand welcomes,” is the understanding that each person that we meet...
Anna and the Call to Recognize What Is Possible
Anna (Luke 2:22–24, 36–38) is part of the Christmas story. It’s easy to overlook her among the many characters in Luke’s infancy narrative because...
A Week to Consider Mystery
I’ve never been a huge fan of Halloween—I was one of those children who scared easily and who did not enjoy being scared. But...
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