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The Gift of the Ordinary

Lisa Kelly

Last week my 84-year-old mother was in the hospital. For days on end doctors tried this and that to stabilize her heart. What struck...

Giuseppe Castiglione, SJ: Aesthetic Missionary to China

Tim Muldoon

What would it be like to share the Gospel not through words, but through a vision of what is beautiful? Giuseppe Castiglione, who became known...

Using Imagination to Learn to Let Go

dotMagis Editor

At CatholicMom.com, Susan Bailey wonders, “How can we hope to forget what we can’t forgive? How can we learn to let go of those...

Advice for Teachers

dotMagis Editor

While we know that not all readers of this blog are teachers, we do recognize the celebration of Catholic Schools Week. This teacher shares...

Mom’s Wisdom

Becky Eldredge

My mom always said, “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” This is a mantra of my youth that tumbles as easily...

Waltzing with God

Tim Muldoon

Leah Libresco, a former atheist and a fellow writer at Patheos, describes in America Magazine how she came to appreciate praying the rosary: Since I’m...

On Beauty

dotMagis Editor

Two old friends were walking down the road one evening when they began to argue. As they went along, they shouted at one another...

Imaginative Prayer: Breakfast on the Beach

Vinita Hampton Wright

This imaginative prayer exercise is based on John 21:1–14, the story of the risen Christ’s appearance to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. You...

How Coffee Can Wake Up the Spiritual

dotMagis Editor

At God in All Things, Jacqueline Shrader writes about the Theology of Coffee. Ignatian spirituality suggests invoking our senses and imagination to encounter God and...