Jim Manney

Jim Manney is the author of highly praised popular books on Ignatian spirituality, including A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer (about the Daily Examen) and God Finds Us (about the Spiritual Exercises). He is the compiler/editor of An Ignatian Book of Days. His latest book is What Matters Most and Why. He and his wife live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Books by Jim Manney

Jim's Books

  • A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer
  • Una oración sencilla que cambia la vida
  • Ignatian Spirituality A to Z
  • An Ignatian Book of Days
  • God Finds Us
  • Charged with Grandeur
  • What's Your Decision?

"The Right Kind of Recklessness"

There were many tributes to St. Ignatius on his feast day a couple of weeks ago. Here is one of the best. The writer is Matt Emerson, a teacher at...

Jesuits and the Higgs Boson

Yesterday we noted a Jesuit connection to Olympic swimming.  Today we feature Jesuit contributions to particle physics. The Society of Jesus has a wide reach indeed. Writing on the British Jesuit...

A Prayer for the Church

Are you troubled by division in the church?  Frustrated by the church you love?  Pray this prayer along with our friend Jim Martin SJ.  (Click here to watch it...

New Thinking about Retreats

Mount Manresa Jesuit retreat house on Staten Island will close next June, a casualty of strained budgets and the enormous expense of maintaining large old buildings.  This piece in...

Discernment How-Tos

Spiritual director Teresa Blythe has a couple of interesting articles about discernment on Patheos.  One is a step-by-step guide to discernment based on Ignatian principles.  The other is a...

Review for Religious

The Review for Religious ceased publication in January, 2012, but this venerable journal lives on, perhaps forever, at a digital archive that has just gone online. The Review was...