Jim's Books
Reflections
Not What You Expect
What does God’s voice sound like? In my experience, like nothing I was expecting.
A while ago I was having some very bad days. I had too much work to...
Ignatian Prayer
The Imaginary Boy
The other day I came across a passage in a novel that brought me up short. The book is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. The writer describes the thoughts...
Reflections
Taking Advent Seriously
Years ago, I gave up on Advent. It was hard to maintain the Advent frame of mind (quiet longing for the coming of Christ) in the midst of the...
Reflections
The Gratitude List
A friend of mine was stuck in traffic in New York City late on a summer Friday afternoon. He was really stuck—sitting in his car on a narrow east-west...
Ignatian Songs
Finding God in Music
There’s something thoroughly Ignatian about finding God in music. St. Ignatius’s spiritual approach mostly bypasses the concepts and ideas stuffed into our heads and strives to touch the heart...
Discernment
Except That of Knowing That I Do Your Will
In celebration of our fifth anniversary, we’ve invited our dotMagis bloggers to reflect on the individual lines of St. Ignatius’s Prayer for Generosity.
This is the reward for all that...