Jim's Books
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: Wonder
A friend of mine, whose son was born with Down Syndrome, turned me on to Natalie Merchant's song "Wonder." I think it's a song especially about disabled children, but...
Ignatian Voices
Celebrating Ignatius
It's July, the month of high summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the month of St. Ignatius Loyola, whose spiritual ideas we celebrate here at IgnatianSpirituality.com. Ignatius's feast day...
Discernment
Slumps and Winning Streaks
Psychologists study a phenomenon called "disregard of regression toward the mean." This is our tendency to expect that extreme performance will continue. It's a common mistake.I've had...
Spirituality
A Postmodern Spirituality
Tim Muldoon argues that Ignatian spirituality speaks to the postmodern sensibility because it prizes imagination and experience rather than doctrine and analysis:
It is based on a personal, imaginative exploration...
Ignatian Prayer
Solitude in a World of iPad Apps
I assume that everyone reading this is immersed in the "always on" world of the web, blogs, iPods, email, smart phones, iPads, and other devices. Pay heed to Fr....
Media
Links for the Weekend
Jim Martin, SJ, on sexual abuse and the Sacred Heart.
How the St. Louis Jesuits changed liturgical music. (“One person credits them with wrecking the liturgy and the next person...