Jim's Books
Spirituality
How to Live without Fear
William Barry, SJ, one of my favorite spiritual writers, draws on the poetry of Franz Wright and the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in this superb article about faith,...
Examen
Using the Examen to Change
Aaron Pidel, SJ, thinks that this observation in a Times article on self-monitoring is right on the mark. When we try to change
we simply thrash about: we improvise, guess,...
Videos
Spitzer vs. Hawking
The physicist Stephen Hawking has published a new book, The Grand Design, in which he confidently asserts that the universe created itself--no gods required, as he writes in The...
Examen
His Life Was Good but His Thinking Was Bad
One of my favorite characters in fiction is Konstantin Dmitrich Levin in Leo Tolstoy's great novel Anna Karenina. Levin is an intelligent young aristocrat with a powerful conscience and a...
Spirituality
Friendship and Romance
Fellow blogger Tim Muldoon (see his post on desire below) has written an excellent article about what's needed to help young people form the intimate bond that sustains marriage. ...
St. Ignatius Loyola
How Ignatius Recovered from Depression
Many people suffer episodes of depression. Ignatius Loyola was one of them, according to Joseph Munitiz, SJ, and we would do well to study how he recovered.
Ignatius's bad time...