Jim's Books
Jesuit History
Ricci's Map
In 1602 the Jesuit Matteo Ricci created a map of the world and presented it to the Chinese emperor. It was the first world map to combine the geographic...
Spiritual Exercises
Sexuality and Ignatian Spirituality
Tim Muldoon, who blogs here at dotMagis, has published an excellent article on sexuality and Ignatian spirituality in The Way, a journal published by the British Jesuits. Here's a...
Media
A Jesuit Off-Broadway
A Jesuit Off-Broadway is Fr. Jim Martin's account of his involvement with a theater troupe putting on the play "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot." The play has a...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
The Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian Work
Maureen Waldron of Creighton University thinks that Jesuits should make special efforts to expand the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises to include the lay people who work in Jesuit/Ignatian...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: Jesus Ahatonhia
"Jesus ahatonhia," our last Christmas song of the season, is probably the first Christmas carol written in North America. The title means "Jesus, he is born" in the language...
Sports
Jesuit Basketball
For many years basketball has been the top sport at most of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the US. An all-star team of Jesuit alumni could beat...