Jim's Books
Reflections
Washing Feet
My parish did something different with the foot washing ceremony last Holy Thursday. Instead of the priest washing the feet of twelve parishioners (often twelve men), everyone in the...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Links for the Weekend
The Times profiles Eddie Siebert, SJ, and Loyola Productions.
N.T. Wright on the Resurrection and Ross Douthat on eternal life.
Vincent Strand, SJ, on baseball (“T.S. Eliot could not have been...
Sports
Doing Too Much
Sports columnist Joe Posnanski on West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins:
And then there's his belief that the worst thing a player can do is try to do...
Books
Ignatian Decision Making
I'm proud to announce the publication of What's Your Decision? How to Make Choices with Confidence and Clarity. This is a book about using Ignatian principles to make decisions. ...
Ignatian Prayer
Links for Your Weekend Reading (and Viewing)
The top 10 moments in the history of Jesuit postseason basketball. (Two of them involve Al McGuire.)
NBC News profiles a remarkable community service program at Loyola High School in...
Spirituality
Spiritual and Religious
Writing on Busted Halo, Jim Martin, SJ, makes the argument for embracing religious tradition:
We all tend to think that we're correct about most things, and spirituality is no exception....