Reflections
God Is Outside the Box
Do you ever imagine that your life is settled into nice, neat boxes? Here is my work box. Here is my family box. Here is my volunteer box. Here...
Ignatian Voices
The People for Others That Inspire Me
In 1973, Pedro Arrupe, SJ, changed my life. (I was four years old at the time, toddling around a backyard on the other side of the ocean.) In what...
Ignatian Prayer
Prayer Brings God into the Messy Rooms
When my son was in third grade, he was asked, “What would you do if you had an hour with Jesus?”
Depicted with smiling stick figures of himself and Jesus,...
Social Justice
Dude, You Can’t Fail!
My e-mail inbox is peppered with requests from Jesuit advocates on a variety of issues, often asking for me to take action. Ignatian spirituality promotes “faith that does justice.”...
Reflections
Lenten Meditation 5: Job and the Question of Evil
I don’t have an answer to the question of why there is so much evil and pain in this world. All I can do is encourage you to speak...
Reflections
The Gift of the Ordinary
Last week my 84-year-old mother was in the hospital. For days on end doctors tried this and that to stabilize her heart. What struck me was not the desire...