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    Marina Berzins McCoy

    Marina Berzins McCoy is a professor at Boston College, where she teaches philosophy and in the BC PULSE service learning program. She is the author of The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness and Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Philosophy. She and her husband are the parents to two young adults and live in the Boston area.

    Learning to Surrender to God

    The familiar features of St. Ignatius’s experience with injury by a cannonball have to do with his learning to discern and to change his life’s course as a result...

    Regeneration Through Cultivating Joy

    One of my earliest childhood memories is being about two or three years old, walking along a Florida beach with my parents. My father showed me a starfish that...

    Storing Consolations Like the Flowers

    St. Ignatius offers us a key principle for how to navigate the ups and downs of life: use the gifts of consolation wisely. He counsels that in times of...

    The Continuing Gifts of the Resurrection

    This spring, I have enjoyed watching the birds come to our backyard birdfeeder. After a long winter, I refilled the feeder and within a day or two, enjoyed the...

    Lenten Read-Along: Why Should We Have a Resting Point in Our Process of Forgiveness?

    I imagine that we all have different styles for processing feelings, ranging from total avoidance to sorting through them deliberately and slowly to wanting to jump in and get...

    Lenten Read-Along: A Prayer for New Life

    Help me live into new life. Help me to unclench my tight fists. Breathe new life into my lungs, hands, feet, voice. These are just three of the petitions...