Tim's Books
Discernment
Adopting Again
My new favorite description of love is the willingness to enter a mess. It's a pretty decent description of the Incarnation (or kenosis for you theologians out there); it...
Books
Scorsese’s Next Film?
There have been rumblings about director Martin Scorsese making a film of Shusaku Endo's magnificent historical novel Silence, about Japanese martyrs of the 17th century. Now it seems that...
Reflections
Words and Thoughts
As I enter into an annual silent retreat with students, I am mindful of how great is the gift of silence. We think too much; we speak too much. ...
Spirituality
Brackley on Falling in Love
Dean Brackley, the late Jesuit educator who spent many years teaching in El Salvador, wrote a beautiful meditation on what it feels like to fall in love because of...
Spirituality
Day's Letter to an Agnostic
Dorothy Day's 1934 Letter to an Agnostic is republished in this week's America Magazine. In it, she writes about her own struggles with belief and unbelief, sounding this very Ignatian...
Discernment
Do Not Delay
The last straw which led to Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity was the voice of a child, playing a game in which he chanted "take and read, take and...