Tim's Books
Reflections
The Time Is Now
Somewhere nearby—perhaps a co-worker in the next cubicle; a friend across the room; a stranger in the chair next to you; a spouse beside you in bed; a child...
Spirituality
Behold
Back in my coaching days I learned to develop a particular kind of vision: I saw details of my athletes' performance that others would miss. This one slouched a...
Spirituality
Why Ignatian Spirituality Appeals to Young People
Editor’s note: Tim Muldoon, theologian, professor, and Ignatian author, is being honored with the Writer’s Award in Spirituality from the Loyola Institute for Spirituality. His newest book is Living...
Discernment
The Grace of Failure
This topic came up in class, and it gets better as I continue to think about it. Here's the thumbnail: the young Ignatius went to Jerusalem to imitate St....
Spiritual Exercises
Practice, Love
I'd like to propose a juxtaposition of two ideas that emerge from the Spiritual Exercises: practice and love. Without getting into too much insider baseball on how Ignatius's text...
Discernment
The Long Ride
I do some of my best thinking and praying while running or biking. This morning I considered how biking hills is not a bad analogy to the discernment of...