Tim's Books
Jesuit History
Giuseppe Castiglione, SJ: Aesthetic Missionary to China
What would it be like to share the Gospel not through words, but through a vision of what is beautiful? Giuseppe Castiglione, who became known as Láng Shìníng (郎世寧) during his 51...
Spirituality
Waltzing with God
Leah Libresco, a former atheist and a fellow writer at Patheos, describes in America Magazine how she came to appreciate praying the rosary:
Since I’m a convert, learning to pray...
Reflections
Marriage as Conversion
A member of Contemplative Leaders in Action, my former student E. writes a lovely blog, A Call to Joy. In light of recent news about the Synod on the Family,...
Discernment
Love in Hell
Rod Dreher offers a thoughtful reflection on his first read of Dante's Divine Comedy in his late 40's, discovering a wish that he'd read it much earlier in his...
Spirituality
When Love Becomes an Instinct
What would it be like to practice love so regularly, so faithfully, over the course of a lifetime, such that one's habit of loving becomes so ingrained into the...
Discernment
To Fight and Not to Heed the Wounds
In celebration of our fifth anniversary, we’ve invited our dotMagis bloggers to reflect on the individual lines of St. Ignatius’s Prayer for Generosity.
In his book Open Mind, Faithful Heart,...