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Reimagine Me

Vinita Hampton Wright

Discernment

Would It Help to Reimagine?

Vinita Hampton Wright

Discernment

Consolation Isn’t Easy

Lisa Kelly

Discernment

The Ignatian Way to Lead

Gretchen Crowder

The Two Poles of Discernment

Discernment Jim Manney

I recently followed a link on this site to a 2003 article in America that expanded my understanding of Ignatian discernment. I knew about...

Adopting Again

Discernment Tim Muldoon

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...

Does God Have a Plan for Your Life?

Discernment Vinita Hampton Wright

I grew up in a religious subculture that was very certain about who God was and how God operated. Very often I heard, “God...

World Youth Day

Discernment Tim Muldoon

Please keep the pilgrims at World Youth Day (WYD) in your prayers. I am at the Jesuit-run Colegio Nuestra SeÃ±ora del Recuerdo with hundreds...

The Life of Pilgrimage

Discernment Tim Muldoon

I am in China with my family on a heritage tour, a pilgrimage of sorts. Those familiar with my book Longing to Love know...

Globalization of Superficiality

Discernment Tim Muldoon

Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, spoke to Belgian Jesuits in September 2010 about a "globalization of superficiality," a result...

Holy Imitation

Discernment Tim Muldoon

The decisive moment in Ignatius's life came when he realized that he was imitating the wrong person. He realized that imitating the example of...

Aim Higher

Discernment Tim Muldoon

If you don't know Viktor Frankl's work, read his book Man's Search for Meaning--one of the most important books of the 20th century. Below...

“I want, I want”

Discernment Jim Manney

Susan Stabile, an Ignatian spiritual director and law professor, distinguishes between the desire that causes pain and the desire that motivates us: Attachment (what might...