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Finding Beauty Amidst Suffering

Etty Hillesum, the young Jewish woman killed at Auschwitz who wrote beautiful diaries of life in Amsterdam, wrote movingly of finding beauty amidst suffering. most...

The Grace of Detachment

The grace of indifference or detachment is often what we hope for in prayer. It is the place where we have surrendered to God...

My Both/And Call

When my son, Brady, was eight weeks old, I led my first Charis retreat in the Diocese of Baton Rouge. I remember kneeling at...

Desire and Decision

Sometimes the Christian journey is framed in terms of making a decision, a commitment, to follow Jesus and his way. But we don't live...

The Two Poles of Discernment

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

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?

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

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...

World Youth Day

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

The Life of Pilgrimage

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

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