Today, Ash Wednesday, the first Lunchtime Examen goes live on IgnatianSpirituality.com. I've recorded six of these; a new one will be posted every Wednesday...

Lunchtime Examen

Examen Jim Manney

It's time to make some decisions about what you'll do to observe Lent, which is only nine days away. May I suggest that you give...

Examen Book Review

Books Jim Manney

The first review of A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer is up. Meredith Gould likes it! Read it here. While you're at it, browse through Meredith's...

A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer

Books Jim Manney

I've just published a new book. It's called A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, and it's about the Ignatian Examen, which has changed a lot of...

Releasing Our Captives

Examen Jim Manney

I like Phil Fox's Rose's column on practical spirituality on BustedHalo.com. Recently he wrote an article about the Examen in which he quoted this...

The Examen Is Good for Men

Examen Jim Manney

The evangelical blogger John Mark Hicks makes an excellent point about the examen: I think it is particularly important for men since it focuses on...

Using the Examen to Change

Examen Jim Manney

Aaron Pidel, SJ, thinks that this observation in a Times article on self-monitoring is right on the mark. When we try to change we simply...

His Life Was Good but His Thinking Was Bad

Examen Jim Manney

One of my favorite characters in fiction is Konstantin Dmitrich Levin in Leo Tolstoy's great novel Anna Karenina. Levin is an intelligent young aristocrat with...