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Yellow Arrows and Discernment

Several years ago, I was blessed with a chance to walk part of the Camino de Santiago. Each day, we awoke early, put on...

The Examen and Letting Go

We often accumulate misguided and half-hearted commitments that drain of us energy and take us off our most meaningful path. The Examen can function...

What We Can—And Definitely Can’t—Learn About Gods from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe

It’s easy to forget that Thor is a god. I was reminded of this recently watching the latest installment in the Thor franchise—a crucial piece...

The Grace We Need

No matter how pure our motives and how flawless our discernment process, we depend on God's grace ultimately to help us make not only...

How God Gets Our Attention

Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, responds to the question, “How does God get our attention?” He explains these points in the video: Attention involves the whole...

Steadying Each Other

We made our way through the crowded theater, spotting our seats in the center of a row already filled with people. Not wanting to...

Job and Desolation

Job, we are told, was a righteous man, graced by God with all manner of blessing. But when Satan struck a wager with God...

No Guarantees

Each week, my junior high-school math teacher had us write a note to ourselves at the top of our class notebooks. Dear Me, Lord willing, Test on...

Dance with Me

I had been watching too many of those romantic European period pieces, the ones where the ball is the make-or-break moment of the whole...

Humility and Thirst for Christ

This past summer, my area experienced a long drought. On my summer retreat, the usually lush grass was parched, the lilacs looked wilted, and...

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