I recently returned from walking part of the Camino de Santiago in Spain, along with other faculty colleagues exploring the continuation of a recent...

What the Examen Has in Common with Sports Commentary

Examen Denise Gorss

As I was writing the Olympics post, it struck me that the Examen prayer has much in common with sports commentary. One version of the...

Being People for Others

Reflections Vinita Hampton Wright

St. Ignatius Loyola understood that, even when we strive to do glorious deeds, often the motivation is selfish. Or at least it’s self-focused. In...

Positive Intent

Spiritual Exercises dotMagis Editor

Educator Laura Thomas was at a meeting in which they started by outlining expectations. One caught her by surprise: “Assume positive intent.” I was drawn...

Catching the Soap

Reflections Byron Van Alstyne

Chances to see the good or find the promise of hope emerge in sometimes very subtle ways. Too often those opportunities are suppressed or...

Are We All Elijah?

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

When Jesus raised the widow of Nain’s son (Luke 7:11–17), his Jewish listeners must’ve remembered Elijah, who raised a widow’s son during a visit...

Kevin O’Brien, SJ, on Adapting the Spiritual Exercises

Spiritual Exercises dotMagis Editor

America magazine interviewed Kevin O’Brien, SJ, about his mission and ministry work at Georgetown University. The author of The Ignatian Adventure, O’Brien began a...

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