My Day in Purgatory
I took my girls to a place called Purgatory Chasm and had a metaphor experience. Metaphor experiences are of course those things you do...
Being a Dad
Over the past two weeks I've had the remarkable experience of being a nearly full-time Dad. My wife has started a new job and...
Karate and Ignatian Spirituality
I recently took my girls to the drive-in to see the remake of a film I enjoyed when I was younger--The Karate Kid. Now,...
A Postmodern Spirituality
Tim Muldoon argues that Ignatian spirituality speaks to the postmodern sensibility because it prizes imagination and experience rather than doctrine and analysis:
It is based...
St. Ignatius and Psychology
A psychologist named William van Ornum will be writing regularly on America Magazine's "In All Things" blog about the intersection of Christian faith and...
Life Is a Marathon
I just came from watching the 114th Boston Marathon. An awesome sight! It got me thinking about the ten best reasons why a marathon...
Dinner Table Spirituality
It occurred to me just a few days ago that without thinking about it, my family and I were doing a group Examen at...
Links for Your Weekend Reading (and Viewing)
The top 10 moments in the history of Jesuit postseason basketball. (Two of them involve Al McGuire.)
NBC News profiles a remarkable community service program...
Spirituality of Family Life
There were two stone masons, each doing the same job. The first, a melancholy man, was asked what he was doing. "I lay stones," he replied,...
Spiritual and Religious
Writing on Busted Halo, Jim Martin, SJ, makes the argument for embracing religious tradition:
We all tend to think that we're correct about most things,...
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