A friend of mine once told me that grief is tricky. It envelops us in emotion when we expect it, like on birthdays and anniversaries. But it also tends to sneak up when we least expect it, like on...

Author Becky Eldredge talks about writing as a co-creative act with God and its connection to the Contemplation on the Love of God, the meditation at the end of the Spiritual Exercises. While Becky acknowledges some of the many...

The old coffeemaker had been sitting in the middle of the counter since we moved—and that had been well over a month. Every day, there was a dance. The small appliance would shimmy to the right as dinner was...

In an episode of Pop-Up Prayer, Jean Heaton talks about how 12-step practices can help us to understand the role of trust and intimacy in prayer. Jean is the author of Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and...

As we approach Pentecost, Gretchen Crowder leads us in prayer. Come, Holy Spirit! You may also like: Pentecost Astonishment by Pope Francis Imaginative Prayer: Pentecost by Vinita Hampton Wright

“Everyone is just looking to be told that who he or she is is right and true and wholly acceptable. No need to tinker and tweak.” This line comes from “Love” in Gregory Boyle’s Forgive Everyone Everything. Enjoy the...

I have often struggled with the Ignatian practice that desires to carry the cross and ask for suffering. Why would anyone ask for suffering? In the Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius writes of the Three Degrees of Humility, with the third...

This story is inspired by Acts 8:26–40. I am Philip. The Holy Spirit has been giving me the free gift of paying attention, of staying aware, and of listening to hints the old me may have ignored. I was about my...

My sister has a saying I’ve heard her holler at any of her four children when they are moping or grumbling or just being absolute pills: “Go spread your seeds of discontent somewhere else!” I love when she says this....

May 16 is National Biographers’ Day, making it a good day to spend some time with the biographies of notable Jesuits. Take a Mini-Retreat with Pedro Arrupe. The main content is excerpted from Pedro Arrupe: A Heart Larger Than...