Ash Wednesday is February 22, 2023, so today we’re highlighting just a few of the many Ignatian-inspired features designed to help you observe Lent. An Ignatian Prayer Adventure Join in an adapted version of the Spiritual Exercises, perfectly timed as a...

The Ignatian tradition offers valuable resources to those seeking meaning and purpose in today’s world. Whether we are steeped in a religious tradition or uncertain about where we fit in the religious landscape, the Ignatian tradition can help us...

This story is inspired by Matthew 4:18–22. I’m curious about this Jesus character. As an investigative journalist, I think he’d be a great story, so I’ve decided to shadow him this morning. We are on the shore of the Sea...

Paul Mitchell, author of The Examen Book, looks at prayer as a way of letting go. In this Pop-Up Prayer interview, he also says that his time of centering prayer makes his experience of the Examen more fruitful.

At times, we all can worry about the future. I’m a planner, and so perhaps I am more prone to anxiety than others. If I am going on a trip, I tend to be the one who reminds people...

In ancient Rome, Janus was the two-faced god of beginnings and endings, but also of transitions and passages. It is therefore no surprise that they associated the new year—the month following the winter solstice—with this figure. Even acknowledging the Northern...

I’m one of those people who prays that God will reveal a word for me to meditate on for the next year. One year, not too long ago, on December 31, I sat and prayed for God to reveal...

“Joy in January” might seem a contradiction in terms. For many of us, January is a cold, wet, sloppy month. For Christians, there’s the natural letdown that happens after Christmas, after the weeks of shopping, baking, celebrating, and anticipating...

In my holiday travels I learned about prayer at an airport while refilling my water bottle at one of those automatic dispensers on a wall near the restrooms. Not the most glamorous location. Sometimes I get an insight out...

I started picking a word of the year a few years ago. I usually pick the word during December, and throughout January, I think about it and write about it and commit it to memory. Then, I honestly forget...