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Hope and the Common Good

Lisa Kelly

There is a scene in the movie The Shawshank Redemption in which the two main characters, both prisoners in the 1950s, debate about hope....

Act Against the Creative Censor

Eric Clayton

We are made in the image and likeness of our God who creates. It doesn’t matter if we don’t make our living writing, painting,...

No Patience

Gretchen Crowder

I am not a patient person. I like to act quickly and want everything and everyone to act just as quickly as I do. Perhaps...

God in the Details

Shemaiah Gonzalez

Once when I was a little girl, I walked by the front door to our house and noticed a shaft of light shining through...

A New Phase of Inner Growth

dotMagis Editor

Sometimes it takes a bolt of lightning to release our creativity and kick-start the emergence of a new way of thinking or doing or...

Hope and a Call for Change

Rebecca Ruiz

As a spiritual director, I have the great privilege to accompany individuals on their spiritual journeys. Some of the people that I accompany serve...

Spirituality of Family Life

Tim Muldoon

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,...

How Do I Identify the Work That Matters?

Vinita Hampton Wright

It can take awhile—sometimes many years—for a person to sort out all that she’s been taught, told, and in some cases manipulated to believe...

The Miracle Organ

Giacinta

During a recent holiday, I visited a man who received a new organ from a donor. Childhood illnesses had ravaged his body. These complications...

Counterfeit Consolation

dotMagis Editor

We need Ignatius’s first set of rules for discernment because desolation is a common experience. We need his second set because of another unwelcome...

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