A while ago I sent this as my first blog posting for dotMagis.  Today there is an update. In December of 2009, I wrote:I went to a funeral Monday morning; the mother of a friend.  She was about 95...

Something to think about | To speak about finding God in all things is to admit that no doctrine, no tradition and no Scripture can exhaust the mystery that is God. It is to remember that our theology, our...

Video cameras are following Radmar Jao as he prepares to be ordained a priest next month.  Jao is the subject of a video series produced by the US Jesuit conference.  It's aimed at vocations promotion, but it's easy for...

Daniel Berrigan, SJ, celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday.  We older folk remember him as a charismatic anti-war activist in the 60s and 70s.  He was a powerful advocate for non-violence and social justice for many years. He is also a...

The Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner was once asked in a radio interview why some people didn't experience God.  His response: 'I don't believe you; I just don't accept that. You have had, perhaps, no experience of God under...

Steve Martin and friends sing the atheist song. (If you can't see the video, click here.)

dotMagis blogger Tim Muldoon has been writing an excellent weekly column at the website Patheos, which is devoted to "a global dialogue about religion and spirituality."  It's full of interesting stuff. This week Tim writes about the royal wedding and...

Exaggeration or reality? There's not a person of faith--dead or alive--who hasn't at some point trudged through a desert landscape of dusty dry and somewhat dessicated prayer. By grace, our rote prayers at these times provide comfort by virtue of...

Iowa newspaper editor and brewer J. Wilson ended a 46-day Lenten fast during which  drank only beer and ate no solid food.  Wilson, a devout Christian, ended his fast early Sunday morning with a bacon smoothie.  Since Ash Wednesday,...

The Washington Post takes note of declining Jesuit numbers in the US, with a focus on Washington DC, but the article has an upbeat tone.  Jesuits may be down, but Ignatian spirituality is up. “Some people outside will see this...