Some readers entering our book contest wrote about how St. Ignatius has inspired them.  Here are some excerpts from these comments.  (Go here to enter the contest if you haven't already.) As a woman and a Presbyterian, I think of...

Just when I'm almost certain that church-the-building is one of the last places I'll encounter God's grace, I receive evidence to the contrary. Being a mystic* type, I'm okay with having my assumptions about church and faith challenged empirically. This...

I took my girls to a place called Purgatory Chasm and had a metaphor experience.  Metaphor experiences are of course those things you do which, once they are accomplished, emerge as perfect metaphors for life.  And I tend to...

God doesn't move, we do. I've heard this aphorism for years and am currently experiencing this bit of wisdom big time.  God doesn't move, but I did—and I mean this quite literally.Was it just last week or the previous...

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 has undergone an orientation process that's taken her away from home for some time, so...

Six months after the earthquake, the people of Haiti are still in great need. "It's like the country has collapsed," says Fr. Wismith Lazard, SJ, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Haiti. JRS operates seven camps that serve...

Jose Funes, SJ, director of the Vatican Observatory, talks to New Scientist about his work and the relationship between religion and science. Is the conflict between intelligent design and evolution an example of an "apparent" conflict between science and...

A friend of mine, whose son was born with Down Syndrome, turned me on to Natalie Merchant's song "Wonder." I think it's a song especially about disabled children,  but it applies to all children.  Maybe that's why it...

It's July, the month of high summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the month of St. Ignatius Loyola, whose spiritual ideas we celebrate here at IgnatianSpirituality.com.  Ignatius's feast day is July 31.  Loyola Press has assembled a collection of...

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, several days removed from seeing it, I find myself struck by how much it resonates...