Tim Muldoon argues that Ignatian spirituality speaks to the postmodern sensibility because it prizes imagination and experience rather than doctrine and analysis: It is based on a personal, imaginative exploration of the gospel, and it invites people to choose freely...

I assume that everyone reading this is immersed in the "always on" world of the web, blogs, iPods, email, smart phones, iPads, and other devices. Pay heed to Fr. Jim Martin's plea to disconnect every once in a while: Sometimes...

I probably can't describe how I know if and when I'm hearing from the Almighty without sounding odd.  Let's just say I've (pretty much) learned how to distinguish God's prompts from whatever is bubbling up from the simmering cauldron...

Jim Martin, SJ, on sexual abuse and the Sacred Heart. How the St. Louis Jesuits changed liturgical music. (“One person credits them with wrecking the liturgy and the next person credits them with saving it.") Jim McDermott, SJ, on why movie...

There's an ongoing argument in my marriage. My husband complains about something, and then I complain about his complaining. This is no small conflict. What it comes down to is that he gets very irritated when the world doesn't...

A group of young Jesuits is hitting the road this summer giving renewal weekends for young adults. They call themselves the Jesuit Mission Band, and they kick off the missions this weekend in Milwaukee. Other weekends will follow in...

Today a new blogger joins the dotMagis squad.  She is Meredith Gould, a sociologist and author with a passion for blogging, social media, and, as she puts it, "making a joyful noise" (Psalm 100).  Meredith writes a personal blog...

A prof  at Loyola Marymount, a Muslim, eulogizes Coach John Wooden of UCLA as an exemplar of Ignatian values.  (H/T to Jim Campbell.) A teacher at heart, he cared about his players not so much as athletes, but as ...

Until I dive right into a situation, I will never understand how to love the people who live there. As a writer, I could talk poetically about love and compose moving essays on love. But unless I walk into the...

Here is a prayer for the beginning of the work week. It's a reworking of the poem "Prophets of a Future Not Our Own," by Lisa Kelly at the Ignatian Life blog . She did it, she says, "to remind myself...