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How to Build in Time to Pray

For me, late August means back to school and a more rigorous schedule than in the summer. While I work over the summer, late...

Education, Happiness, and Problem Solving

Should education teach people how to deal with problems or how to try to be happy? My basic premise is that happiness is what human...

A Gentle Saint: St. Peter Faber

Editor’s note: We commemorate the August 2 feast day of St. Peter Faber with Faber Fridays this month, inspired by Jon M. Sweeney’s book,...

Rare Treasures

The corpse flower only blooms once every three to ten years. It’s very rare. Well, actually, the plant itself is not rare, just the...

St. Ignatius and Community

We think of Ignatius alone in his cave in Manresa, doing spiritual battle and learning to discern God’s direction for him. Ignatius was at...

Cannonball of Love

I’m sitting in the auditorium at the college during orientation day for my first-year student daughter. The speaker is talking about Jesuit education and...

Learning to Surrender to God

The familiar features of St. Ignatius’s experience with injury by a cannonball have to do with his learning to discern and to change his...

Why I Left IT to Join the Jesuits

Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re celebrating 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian articles found here,...

Six Lessons from a Cannonball Diagnosis

It was 1:17 a.m. when I finally gave up trying to sleep. How is it possible I can’t get comfortable in a hospital bed...

Putting a Stop to Food Waste

About 18 months ago I watched a documentary by American chef and author Anthony Bourdain, Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, which completely transformed...

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