Over my 25 years as a spiritual director, I don’t think I have quoted any line (apart from verses from the Gospels) more than St. Augustine’s dictum, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
James Martin, S.J.
The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach.
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What losing my mom taught me about the Cross
A Good Friday meditation from James Martin, S.J.
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Holy Thursday: A community of equals
A Reflection for Holy Thursday, by James Martin, S.J.
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Catholic and Anarchist: The spiritual wisdom of Dorothy Day
For the longest time, perhaps over a decade, I’ve been encouraging my good friend Robert Ellsberg, the publisher of Orbis Books, to write a book about the time he spent with Dorothy Day when he was a young college student.
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Why do bad things happen to good people? A conversation on suffering with Kate Bowler
Kate Bowler leans, as I do, on a God who accompanies us through our suffering, as she felt God did during her cancer treatments.
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The Spiritual Life: What is the Sacred Heart?
In my interview on “The Spiritual Life” podcast with the talented Jesuit Cristóbal Fones, S.J., now the executive director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, we talk about his work, his prayer, the pope’s intentions, Ignatian spirituality, music and, not incidentally, the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Father Bryan Massingale on faith and identity as a Black, gay, Catholic priest
Father Bryan Massingale has the ability to focus attention on problematic areas in the church in a way that is both challenging and undeniable.
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Ben Witherington on praying with the Bible during Lent
You don’t have to be an archeologist, philologist, historian or biblical scholar to appreciate the need to understand the historical milieu in which Jesus lived.
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Review: Kathleen Norris on a sister’s love
Kathleen Norris’s profound new book ‘Rebecca Sue’ is a kind of double memoir of Norris’s sister, who had suffered from severe mental disabilities, as well of the author herself and her family.
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Anne Lamott on the names we use for God
In our conversation on “The Spiritual Life” podcast, Anne Lamott, one of my favorite spiritual writers, points out that sometimes even the names we use for God need to be refreshed. For some people, the word “God” carries a tremendous amount of baggage because of what they have been told about God.