I am often looking for spiritual books which might help my prayer and especially jog my imagination about God in my life By chance I found an excellent such book in Love Poems From God Twelve Sacred Voices from East to West Daniel Ladinsky editor New York Penguin Compass 2002 The book co
John A. Coleman
John A. Coleman S.J., is an associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. For many years he was the Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His books and other writing have focused largely on areas connected to sociology of religion and also to social ethics. His most recent work has concentrated on issues of globalization.
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Remembering Robert N. Bellah
John A. Coleman, S.J., pays tribute to his teacher, mentor and friend, who died one year ago on the Feast of St. Ignatius.
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The Jesuits and ‘Secularization’
It may seem a bit bizarre to encounter a title quot The Jesuits and Secularization quot appearing close by the feast of Saint Ignatius Surely the sons of Ignatius have imbibed Ignatius 39 famous trope about quot finding God in all things quot such that the purely secular i e a realm de
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Mysticism and Meditation: Buddhist and Christian
My dear friend Ralph Lane wrote poetry in his retirement years One such poem entitled quot I Will Never Be a Mystic quot reads quot I will never be a mystic and to be honest I am not really trying though it all sounds so subtle and seductive letting go of self in Sufi wisdoms dancing un
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The International Religious Freedom Report for 2012
On Monday May 20th Secretary of State John Kerry released the annual Religious Freedom Report for 2012 It was grim reading An Annual report on the state of religious freedom around the world is required by Congress 39 International nbsp Religious Freedom Act of 1998 It follows recommendations
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Objects of Belief
The De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco has a formidable ethnological collection Especially notable is the justly world famous Jolika collection of New Guinea art and a strong collection of Meso-American murals Currently on exhibtion are some fifty items from the Vatican Ethnolog
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Disconnect
When I saw recently the excellent movie quot Disconnect quot about the destructive potentials in internet use I was led to reflect or notice the following items Item 1 In late February of this year I spent four days in Northern Minnesota giving some lectures at Saint John 39 s University
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The Whipping Man
The Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley has mounted the west coast premiere of Matthew Lopez 39 s play quot The Whipping Man quot The play won the 2011 John Gassner new play award from the New York Outer Critics 39 Circle It played there at the Manhattan Theatre Club It is set at the end o
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Washing the Feet of Women on Holy Thursday II
I came across a moving document which appeared on Vatican radio–letters from detained young prisoners in California organized by Mike Kennedy S J If the right wing Catholics did not get the pope 39 s gesture these young prisoners did Quite lovely reading You can find it here nbsp
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Washing the Feet of Women on Holy Thursday
Most of my adult life since Vatican II at every parish I have either worshipped or celebrated Holy Thursday the priest and others have washed the feet of men and women boys girls and elderly people I have never in my life given much extra thought to this practice because it struck me that Jesu