We speak of spirits and ghosts when we encounter the sort of meaning that only another person can share with us, yet we cannot locate that person in our world.
Spirituality
Posted inExamen, Faith
The Examen with James Martin, S.J.: The Seventh Week of Easter
What place does your body have in your spiritual life?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
70 years of friendship: John O’Malley on Jesuit spiritual master Howard Gray
If the church is a field hospital, I have known a place within the church where the wounded have flocked for many decades. I am speaking, of course, of Howard Gray.
Posted inExamen, Faith
Father James Martin, S.J.: The Sixth Week of Easter
Is there something in my life that I need to take time to ponder, time to understand?
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Imagine yourself on the other side of death with the Lord
We often imagine our own deaths, though typically what we picture is our funeral.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
How painting can become an act of penance
Teaching in prison, and a racially charged encounter, amplified my consciousness of race in religious imagery.
Posted inExamen, Faith
The Examen with Father James Martin, S.J.: The Fifth Week of Easter
Believe it or not, it’s still Easter.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
From alcoholism and agnosticism to converting to Catholicism: a conversation on faith with Mary Karr
“Any way I tell this story is a lie.” Mary Karr opens her memoir “Lit” with a warning about the inevitable unreliability of memory. But don’t be fooled. Mary Karr delivers many truths that you need to hear. Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and New York Times best-selling author. Her poems have been published […]
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
From alcoholism and agnosticism to converting to Catholicism: a conversation on faith with Mary Karr
Mary Karr delivers many truths that you need to hear.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
U.S. Catholics disagree about what it means to believe in God
A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 87 percent of U.S. Catholics believe God is “all-loving,” but only 67 percent say God is “all-powerful.”