When we bargain with God, we espouse a God who keeps score, rather than the God who loves us no matter what.
Spirituality
Posted inExamen, Faith
James Martin, S.J.: How to sustain your prayer life through Ordinary Time
What ordinary parts of your life do you want to thank God for?
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
The Most Holy Trinity is the pattern for our love and our lives
God simply is a triad of love: a going out in love, a return in love and thus, ever more, love itself.
Posted inExamen, Faith
The Examen with James Martin, S.J.: The Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
The Holy Spirit might be the forgotten person of the Holy Trinity.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What can ghost stories teach us about the Holy Spirit?
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.
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.