Episodes
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Feelings and Emotions: Be Curious in Prayer
Ignatius tells us that feelings are important guides in the spiritual life. How do we discern what feelings are telling us? How do we know they are leading us to God? Be curious.
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Ignatian Contemplation: Praying with Your Imagination
Think you don't have an imagination? Here's why Ignatius felt imagination was so important to our prayer. Also, try our new Memory Recollection audio meditation.
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The Ministry of Remembering
It feels good to be remembered. Ignatius saw the memory as a gift, one that draws us into a deeper union with God.
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Friend and Master: Two Images of Divine Companionship
Ignatius uses two images for our relationship with God: a friendship and a master-servant relationship. Both of these however are really about a deep intimacy and companionship.
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And He Is Named – An Audio Meditation
Pray with the four names for Christ from Isaiah 9:6 in this new audio meditation: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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How can I trust that I’m not ‘making up’ my prayer experience?
When we pray using our imagination we might worry that the content of our prayer is not of God, but of our own makings. Here are a few ways you can discern the "voice" in your prayer.
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Having a Mutual Relationship with God
Sometimes we fall into a one-sided relationship with God. We ask for, take, obey, and do what we can so God keeps loving us. That's not a relationship based on genuine love.
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Beloved – An Audio Meditation
An audio meditation on your belovedness. You are loved. Period.
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Building a Prayer Habit
Most of us want to commit to daily prayer, but many find it hard to maintain it as a habit. Here are some things to consider if it's a challenge for you.
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Cultivate Your Faith: Prayer
What does it mean to pray well? This is the first of three talks from a series on cultivating your faith.
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Ignatian Spirituality and Memory
It is human nature to engage memory in bettering ourselves. Memory is an integral part of Ignatian spirituality and a primary way God speaks to us.
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Ignatian Spirituality in Marriage, Family, and Relationships
A conversation with Tim Muldoon on how Ignatian principles can be applied to all kinds of relationships.
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Taking the Examen to the Next Level
Did you know Ignatius presented two variations of the Examen in the Spiritual Exercises? I walk you through the version you may be less familiar with and how you can apply it to your daily life.
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Imaginative Prayer – An Audio Guide
A new audio track to guide you through the imaginative prayer process with a passage of scripture.
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Being, Not Achieving: A Taoist Guide to Ignatian Indifference
Are your efforts to create a prayer routine a failure? The Taoist concept of Wu wei may give some relief.
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Uncovering the Movement of God
How do I hear God's voice? How do I know what God wants me to do?
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Imaginative Prayer for Children
How do we introduce Ignatian spirituality to children? I speak with Jared Boyd, author of Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide for Your Child's Spiritual Formation. Oh, and there's a guided meditation at the end.
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A Long, Loving Look at My Life – A Contemplative Meditation
A new audio meditation inspired by Ignatius' Contemplation to Attain Love, a kind of life-long Examen.
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Doing What We Love (FB Live Audio)
Are you doing what you love in your career and life? Would you do something different if you had the freedom? Discussing Ignatian freedom, desire, and discernment.
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Ask Me Anything! (FB Live Event)
View or listen to my "Ask Me Anything" Facebook Live event.
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God Moments: Prayer
An excerpt on our image of God in prayer, from my new book, God Moments: Unexpected Encounters in the Ordinary.
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Busy and Restless
This new book captures the grace Ignatian prayer can bring to lives that feel busy and restless.
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Imagine Advent – 4th Sunday
Pray with this Sunday's gospel reading using your imagination.
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Imagine Advent – 3rd Sunday
Pray with this Sunday's gospel reading using your imagination.
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Imagine Advent – 2nd Sunday
Pray with this Sunday's gospel reading using your imagination.
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The Call of the King
Christ is calling you to change the world, and you have a specific role. How would you respond?
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Three Spiritual Signals: Desires, Feelings, and Challenges
Each day our desires come face to face with challenges, and the mess of feelings in the middle doesn't make the spiritual life any easier. Yet these three things are important to pay attention to.
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Reverence and the Bow
Our Western culture lacks something so much a part of Eastern culture: reverence and humility, displayed in the gesture of the bow.
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Pick Up Your Mat! (And Walk) – An Imaginative Meditation
What is keeping you paralysed? Put yourself in Jesus' hands in this healing audio meditation.
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Going Through the Motions
Sometimes going through the motions of a ritual can draw us back to God, especially in times of dryness.
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Star Trek’s Religious Themes
Religious themes are certainly not absent from Star Trek. Here's an encore post of What Is Death?
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The Fifth Week
When we have an encounter with the divine, we must ask: How is this encounter going to affect how I live the rest of my life?
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Intimately Created – A Meditation on Psalm 139
A meditation on Psalm 139 and God's intimate relationship with us.
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Interview with Becky Eldredge
Listen to my conversation with Becky Eldredge on the Examen, spiritual direction, and young adults.
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Dreaming of the Resurrection – An Audio Meditation
Use your imagination to meet Jesus at a party. The conversation turns to resurrection. What do you say?
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The Prayer of Listening
What if when we were children we were taught how to listen in prayer, not just to "say our prayers"?
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Purple Rain: Holy Week to Easter
An audio meditation for Holy Week through Easter Sunday.
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Purple Rain: 5th Sunday of Lent
An audio meditation for the Fifth Sunday of Lent.
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Purple Rain: 4th Sunday of Lent
An audio meditation for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
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Purple Rain: 3rd Sunday of Lent
An audio meditation for the Third Sunday of Lent.
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Purple Rain: 2nd Sunday of Lent
An audio meditation for the Second Sunday of Lent.
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Purple Rain: 1st Sunday of Lent
An audio meditation for the First Sunday of Lent.
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Hands: An Imaginative Meditation
Find a quiet space and make time to pray with this meditation on Jesus' hands.
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SHOUT FOR JOY!
Why can't our prayer include joyful laughter?
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What are the Spiritual Exercises?
You can't know Ignatian spirituality without a knowing the importance of the Spiritual Exercises. But what are they?
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Beyond Catechesis
Fostering a deeper adult faith and broadening our understanding of prayer.
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Who Am I? – A New Meditation
A new audio meditation, uncovering our True Self in God.
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Never in the Same Place
No one can ever understand your own experiences. That's actually the gift of being unique beings! God touches us in ways that are best for you and for me.
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Love – Week 10
Contemplation on the Love of God; God’s unceasing giving and gifting
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Sin – Week 9
The personal and cosmic effects of sin; God’s mercy
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An Ignatian Life