Our true selves are within us but sometimes we need a mirror to be held up before us so we can see it, and also see those false-self layers that need to be shed.

Do you read the Gospel and Jesus' statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion.

The ego cares about our possessions, our status, and our group membership – all things that are passing. The spiritual life ought to lead us to put our stock in the lasting promise of God.

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.

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.

A helpful method to draw closer to God.

We need to balance the inner work required to fight racism, transforming our own hearts, in addition to outer work like advocacy.

My wife Sarah reflects on the life-giving power of the breath.

For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those energy streams are intensified. When we’ve given of ourselves over and over and spent our energies in places longer than we ever would have imagined, we can quickly find our wells dry. I’m having to give even […]

Listen to a new audio meditation on St. Ignatius' famous prayer, the Suscipe (Take Lord, Receive).