Posts in Spirituality

What is glorious? To find ourselves lifted above the clouds and into the light, to experience ourselves aloft and to notice, in the clouds below, our ever-present shadow. Only this time to see that shadow surrounded by a rainbow of light…

I admit it – I’m a sucker for a good old-fashioned bell tower. This past Sunday, my mind was wandering when suddenly a single, sobering bell tolled, chasing away my wandering thoughts…

At the end of the summer my plane lifted off, following the Brahmaputra River toward the Himalayas. The sun reflected off the flooded rice paddies far below, and the wide valley sparkled like a vast and broken mirror…

In all my well-intentioned hand-wringing, I indulged in the old platitude about “how far we have to go.” But here’s the problem: when I think “we,” what I really mean is “they”…

I marvel at the life I live now. My own imagination is too small for the life I’m being asked to live, the life to which God calls me. And I think that this is true for all of us…

Over my spring break a few weeks ago I accompanied one of Saint Louis University’s outreach trips to the small town of Kermit, West Virginia. We spent a week amidst the scenery and accents of the coal country…

“Don’t you know that God is the same everywhere?” the Father asked. “Yes,” the boy answered, “…but I’m not.” I thought of this a few weeks ago, as I sat reading…

In college I wouldn’t have gone anywhere near a site like the Jesuit Post, but then I spent most of my life telling myself that I should have been someone else…

I doubt that I’m the only one who’s ever been bothered by scripture. In fact, in a backwards sort of way, being bothered by scriptures can actually be a good thing…