Ask Iggy: “What Does Magis Mean?

Ask Iggy: “What Does Magis Mean?

Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints and Blesseds of the Society of Jesus, plus it’s International Jesuit Vocations Day. No matter what our vocation is in life, we are called to live for the MAGIS. You’ve probably seen that term if you’ve been...
How do you teach a twelve-year old to pray?

How do you teach a twelve-year old to pray?

Have you ever wanted to teach middle school?  I thought not.  It’s no easy task to get sixth graders to sit still, must less get knowledge in their heads.  You can imagine my astonishment when I saw a room full of twelve-year olds, silent and still.  My Chicago Jesuit...
Science & the Meaning of Life

Science & the Meaning of Life

What does science have to do with the meaning of life? Adam Frank of NPR’s Science and Culture Blog, titled “13.7” after the best estimates of the universe’s age in billions of years, recently took a stab at this question (you can read the whole piece by...
Advice from a Spiritual Hitchhiker: Don’t Panic

Advice from a Spiritual Hitchhiker: Don’t Panic

Some years ago, I put one of my younger sisters onto Douglas Adams’ science-fiction work The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  The book’s taste for the fantastic and the absurd was just my sister’s kind of humor, but an unforeseen consequence of the recommendation...