Fr. John Coleman’s Blog

Starting in April, 2009, Fr. John Coleman, S.J., Associate Pastor at St. Ignatius, will create blog entries on this page twice each month. We invite you to bookmark this page and to make Fr. Coleman’s thoughts and insights a source of your spiritual nourishment.

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May 10, 2013:		Objects of Belief
Apr. 30, 2013:		Disconnect
Apr. 10, 2013:		The Whipping Man
Apr. 2, 2013:		Washing the Feet of Women on Holy Thursday
Mar. 28, 2013:		Pacem in Terris at 50
Mar. 6, 2013:		Why is the Vatican Interested in the Search for Life in the Universe?
Feb. 6, 2013:		They Do Not Serve Who Only Stand and Wait
Jan. 25, 2013:		A Catholic Voice on Immigration Reform
Jan. 8, 2013:		Spiritual Reading for Ordinary Time
Dec. 26, 2012:		Post-Christmas Spiritual Reading
Dec. 4, 2012:		It’s A Wonderful Life
Nov. 20, 2012:		Quis Cutodiet Custodes
Nov. 16, 2012:		Whither Catholic Health Care
Oct. 24, 2012:		Job and The Mystery of Suffering
Oct. 15, 2012:		On Retreat
Oct. 1, 2012:		Us vs. Them
Sept. 18, 2012:		Mission Statements, Strategic Planning and Spirituality
August 17, 2012:		Lectio Divina
August 7, 2012:		Edith Stein
July 29, 2012:		The Moral Limits of Markets
July 13, 2012:		Thomas Merton and the Dialogue with Buddhism
June 29, 2012:		Loyalty Oaths in the Church
June 14, 2012:		Putting Spirituality and Catholic Social Teaching Together
May 17, 2012:		Will The Girl Scouts Cookie Crumble?
May 9, 2012:		Bullying
April 24, 2012:		The Dialogue Church
April 10, 2012:		Othello and Complicity
April 2, 2012:		Women and Spirit
March 23, 2012:		The Hockey Stick and Climategate
March 8, 2012:		Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
March 1, 2012:		Dialogue Between Science and Rreligion
February 2, 2012:		Mis-Measuring Our Lives
January 17, 2012:		Silent Souls
January 10, 2012:		Religious Liberty: A Delicate Balance?
January 4, 2012:		Spiritual Reading for Liturgical Cycle B
December 20, 2011:		The Governor’s Conference on Extreme Climate Risks & California’s Future
December 6, 2011:		Tennessee Williams at 100
November 14, 2011:		How to Write a New Book for the Bible
November 8, 2011:		When They Began the Beguines
October 21, 2011:		Reflections on U.S. Economic Inequalities
October 13, 2011:		You Can’t Just Gate Off the World
September 21, 2011:		The Steins Collection: Art as Religion
September 1, 2011:		Remembering Msgr. George Higgins on Labor Day
August 16, 2011:		The Mellifluous Doctor
July 31, 2011:		The Other, Older Ignatius
July 17, 2011:		A Code of Conduct for Conversions
June 26, 2011:		Lobbying for Eco-Justice
June 14, 2011:		The Circumcision Wars
May 25, 2011:		Pat Conroy, S.J., House Chaplain
May 13, 2011:		Damien of Molekai
April 28, 2011:		To Err is Human, To Forgive Divine
March 30, 2011:		Even The Rain
March 8, 2011:		Time to Keep Silence
February 26, 2011:		Hope for the Future of Ecumenism
February 16, 2011:		The Impending Liturgical “Reform”
February 1, 2011:		Interfaith Power and Light
January 16, 2011:		Reading a Spiritual Classic: The Cloud of Unknowing
December 31, 2010:		Spirituality, Discernment and New Year’s Resolutions
December 18, 2010:		American Grace: Parsing American Religion
December 5, 2010:		A Listening, Learning Church
November 13, 2010:		9 Circles
October 7, 2010:		Mary Mackillop: Australia’s First Canonized Saint
September 23, 2010:		The Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
September 9, 2010:		Galleons and Globalization
August 19, 2010:		The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
July 28, 2010:		Combating Sex Trafficking
July 17, 2010:		On Retreat
June 24, 2010:		Winter’s Bone
June 15, 2010:		Merchants of Doubt
May 29, 2010:		Spirituality and the “Noonday Devil”
May 16, 2010:		Tattoos on the Heart, then a Partial Heartbreak
May 3, 2010:		Are the UN Millennial Goals Still Feasible? What Can Churches Do?
April 13, 2010:		Life Sentences Without Parole for Juveniles: Inhumane, Morally Wrong
March 28, 2010:		The Most Dangerous Man in America
March 24, 2010:		Ignatian Discernment of Spirits
February 25, 2010:		Anthony De Mello: Be Aware! Be Alive! Be in Love!
February 16, 2010:		A Spirituality for Lent
January 28, 2010:		Everyday Prophesy as Consistent Truth-Telling; Ardent and Consequential Love as Ordinary Faithfulness
January 18, 2010:		Spirituality for Ordinary Time
December 27, 2009:		Three Poets on Christmas
December 12, 2009:		Praying the O Antiphons in Advent
November 22, 2009:		Into The Silent Land
November 3, 2009:		How Authentically Religious is Our Being Green?
October 5, 2009:		Ecological Spirituality from Saint Francis
September 22, 2009:		Jesus, A Portrait
September 6, 2009:		Coincidence, Karma or Providence?
August 19, 2009:		All Will Be Well; Every Manner of Thing Will be Well
August 2, 2009:		Ignatian Charism and a Jesuit Parish
July 6, 2009:		Food Inc — Questions of Temperance and Justice
June 24, 2009:		A Modest Method to Try to Find God in All Things
June 12, 2009:		Prayer: Personal, Intimate and Imaginative
May 21, 2009:		Spirituality, Seeing and the Art of William Kentridge
April 17, 2009:		Gerard Manley Hopkins