Category: Mercy
The Spiritual Neuroscience of Revenge: Choosing Freedom Over Retaliation
Neuroscience research reveals that revenge activates the same reward circuits in our brains as addictive drugs, keeping us trapped in what Ignatian spirituality calls the “false self.” Faith-based practices like prayer and meditation literally rewire the brain for mercy over retaliation, offering a path to the spiritual freedom that comes when we choose forgiveness over the ego’s demand for revenge.
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Forgiveness is a Means to Freedom
Forgiveness is a way that God seeks to lift the burdens from us that prevent us from the freedom to love and live fully.
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Making Idols of Human Institutions
We have put too much stock in human governments and institutions. The archetypal pattern found in scripture shows that human kingdoms always fail and God is always trying to draw us back to our original goodness.
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You’re Loved Just the Way You Are
Mister Rogers did the work of Jesus, sharing God’s love by reminding us that we are inherently loved just the way we are.
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Cultivate Your Faith: Reconciliation
Reconciliation is all about old things passing away. This is the second talk in our series, Cultivate Your Faith.
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Choosing the Unexpected
From Moses to David to you, our radical God chooses the lowly and unknown to do great things.
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Incomprehensible Mercy
I’d like to share with you a workshop I presented last month at Ministry Days, a conference...
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Entering into Relationship with the Poor
Sometimes giving others dignity is not just about offering money or healing, but about making eye contact with them and becoming friends.
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God’s Google Map of Your Life
A meditation on the Incarnation, using Google Maps.
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Pointing Mercy Inward
This Year of Mercy it’s worth being merciful to ourselves.
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Stop Requested
Public transit becomes a reminder to pay attention and cultivate an awareness of rest and being.
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Mercy and Powerlessness in Ecuador
When we look at the face of the poor, we’re reminded of our own power and privilege. Yet it’s the poor who teach us about our powerlessness and how to live a life of mercy.
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Kids Journal
This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.
