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The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.
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| Date | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 | #52 | #48 |
About the show
What is prayer and how can we pray? How do I know if God is responding to my prayers? What does it mean to live a spiritual life? “The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.,” focuses on how people experience God in their prayer and their daily lives. The show combines practical wisdom with deep reflections from spiritual masters and well-known seekers, all tracing the mystery of God’s activity in their own lives. You can visit the show's webpage at www.americamagazine.org/thespirituallife.
Latest episodes
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What does it mean to have a personal relationship with Jesus?
September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minFr. James Martin, S.J., welcomes Susan Stabile, a spiritual director and retreat leader in the Ignatian tradition onto “The Spiritual Life” podcast. Susan was raised Catholic, but spent twenty years practicing Buddhism (and was ordained a…
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How do you face suffering with faith?
September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minHow do you maintain a friendship with God when life gets hard? What do you do when, in your mid-fifties and at the height of your career, you are diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable brain cancer? That’s the question that confronted…
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How Jesuit spirituality changed Andrew Garfield’s life
September 15, 2026 · 59 minIt’s been over ten years since the award-winning actor Andrew Garfield trained as a Jesuit priest with Fr. James Martin, S.J. Well, more accurately, since he trained to play a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese's film Silence. And the…
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Music as a doorway to the divine with Matt Maher
September 8, 2026 · 59 min“The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.” returns for its third season with what is sure to be a crowd favorite: a conversation with the legendary Catholic musician Matt Maher. A nine-time Grammy Award nominee, Maher has written…
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Greg Boyle, S.J. on compassion and kinship
June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minFounder of Homeboy Industries and best-selling spiritual writer, Greg Boyle, S.J., joins James Martin S.J. on the season finale of “The Spiritual Life” podcast. They talk about who inspired Greg to join the Jesuits, where he goes for…
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Hasan Minhaj on Islam, comedy, and the spiritual life
June 23, 2026 · 56 minHasan Minhaj is “down to catch a blessing,” wherever that may be. The Emmy Award-winning comedian joins James Martin, S.J. on “The Spiritual Life” podcast to share his Muslim faith, how laughter helped to save his life, and his hopes for…
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David Brooks on finding faith later in life
June 16, 2026 · 58 minDavid Brooks is known as one of America’s leading public intellectuals, a longtime columnist for The New York Times and now a staff writer at The Atlantic. He joins James Martin, S.J., on “The Spiritual Life” podcast to share how he went…
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A spirituality of family life with Katie Prejean McGrady
June 9, 2026 · 54 minRadio host and author, Katie Prejean McGrady joins host James Martin, S.J., to talk about the religious revival sweeping across America, how youth ministers can share eternal truths without falling prey to black-and-white thinking, and a…