The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.

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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.

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The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.

Episodes

How do you face suffering with faith?

How Jesuit spirituality changed Andrew Garfield’s life

Music as a doorway to the divine with Matt Maher

Greg Boyle, S.J. on compassion and kinship

Hasan Minhaj on Islam, comedy, and the spiritual life

David Brooks on finding faith later in life

A spirituality of family life with Katie Prejean McGrady

Robert George on how to disagree and remain spiritually grounded

Yunuen Trujillo’s ministry to migrants and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics

Actor Martin Sheen on the heroes that shaped his spirituality and activism

Liza Colón-Zayas of "The Bear" speaks honestly about her struggles with faith

Filipino Cardinal “Ambo” David on hearing God's voice in the Bible

How Andrew Sullivan experienced God amidst fear and agony

Cardinal Blase Cupich on how the Mass can change your life

Pádraig Ó Tuama on poetry, conflict resolution, and the Stations of the Cross

Our human desire for God, with the Augustine scholar James K.A. Smith

Catholic and Anarchist: The Spiritual Wisdom of Dorothy Day

Kate Bowler on how to accompany those who are suffering

Jesuit musician Cristóbal Fones on praying with the Pope

Gregory Maguire’s spiritual journey–From a Catholic orphanage to ‘Wicked’-fame

Kathleen Norris on treating spiritual dryness, jealousy, and bad thoughts

A Black, gay Catholic priest on living authentically

Praying with the Bible during Lent

"Help, Thanks, Wow": Three prayers that changed Anne Lamott

Richard Rohr on God, brokenness and healing

The Catholic sister ministering to migrants at our border

Cardinal Nemet’s practical advice for recovering from burnout

The spiritual journey behind Sr. Helen Prejean’s fight to end the death penalty

How to do a spiritual reset for 2026

Introducing: 'Hark! The Stories Behind Our Favorite Christmas Carols'

Brené Brown on Jesus and vulnerable spirituality

Why you need a spiritual director

Br. Guy Consolmagno on praying as a scientist

Adriana Trigiani on the spirituality of ‘showing up’

A Trappist monk on how to stop judging others

Mirabai Starr on mysticism for everyone

Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan sometimes feels like a fraud

Cardinal Stephen Chow on being Christian in a Chinese culture

Fr. Ronald Rolheiser on priestly celibacy and the spirituality of sticking with it

Spiritual wisdom from the youngest woman at the Vatican Synod, Julia Osęka

Ross Douthat on miracles, suffering and how to talk to atheists about religion

Martin Scorsese on the priest who changed his life—and his films

How spiritual writer Sr. Joyce Rupp finds joy and freedom in getting older

A Caribbean archbishop on spiritual darkness, gang mediation and nurturing an "adult faith"

Anthea Butler on intellectual Catholicism, evangelicalism and why the ‘prosperity gospel’ persists

Stephen Colbert on meeting the pope, being Catholic and the spirituality of humor

Mary Karr: ‘a black belt sinner’ loved by God

Pete Buttigieg on Christianity, public life, and the spirituality of fatherhood

Whoopi Goldberg's message for the pope

Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe on friendship, silence, and struggling with prayer