Bill Toner SJ
An ‘architectural gem’
December 21, 2022
The official launch of the Milltown Library, now housed in Woodlock Hall in Dublin City University’s All Hallows campus in Drumcondra, took place on Thursday 8 December 2022.
Read moreIn search of spirituality
December 5, 2022
BILL TONER SJ :: A spirituality of detachment is about creating the conditions for communicating with God – or rather, for allowing God to communicate with us.
Read moreWhy did God do that?
November 18, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: Christians needn't look at misfortunes as willed by God; best to see God accompanying us through the randomness of life.
Read moreGod in my breathing
August 20, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: Indian Jesuit Tony de Mello showed us how to pay attention to our breathing and why this is a valuable form of prayer for everyone
Read moreDesolation and grace
May 25, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: It is not always easy to discern whether dark times come from the good spirit or the bad. What matters is how we react to them
Read moreThe human mind – a glimpse of the divine?
March 22, 2021
BILL TONER :: Faith and the one truly mysterious thing in life – our own human mind, particularly our own consciousness
Read moreThe two gardeners
January 12, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: God resembles the gardener who nurses sick plants back to health rather than the gardener who pulls them up in order to keep everything neat
Read moreMoving beyond the old battles between science and religion
November 18, 2020
GERALDINE MOONEY SIMMIE :: Real change in our world will require moving away from the hyper-rationalism that shows in both science and religion
Read moreSpirituality after Einstein
November 10, 2020
BILL TONER SJ :: The insights of Einstein have changed our understanding of the whole universe, but this does not put paid to spirituality.
Read moreThe experience of grace: a reflection
October 21, 2020
BILL TONER SJ :: Notes for an online group reflection on the experience of God's grace, with a little help from Karl Rahner
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