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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How to read, interpret and pray with the Bible

2026-11-10 · 1 hr 11 min

The Bible is a complex library of history, wisdom and spirituality all communicating God’s intimate and inclusive presence. How can we study these texts to better understand them, and at the same time learn to pray with…
Cardinal Czerny on migrants, martyrs, and working for justice

2026-11-03 · 55 min

How can Catholics stand alongside people on the margins? On this week’s episode of “The Spiritual Life”, James Martin, S.J., speaks with Cardinal Michael Czerny about working for justice and facing life’s realities…
Can prayer and friendship overcome polarization?

2026-10-27 · 52 min

Can Catholics come together in deeply polarized times? Fr. James Martin is joined by Tim Busch, a businessman, philanthropist, and one of the most prominent Catholic lay leaders in the United States. He is the…
From refugee to Bishop: Michael Pham’s remarkable story of migration, vocation and advocacy

2026-10-20 · 58 min

How can leaders in the church accompany migrants and refugees? Fr. James Martin, S.J., speaks with Bishop Michael Pham about how his background as a refugee has led him to accompany migrants today. Bishop Pham fled…
Bishop Mariann Budde on preaching the gospel in a political world

2026-10-13 · 1 hr 4 min

How do we navigate politics in our congregations, our prayers, and our lives of faith? Fr. James Martin, S.J., discusses these questions with Bishop Mariann Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington DC. Bishop Budde…
What role does conscience play in our spiritual lives?

2026-10-06 · 56 min

What is moral theology, and where does it fit in our spiritual lives? Fr. James Martin, S.J., asks these questions to James Keenan, a Jesuit priest and one of the world's leading Catholic moral theologians on “The…
What does it mean to have a personal relationship with Jesus?

2026-09-29 · 1 hr 2 min

Fr. 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…
How do you face suffering with faith?

2026-09-22 · 1 hr 10 min

How 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…
How Jesuit spirituality changed Andrew Garfield’s life

2026-09-15 · 59 min

It’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…
Music as a doorway to the divine with Matt Maher

2026-09-08 · 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,…

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