Abbreviation: SpEx

Meaning: The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises

I share what I am learning about The Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian Spirituality at the intersection of the Science and Theology of identity formation.

Encountering Jesus

Having experienced the Spiritual Exercises (19th Annotation) and a life-changing encounter with Jesus, I went on to train as an Ignatian spiritual director in order to accompany others through the Exercises. Reflecting on what I continue to learn deepens my own formation, and I hope it also helps those who want to explore the richness of Ignatian spirituality for identity formation.

A Spiritual Home

Here, different strands of my faith journey come together—from Evangelical Baptist roots, through Charismatic Evangelical life, into Anglo-Catholic, emerging, and missional understandings—each carried forward, shaped and deepened by theological study and Ignatian spirituality. How these threads converge is something I explore on this site.

Science and Faith: A larger coherence

A significant convergence is taking place—a consilient understanding emerging across behavioural and social science, neuroscience, and social theory. I am increasingly convinced that theology is not simply one voice among others in this conversation, but essential if we are to understand human identity and formation at depth. Ignatian spirituality offers a particularly fertile place to explore this—held not only as theory, but as something lived and practiced.

(you can read a more extended version of this post that explains this site here)

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