About This Book

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises long have guided Christians toward a deeper relationship with God through prayer, reflection, and discernment practices. Yet to modern Christians and other seekers of the Holy, Christine M. Ng argues that the Exercises can feel inaccessible and irrelevant because of their patriarchal, militaristic, and human-centered framework.

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In Listening for God’s Song, Ng reimagines the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises through a progressive Protestant and ecofeminist lens to offer a contemporary and unique experience of the Exercises in daily life. Drawing on Ignatius’s original vision of imaginative prayer and embodied encounters with the Divine, the book invites Christians into a spirituality that’s grounded in relationship—with God, with the diversity of one another, and with creation. Among the book’s insights is the way it reframes theological concepts such as sin and redemption through a lens of inclusive, embodied experiences and ecological awareness.

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Offering a 40-week guided approach, Listening for God’s Song provides practical exercises and guidance suitable for spiritual directors, small groups, and individuals. It incorporates inclusive scriptural reflection and an expansive collection of resources that highlight the lived experience of people of color and women even as it encourages a deeper connection to the sacred presence within all of creation. Accessible yet theologically rich, this book equips those who want to experience the transformative power of the Ignatian tradition--both directors and directees--while embracing a more expansive and embodied vision of faith that addresses the realities of contemporary life.