Praying for Freedom

Laurie Cassidy, PhD, currently teaches in the Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University and was associate professor in the religious studies department at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. An award-winning author and editor, her latest book, Desire, Darkness, and Hope: Theology in a Time of Impasse, was edited with M. Shawn Copeland. Cassidy has been engaged in the ministry of spiritual direction for over thirty years, giving directed retreats around the United States. Raised in Massachusetts, she now makes her home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, traditional homeland of the Mouche band of the Nuche (today known as the Ute) in Colorado.

Contents
Acknowledgments   xi
Introduction: Praying for Freedom   1
     Laurie Cassidy

PART I
Presuppositions
1  Training the Soul: A Black Catholic Journey through the Spiritual Exercises   23
      Andrew Prevot
2  Digging into Jesuit Slaveholding, Digging into the Exercises   39
      Ken Homan, SJ
3  The Composition of Place in Ignatian Spirituality: Repositioning a Historical-Ecological Encounter with Jesus in the Context of Modernity/Coloniality   47
      Alex Mikulich  

PART II
The Spiritual Exercises
4  From Self-Centered to Other-Centered: Ignatian Indifference on Racial Differences   71
      Hung T. Pham, SJ
5  The Sins of White Supremacy: Institutionalized Racism and a Composition of Place   85
      Jeannine Hill Fletcher
6  The Gift of Tears: White Metanoia at the Foot of the Black Cross   105
      Christopher Pramuk
7  Resting Under the Standard of Christ: The Spiritual Exercises and Discerning White Supremacy   127
      Maureen H. O’Connell
8  Recuerda Que Jesús También Fue Niño: An Undocumented Reflection on the Spiritual Exercises   145
      Armando Guerrero Estrada and Paulina Delgadillo
9  Mephibosheth and Me: An Interpretive Ignatian Prayer of Memory and Imagination   153
      María Teresa Morgan 
10  Ignatian Discernment in a Diverse Ecosystem   159
      Marilyn L. Nash
11  Seeing Bodies: Using the Separate Lenses Frantz Fanon and Ignatius of Loyola for Healing   175
      Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ

PART III
Contemplating God’s Laboring and Loving in the World
12  The Making and Unmaking of White Ignatian Formation   195
      Matthew J. Cressler
13  The God of Us All: Praying with Black Spirituality   211
      Justin White
14  The God of Us All: Examen Reflection   217
      Elise Gower
15  Truth, Healing, and the Journey through Indigenous Catholic Boarding School History   221
      Maka Black Elk
List of Contributors   227