Crossroads: The ISP Blog

Still Becoming

Still Becoming

This fall, our women’s team in Detroit chose “Still Becoming” as the theme of their retreat. It is the title of a poem by Angie, an ISP alum in Detroit and one of our new Ambassadors of Hope. She wrote it on Aug. 31 and said yes to our sharing it. The photo is from...

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Forty Retreats of Hope and Healing at Manresa

Forty Retreats of Hope and Healing at Manresa

On Tuesday, Oct. 20, a bus from Bridge House, a treatment program that has served New Orleans for more than 65 years, pulled through the white fence and gates of Manresa House of Retreats in Convent, Louisiana. The men on board were not sure what they had signed up...

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No One Heals Alone: Six Movements on the Journey of Recovery

No One Heals Alone: Six Movements on the Journey of Recovery

What recovery teaches is something all of us need to learn: how to heal and begin again. “No One Heals Alone” follows six movements on the journey of recovery, told by the people who have walked them, with what the spiritual traditions and the science say alongside each one.

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“And I thought, yes, ISP!”

“And I thought, yes, ISP!”

“And I thought, yes, ISP!” After retiring from a lifetime of ministry, Jean Thoresen found her people, and set about rebuilding ISP’s Twin Cities community one phone call at a time.

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Where the Margins Meet the Classroom

Where the Margins Meet the Classroom

Ignatian spirituality is supposed to be lived. ISP alumni are walking into Jesuit high school classrooms and showing students what that looks like, carried by their own experience of recovery, faith, and community.

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Kindle the Fire: Join Us for Company of Grace 2026

Kindle the Fire: Join Us for Company of Grace 2026

Company of Grace 2026 takes over a glass-blowing studio in Chicago’s West Loop on April 23. A fireside conversation on spiritual recovery, featuring Illinois’ Chief Homelessness Officer, the leader of a $40M housing campus, and ISP’s Ambassadors of Hope. In-person and free livestream options available.

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