Steve Givens

Steve Givens is a retreat and spiritual director and a widely published writer on issues of Catholic-Christian faith and spirituality. He is the executive director of the Bridges Foundation, which brings Ignatian spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola to everyday life for those in the St. Louis region. He is also a musician, composer and singer who lives in St. Louis with his wife, Sue. They have two grown and married children and five grandchildren.

Resources by Steve Givens

A Year of Awe: Wonder as the Foundation of Prayer

Dacher Keltner’s “eight mysteries” opened the author’s mind to looking for and finding God in an ever-wider array of his life experiences.

Oliver in the Pot: A Cautionary Tale about Complacency and Action

The point of fable-making is to convey a larger truth, such as the fact that many people might idly be sitting in their own simmering

God Bless Us, Everyone: “A Christmas Carol” in the Age of Zoom

All these years later, the story continues to speak to us, and reading it together amplified a core message: We are meant for each other.

Being a Contemplative Creative-in-Action: The Spiritual Exercises and the Creative Life

This six-week experience of the Spiritual Exercises is for creatives who are interested in the intersection of their creative work with their spirituality.

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