Bernie Owens, SJ, resides at Mwangaza Jesuit Spiritual Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, where he guides retreats, serves as a team member of the Training Course for Spiritual Guides, and teaches part-time at Hekima College, the Jesuit seminary. Prior to this ministry, he served as a retreat guide, as director of the Internship in Ignatian Spirituality, and as the leader of discussion groups on spiritual classics, especially of Carmelite and Ignatian authors, at Manresa Jesuit Retreat House near Detroit, Michigan.