Developing a friendship with God may be the starting point for the spiritual journey, but how can that important internal relationship move us to make an impact on—and even transform—the world around us? In Changed Heart, Changed World , renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, delves into such topics as how friendship with God impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world. Throughout the book, Fr. Barry provides many practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world. Above all else, Changed Heart, Changed World reminds us that God has a dream for his creation here and now—a dream that can only be realized by our becoming “other Christs in this world.” What begins in your heart can make all the difference in the world. Developing a friendship with God may be the starting point for the spiritual journey, but how can that important internal relationship move us to make an impact on—and even transform—the world around us? In Changed Heart, Changed World, renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, delves into such topics as how friendship with God impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world. Throughout the book, Fr. Barry provides many practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world. Above all else, Changed Heart, Changed World reminds us that God has a dream for his creation here and now—a dream that can only be realized by our becoming “other Christs in this world.”   William A. Barry, SJ , is a veteran spiritual director who is currently serving as tertian director for the New England Province of the Society of Jesus. He is the author of several popular books about Ignatian spirituality, including A Friendship Like No Other, Praying the Truth , and Changed Heart, Changed World. Preface Early in 2007, Father Agbonkianmeghe Orobator, SJ, then rector of the Jesuit community at Hekima College, in Nairobi, Kenya, invited me to give a lecture at the Hekima Forum for Exploring Faith in Public Life on December 15. I agreed to speak on the topic of friendship with God in the real world. The talk was well received. I was later invited to give the Loyola Lecture at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish at the University of Connecticut on March 22, 2008, where I was privileged to talk on the same topic. These invitations gave me the impetus to begin this book, an exploration of the ways friendship with God affects the worlds we live in. In the meantime, Guest House at Lake Orion, Michigan, invited me to give the keynote address at the fifty-ninth annual convention of the National Catholic Council on Alcoholism in Houston on January 20, 2009, a further impetus. I am grateful to the communities connected with Hekima College, St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Storrs, Connecticut, and Guest House for these invitations, for the positive reception, and for insightful questions and observations that furthered my thinking and prayer on this topic. A number of friends read the successive drafts of the book. I am very grateful to Robert G. Doherty, SJ; Kathleen Foley, SND; Kenneth J. Hughes, SJ; Robert E. Lindsay, SJ; Thomas J. Massaro, SJ; and William C. Russell, SJ—all of whom read with kindness and acumen and helped me make the end product much better than its beginnings. Vinita Hampton Wright of Loyola Press has been very helpful in making the book more user friendly. I am grateful to readers of articles in Human Development who encouraged me with their comments and insights. I am overwhelmed with gratitude to the many men and women who have given me the privilege of accompanying them as they developed their friendship with God. Some of them have given me permission to use their experiences here to illustrate how friendship changes the real world. The trust I have been given by those who seek spiritual direction continues to bring me to my knees. For the past thirteen years, I have codirected a program (called tertianship) for priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus in preparation for their final vows. They have come from many parts of the world, and each year, they have made the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola for thirty days at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. I’ve been privileged to listen to their experiences of developing a deeper friendship with Jesus—an experience that has impelled them out into the wider world to make their mark in cooperation with their friend. The experience has been enriching for me, and I am immensely grateful to these men, to the staff at Eastern Point Retreat House who help make it a “thin place,” and to my superiors who have given me this profound work to do. Also for the past thirteen year