How to Create Sacred Space
How do you create sacred space? What is a sacred space? Sacred spaces are some of the clearest examples we have of humanity’s active...
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Brayte Singletary
- Sep 15, 2020
- 14 min
Spirituality, Meaning, & the Meaning of Spirituality
What even is spirituality? Rachel asks that very question in one of this blog’s first posts, and gives her answer there too. It’s one of...
Rachel Parsons
- Jul 17, 2020
- 7 min
Q&A with a Spiritual Director
Every so often, we at Fratres Dei Spiritual Direction and Ministries host an "Ask a Spiritual Director Day" on our social media pages....
Rachel Parsons
- Jun 10, 2020
- 7 min
A Letter to My Beloved White Friends, by Karla Johnson
Karla Johnson, a member of my spiritual direction training cohort from back in the day, has graciously given us permission to share...
Caroline Crook
- May 2, 2020
- 4 min
BREAKING: Local Woman Still Anxious
One week back in February, I attended an Ignatian Retreat. On Wednesday, the midpoint of the retreat, one of the suggested passages was...
Rachel Parsons
- Mar 4, 2020
- 4 min
3 Tips for Surviving a Faith Crisis
Believing in Magic: Part II In my last post I shared some thoughts on my misotheistic past, the Problem of Evil, and my eventual exodus...
Rachel Parsons
- Jan 23, 2020
- 3 min
Believing in Magic Part 1: Rachel Gets Personal
Amethyst and flowers on the table Is it real or a fable Well I suppose a friend is a friend -Sufjan Stevens I was recently rummaging...
Saint Gibson
- Dec 11, 2019
- 3 min
Nourished in Darkness: Tolerating Advent
Historically, I've chafed against Advent. As much as I love Christmas, It's hard for me to observe a season devoted to light when...
Rachel Parsons
- Dec 3, 2019
- 2 min
Animate Dust: Poems for Embodiment
This month the Fratres Dei team got together to compile poetry of our own creation about our experiences with embodied spirituality. We...
Caroline Crook
- Oct 31, 2019
- 6 min
Meditation Gone Wrong
I thought I'd tell you all about a guided meditation I once tried that quickly became one of my favorites, and also a complete disaster....
Kara Francisca Resneki
- Sep 18, 2019
- 3 min
Sometimes, Things Get Better
Sometimes it takes days, weeks, or months to see you’re beyond your limits. Sometimes it takes just as long to realize you’ve made a...
Caroline Crook
- Jul 24, 2019
- 4 min
The Body in Stillness (and why I'm very bad at it)
It happens every single time. My mom drags me to her weekly Vinyasa Flow, or one of my friends has a coupon for a free class. I lumber my...
Saint Gibson
- May 30, 2019
- 5 min
Ritual, Rosaries, and Prayers Written in Flesh
Hello wonder-workers and spiritual sojourners! It’s Saint, Fratres Dei’s social media manager and sometimes-theologian, back again to...
Saint Gibson
- Apr 1, 2019
- 5 min
Reclaiming Our Attention from the Distortion Machine
Social media is kind of my thing. I met my future spouse through Tumblr, I'm an author who promotes her work on Twitter, and, as some of...
Rachel Parsons
- Feb 25, 2019
- 4 min
Stay Spiritually Curious
Right after I finished seminary, I, like most seminary grads, was in a harried state. I had spent the last couple years routinely facing...
Rachel Parsons
- Jan 28, 2019
- 3 min
Body Scan Meditation and the Divine
The year was...2016. I was working three part-time jobs: cramming my feet into high heels on the way to hospice chaplain visits and...
Rachel Parsons
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Be Joyful or Something: Thoughts on New Year's Eve
When I was a good youth group kid, I was rip-roaring ready to convert my friends to Evangelical Protestantism (or "Christianity," as I...
Rachel Parsons
- Nov 27, 2018
- 3 min
Dancing Like Everyone’s Watching; or How to Let Your Body Be a Body
Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. -Exodus...
Rachel Parsons
- Oct 23, 2018
- 3 min
What Even is “Spirituality”?
Yadav was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India. He had a Hindu upbringing, but when he moved to the United States to study he started to...
Rachel Parsons
- Oct 3, 2018
- 3 min
Bossing Rocks Around
On a crisp October evening in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, my then boyfriend and I found ourselves skirting along an ever-darkening...
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