Every so often, we at Fratres Dei Spiritual Direction and Ministries host an "Ask a Spiritual Director Day" on our social media pages. Fo...

Karla Johnson, a member of my spiritual direction training cohort from back in the day, has graciously given us permission to share power...

One week back in February, I attended an Ignatian Retreat. On Wednesday, the midpoint of the retreat, one of the suggested passages was L...

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 f...

CW: Satan, misotheism, violence against women Amethyst and flowers on the table Is it real or a fable Well I suppose a friend is a friend...

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 darknes...

This month the Fratres Dei team got together to compile poetry of our own creation about our experiences with embodied spirituality. We i...

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. ...

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 mist...

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...

Hello wonder-workers and spiritual sojourners! It’s Saint, Fratres Dei’s social media manager and sometimes-theologian, back again to sha...

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 ...

Right after I finished seminary, I, like most seminary grads, was in a harried state. I had spent the last couple years routinely facing ...

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 spiri...

When I was a good youth group kid, I was rip-roaring ready to convert my friends to Evangelical Protestantism (or "Christianity," as I ca...

Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. -Exodus 1...

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 
 the practice of deriving any amount of meaning from any event, thought, or activity Sound vague? It’s because it is. Throughout my career as an interfaith spiritual director and a hospice chaplain, this definition is repeatedly reinforced in my mind. I can meet with any amount of people from militant atheists to militant fundamentalists, a

On a crisp October evening in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, my then boyfriend Daniel and I found ourselves skirting along an ever-darken...

I talk a lot about bodies. I cannot overemphasize the inherently physical nature of our humanity and the importance of living into our hu...

Some days I find myself in euphoric rapture about the miracle of my physical being and in profound gratitude that I hail from a theologic...