Video: What is Theology of the Body?
What is the body's relationship to the Divine? How do our bodies reveal the Divine to ourselves and to each other? How can you involve...
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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...
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...
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
- 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
- Jul 7, 2018
- 3 min
The Literal Body of Christ's Literal Body of Christ and the Literal Body of Christ
I talk a lot about bodies. I cannot overemphasize the inherently physical nature of our humanity and the importance of living into our...
Rachel Parsons
- Apr 24, 2018
- 2 min
More of C. S. Lewis’s Greatest Heresies; or How to Not Hate Your Body
Some days I find myself in euphoric rapture about the miracle of my physical being and in profound gratitude that I hail from a...
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