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 14, 202014 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
Mar 4, 20204 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...
Saint Gibson
Dec 10, 20193 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 2, 20192 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 30, 20196 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 17, 20193 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, 20194 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...
Rachel Parsons
Jun 10, 20191 min
Episode 4: Spiritual Direction and Finding Meaning
In the pursuit of meaning, is Spiritual Direction a helpful avenue? Three Denver Area Spiritual Directors look at how Spiritual Direction...
Saint Gibson
May 30, 20195 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
Feb 25, 20194 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, 20193 min
Body Scan Meditation and the Sacred
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
Oct 23, 20183 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...
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