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What Happens in Spiritual Direction?
What is spiritual direction? What happens in a spiritual direction session? Is spiritual direction Catholic? How is spiritual direction...
Rachel Parsons
Dec 10, 20245 min read
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Nonreligious Thoughts on Hope
Content warning: mental illness, religious upbringing, hopelessness When I was in the thick of my religious upbringing, I remember...
Rachel Parsons
Mar 19, 20245 min read
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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...
Caroline Crook
Feb 18, 20216 min read
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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...
Brayte Singletary
Sep 14, 202014 min read
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Video: What is Embodied Spirituality?
What is the body's relationship to the sacred? How do our bodies reveal the sacred to ourselves and to each other? How can you involve...
Rachel Parsons
Aug 17, 20201 min read
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Q&A with a Spiritual Director
Every so often, we at Fratres Dei Spiritual Direction host an "Ask a Spiritual Director Day" on our social media pages. For this month's...
Rachel Parsons
Jul 17, 20207 min read
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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...
Rachel Parsons
Jun 10, 20207 min read
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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...
Caroline Crook
May 1, 20204 min read
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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
Mar 4, 20204 min read
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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...
Rachel Parsons
Jan 23, 20203 min read
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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...
Saint Gibson
Dec 10, 20193 min read
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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...
Rachel Parsons
Dec 2, 20192 min read
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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....
Caroline Crook
Oct 30, 20196 min read
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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...
Kara Francisca Resneki
Sep 17, 20193 min read
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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...
Caroline Crook
Jul 24, 20194 min read
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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...
Rachel Parsons
Jun 10, 20191 min read
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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
May 30, 20195 min read
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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...
Saint Gibson
Apr 1, 20195 min read
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Episode 3: Who is Spiritual Direction For?
What is Spiritual Direction? Who is it for, and what does it do? We’re 4 Denver Area Spiritual Directors with a passion to educate on...
Rachel Parsons
Mar 25, 20191 min read
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Episode 2: What does Spiritual Direction DO?
What is Spiritual Direction? Who is it for, and what does it do? We’re 4 Denver Area Spiritual Directors with a passion to educate on...
Rachel Parsons
Mar 5, 20191 min read
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