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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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
Feb 25, 20193 min read


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
Jan 28, 20193 min read


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 23, 20183 min read
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