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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Episode 1: What is Spiritual Direction?
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
Feb 22, 20191 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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