Content warning: mental illness, religious upbringing, hopelessness When I was in the thick of my religious upbringing, I remember...

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...

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...

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...

One week back in February, I attended an Ignatian Retreat. On Wednesday, the midpoint of the retreat, one of the suggested passages was...

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...

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...

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...

This month the Fratres Dei team got together to compile poetry of our own creation about our experiences with embodied spirituality. We...

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....

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...

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...

In the pursuit of meaning, is Spiritual Direction a helpful avenue? Three Denver Area Spiritual Directors look at how Spiritual Direction...

Hello wonder-workers and spiritual sojourners! It’s Saint, Fratres Dei’s social media manager and sometimes-theologian, back again to...

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...

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...

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...

Right after I finished seminary, I, like most seminary grads, was in a harried state. I had spent the last couple years routinely facing...

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...

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...