Spiritual Practices: Writing
This week, I spoke to a spiritual direction student about spiritual practices, sometimes called spiritual disciplines. When speaking to folks familiar with spiritual disciples, the first things that come to […]
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Romance as a Post-Pandemic Spiritual Practice
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.- -Proverbs 13:12 While listening to the pilot episode of the podcast “Hot and Bothered,” I […]
Harry Potter as a Sacred Text
For the past several months, I have gathered every Monday with three other chaplains at a state psychiatric hospital in Trenton, New Jersey, to read Harry Potter as if […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Attitude of Gratitude Edition
Dear Askie, I know that gratitude is a good thing and that there are so many blessings in my life… I have enough to eat, work I feel called to, […]
Blogging as Spiritual Practice
I have always loved writing. I was called to ministry when I was thirteen, but I felt called as a writer when I was eight years old. I won a […]
Breastfeeding as Spiritual Practice
The mother can lay her child tenderly to her breast, but our tender Mother Jesus can lead us easily into his blessed breast through his sweet open side, and show […]
