Life has been full here at the Abbey this summer. I am very hard at work this week getting ready to teach an intensive class on Contemporary Expressions of Monastic Spirituality for the School of Theology andMinistry next week. I am so delighted to immerse myself in the coming days in discussion and exploration of the [...]
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. . . Elizabeth at Mind Whisperings! Send me your snail mail and I will get your copy of Sacred Poetry: An Invitation to Write in the mail to you. Everyone else can order your very own copy at the Abbey Shop. Andy Wilkes at A Man Breathing has some very lovely things to say about this newest edition of [...]
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A friend forwarded this Call for Art Submissions on to me and I explored the links to discover the lovely and whimsical creations called MuseCubes. Gretchen Wegner is the inspiration behind these and they look like so much fun! She is in need of photo submissions to use on her future editions of the MuseCubes, [...]
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Here are some of my favorite posts on monastic spirituality, sort of a “Best of Benedictine Spirituality” in honor of his Feast Day today:
How to Be An Artist-Monk
Radical Hospitality
Rule of Life at the Abbey
Standing in Place (on Stability)
I Live My Life in Widening Circles (on the Hours and Sacred Rhythms)
Telling the Truth (on Humility)
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Are you missing the Abbey this week? I have been hard at work on my book Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Expressive Arts to Spiritual Direction, which I am co-writing with the delightful Betsey Beckman for Morehouse Publishing and is due at the end of the summer. With my husband away and my sweet [...]
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I am co-facilitating my last session of a pastoral ministry supervision group this morning with an amazing group of women and then this afternoon will be boarding a train for Oregon where I will attend the second part of my supervision training which began last summer. I am excited for five leisurely hours on the [...]
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Have you checked out Patheos yet? (the great new site exploring different religious traditions) I will be contributing to them regularly on the topic of art and spirituality and my latest article is here – Beauty and Spirituality — so pour yourself a cup of tea and contemplate the role of beauty in your own spiritual [...]
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The lovely Rachelle at Magpie Girl interviewed me for her series on creating Soultribes (a generous soulcare community).
Go over and read about my own experience of creating and sustaining a small group for deep soul work and then share some of your own wisdom.
Make sure you also read yesterday’s Sacred Artist Interview with Patricia Ariel.
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Happy May Day!
Tess at Anchors and Masts has a great post about the Feast of Beltane along with music by one of my favorite musicians, so go take a peek.
It seems appropriate that on this day I would be heading from Seattle over to the Eastside to gather with 2000 women. The Northwest Women’s Convocation happens [...]
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This is an age when technological tools abound. Here are a few other ways to follow the Abbey:
TWITTER (brand new!)
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