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I have considered myself a writer ever since I was eight years old and I co-wrote a series of illustrated short stories with my best friend on 008, the woman spy who took over when James Bond failed. I guess my identity as a feminist was formed around the same time! No longer writing spy fiction, in my adult life, my writing focuses primarily on spiritual themes, including spirituality and the arts, creativity, monastic and contemplative spirituality, and spirituality and justice. Beginning in Fall 2007, I am offering a quarterly journal/zine on specific themes which include reflections, photography, and art to support the spiritual journey.
You can read more of my writing by visiting my blog.
Books:
Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness forthcoming in October 2008 from Paulist Press, co-authored with Sister Lucy Wynkoop
Callings: Becoming Who You Already Are
Now available from Abbey of the Arts Press — from my quarterly series of reflective art journals.
Praying With the Elements: Reflections in Word and Image
Now available from Abbey of the Arts Press – from my quarterly series of reflective art journals.
Articles: (Click on the article titles for PDF files)
“Responding to Beauty’s Call: The Shape of an Aesthetic Spirituality”
Appeared in October 2005 issue of The Way, an international journal of contemporary Christian spirituality
Creativity as a Christian Spiritual Practice: Foundations and Explorations for Ministry”
co-authored with Amy Wyatt
Appeared in the 2006 issue of the Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry
“Using the Arts in Discernment”
Appeared in the September 2006 issue of Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction
“Aesthetics as the Connection Between Spiritual Practice and the Cultivation of Virtue in Hildegard of Bingen’s Theology of Music”
Appeared in the Vol 55, Issue 2 (2004) issue of the American Benedictine Review
“La Estetica Como Vinculacion Entre La Practica Espiritual Y El Cultivo De La Virtud En La Teologia De La Musica De Hildegardis De Bingen”
Appeared in the 2004 issue of Cuadernos Monasticos (151)
“The Relationship Between Spirituality and Artistic Expression: Cultivating the Capacity for Imagining”
Appeared in the Winter 2007 Issue of the UCLA Spirituality and Higher Education Newsletter
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