by Kathleen Staudt | Jul 22, 2026 | poetry, saints, spirituality
Today, July 22, is the Feast Day of St. Mary Magdalene – one of my most cherished saints of the Church. The story of her meeting with the Risen Jesus in the garden, told in John 20, is really the origin story of Christianity, if you think about it. And I...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Teaching about Writing as a Spiritual Practice, and looking at my own practice, I have been observing how important it has been to me to let the words we sing and say in this season sink in to me, and sing in me. I’m inviting my class at Virginia Seminary this...
by Kathleen Staudt | Sep 8, 2024 | Evelyn Underhill, spiritual direction/companionship, spirituality
I was honored to be asked to write an online profile of Evelyn Underhill for the Women in World Religions project, part of an ongoing and important scholarly effort, all online, called the World Religions and Spirituality Project. You can find my post here I have been...
by Kathleen Staudt | May 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
My collection of new and selected poems is out now and it’s a strange feeling — I sometimes call it a “postpartum” time — when my poems, some of them recent, some of them taking me through much earlier stages of my life, are out there...
by Kathleen Staudt | Nov 19, 2022 | Evelyn Underhill, poetry, spiritual direction/companionship, spirituality
I’ll be offering a talk on Evelyn Underhill next month as part of the Women Mystics School sponsored by Kelly Deutsch’s Spiritual Wanderlust website. In preparation and I suppose as a teaser, Kelly interviewed me for a podcast in the...