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 that just dropped in the...
by Kathleen Staudt | Sep 10, 2022 | attentiveness, prayer, spiritual direction/companionship, spirituality
As the academic/program year begins I step back into the deeply satisfying work I’ve been called to as a spiritual director/spiritual Companion. Trying to explain the gift of this work to people, I recently shared this quote from the 20th century Anglican...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 20, 2022 | Easter, prayer, spirituality, Uncategorized
I am giving a talk soon entitled “attending to Emmaus moments.” – I put it on the schedule at Christ Church Georgetown partly to invite myself to reflect on the way the Emmaus story has been important to me in my journey. The story shows up in Luke...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
I see that I posted the same poem 2 years ago as my “poem of the season” for Eastertide. It is based on a meditation in the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises that I have found fruitful — a scene that must have happened, the risen Jesus appearing to his...