by Kathleen Staudt | May 18, 2020 | Easter, family, mourning
We have turned the corner toward the last Sunday of the great 50 days Christians celebrate as Eastertide. And so I need to poast a few thoughts about the season that is passing before we move into the next – grateful, in a way, for how liturgical seasons do provide...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 23, 2020 | Discernment, retreats, spirituality
Twenty years ago this season, I published an article in the Eastertide edition of the Sewanee Theological Review called “Discernment and the Work of the Church” drawing on my own experience as a lay person active in the church and constantly seeking God’s...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 4, 2020 | attentiveness, poetry, retreats, social distancing, spirituality
As a retreat leader I have always been most energized by working off the presence of those in the room and I do miss that physical closeness. A lot of retreat work I had scheduled for this spring has been cancelled or in a few cases has gone on line, but I thought...
by Kathleen Staudt | Mar 19, 2020 | nature, poetry
We lost my mom just before the pandemic took hold in our communities, so this spring, coinciding with the Lenten season, has been more than usual a season of loss, of grieving, of concern for so many kinds of suffering in our communities and our neighborhoods. ...