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...
by Kathleen Staudt | Jul 7, 2020 | anti-racism, Justice, poetry
Years ago, visiting the Jefferson Memorial, I noticed these words inscribed on the wall – I am surprised that there hasn’t been more mention of them in our recent national conversation about racism and white supremacy He writes – way too mildly, we can all...
by Kathleen Staudt | May 31, 2020 | Justice, mourning, poetry, prayer
The church celebrates the Feast of Pentecost today: the day when the first Christians, gathered in fear after Jesus’ Ascension, received the gift of the Holy Spirit, coming as tongues of flame, with a sound like a rushing wind. (Acts 2:1-11). I write this as...
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. ...