by Kathleen Staudt | Dec 8, 2020 | Advent, retreats, spirituality
We come to the Advent season and this year is for me, as for many, a disorienting time: no one coming home for the holidays, so I lose one of my most treasured incarnational symbols of the coming of Love — expressed through all our gatherings. And we have zoom,...
by Kathleen Staudt | Jun 15, 2020 | Evelyn Underhill, retreats, spirituality
Today, June 15, is the feast day of Anglican writer and spiritual guide Evelyn Underhill. A “hinge” event for me each year, in my own spiritual calendar, is the Day of Quiet Reflection in honor of Underhill that is sponsored annually by the Evelyn Underhill...
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...