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Rachel Parsons
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Video: What is Theology of the Body?
What is the body's relationship to the sacred? How do our bodies reveal the sacred to ourselves and to each other? How can you involve...
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Saint Gibson
Dec 10, 20193 min read
Nourished in Darkness: Tolerating Advent
Historically, I've chafed against Advent. As much as I love Christmas, It's hard for me to observe a season devoted to light when...
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Rachel Parsons
Dec 2, 20192 min read
Animate Dust: Poems for Embodiment
This month the Fratres Dei team got together to compile poetry of our own creation about our experiences with embodied spirituality. We...
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Kara Francisca Resneki
Sep 17, 20193 min read
Sometimes, Things Get Better
Sometimes it takes days, weeks, or months to see you’re beyond your limits. Sometimes it takes just as long to realize you’ve made a...
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Caroline Crook
Jul 24, 20194 min read
The Body in Stillness (and why I'm very bad at it)
It happens every single time. My mom drags me to her weekly Vinyasa Flow, or one of my friends has a coupon for a free class. I lumber my...
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Saint Gibson
May 30, 20195 min read
Ritual, Rosaries, and Prayers Written in Flesh
Hello wonder-workers and spiritual sojourners! It’s Saint, Fratres Dei’s social media manager and sometimes-theologian, back again to...
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Rachel Parsons
Jan 28, 20193 min read
Body Scan Meditation and the Sacred
The year was...2016. I was working three part-time jobs: cramming my feet into high heels on the way to hospice chaplain visits and...
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Rachel Parsons
Nov 27, 20183 min read
Dancing Like Everyone’s Watching; or How to Let Your Body Be a Body
Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. -Exodus...
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Rachel Parsons
Jul 6, 20183 min read
The Literal Body of Christ's Literal Body of Christ and the Literal Body of Christ
I talk a lot about bodies. I cannot overemphasize the inherently physical nature of our humanity and the importance of living into our...
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Rachel Parsons
Apr 23, 20182 min read
More of C. S. Lewis’s Greatest Heresies, or How to Not Hate Your Body
Some days I find myself in euphoric rapture about the miracle of my physical being and in profound gratitude that there are theological...
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