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The gift of centering prayer: finding unity through silence

July 7, 2025 • Silence

This Soul Seeing essay originally ran in the July 5, 2025, issue of the National Catholic Reporter: As I drove down the New York State Thruway, headed toward what promised to be an inspiring event on the legacy of Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating and the ...

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The Risk of Christmas

December 22, 2023 • Advent

A Christmas poem written by Madeleine L'Engle in 1973 but sounding incredibly timely for all of us living in a troubled world today: This is no time for a ...

The uncomfortable reality of the Advent message

December 12, 2023 • Life Lines

The Advent season — with its message to “Be watchful! Be alert!” — felt uncomfortably timely for me this year. Coming off a recent health scare, I have been ...

Not called to be the GOAT

November 25, 2023 • Give Us This Day

My latest reflection from Give Us This Day, based on the readings for the day: Jesus doles out some tough love in today’s Gospel, which echoes the equally ...

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Change and Challenge: New podcast is up. Finally!

February 15, 2022 • Life in My 50s

The podcast returns — finally! — with Episode 5 exploring change and the challenges that come with it, even when we want that change. Transformation is never ...

Lost Generations? No one to blame but ourselves

February 10, 2022 • Life Lines

Back when my husband, Dennis, and I were teaching a two-year confirmation prep program at our parish in upstate New York, I wrote a column saying that when I ...

Registration is open for Stillpoint Retreat Sept. 9-11

January 31, 2022 • retreats

Registration is now open for the annual Stillpoint Retreat at Pyramid Life Center to be held Friday, Sept. 9, through Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Spots are ...

Celebrating 14 years here on Not Strictly Spiritual and gearing up for new adventures to come

January 24, 2022 • Cravings Tribe

Today marks the 14th anniversary of this blog. I launched it back in 2008 on the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of writers, not really knowing ...

Fear Factor

January 21, 2022 • Give Us This Day

It seems so straightforward: Jesus appoints his Apostles. There doesn’t seem to be much to delve into here. We know how this Gospel (Mark 3:13-19) turns out. ...

Knowing — and doing — what we’re born to do

January 7, 2022 • Life Lines

Hanging on my office door is an image of Joan of Arc in all her courageous glory, with a version of her famous quote: “I am not afraid. I was born to do ...

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