grateful for theologies of earthly entanglement ✨

"We humans are at all times the sum of our relationships. Each one of us is a relational matrix, and therein lies our true evolutionary and spiritual identity." Diarmuid O'Murchu

every time I think I have a semi-original theological thought, I find out Diarmuid O’Murchu wrote a whole dang book about whatever it is 20-30 years ago

“a story is a way of stretching time.” this masterpiece of novel is really going to stick with me ✨

“We can believe anything. We can preach anything. But what truly shapes our character is what we practice.” Simran Jeet Singh in The Light We Give

Every so often, people reach out who'd like to live in a monastery and ask me how they might do so. Well, if you're a woman between the ages of 22 and 35, and want to live and work with a rad Benedictine community for 3-6 months, lmk!

“It used to be that people were born as part of a community, and had to find their place as individuals. Now people are born as individuals, and have to find their community.” Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort

wow, leave it to Andrew Garfield to turn a materialistic q&a into a philosophical reflection 🥲 youtube.com/watch?v=tzemmE…

“'Our humanity would be a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us,' Francis Bacon wrote. It is important to remember that Divinity stirred first in a woman and because of her in the rest of us." Joan Chittister, OSB, Monastery Almanac, on Immaculate Conception

🔥🙌✨ tiktok.com/@lizzo/video/7…

Ezra Klein on Twitter and digital communication, Quaker tradition and silence. So good. "These are technologies that lend themselves to cacophony, not community." nytimes.com/2022/12/11/opi…

Mister Rogers is just so Benedictine.✨

“What if we reframed ‘living with uncertainty’ to ‘navigating mystery’? There’s more energy in that phrase. The hum of imaginative voltage. And is our life not a mystery school, a seat of earthy instruction?” Martin Shaw in Emergence Magazine

Mary Oliver, Evidence; and “some fresh morning.” ❄️✨

. Katie Gordon shares The Formation Project, a guide that centers on supporting people as they develop their spiritual life. Read more on #InterfaithAmerica: bit.ly/40mYSsM

Loving Rachel Martin's series Enlighten Me. Spot on insight: "America is getting less churchy. But is it getting any less spiritual? I don't think so. I think it just means our faith communities and institutions aren't giving people what they need anymore” npr.org/2023/09/10/119…

What spiritual story will you write? - my latest tinyletter, featuring my recent Chautauqua UU sermon, and info on an upcoming "write your own theology" eCourse. tinyletter.com/KatieGordon/le…

oops forgot to update y'all. I began this year on Substack, subscribe to follow along with "Following the Monastic Impulse," exploring our wisdom traditions + contemporary spirituality, as experienced in my monastic community in Erie PA: katieraegordon.substack.com