Holy Cross Day: A Special Feast Day for Companions
It is Holy Cross Day, 2021. Companions celebrate this occasion at Adelynrood, our beloved home base and retreat center, with a procession to what we call the “Great Cross.” It stands on a granite outcropping, reminding us who we are
The Courage to Risk, to Love, to Act: Reflections on Companion Conference 2021
Companion Conference always manages to tell us what we need to hear.
The Call of Spiritual Direction
Sometimes the “changes and chances of this life,” instead of wearing us down, present us with something life-giving instead. Which is how I found myself drawn to spiritual direction.
Mechthild of Magdeburg: Leaping into Love
Mystic, visionary, artist of transcendent word imagery, self-described “unruly woman of God” – Mechthild of Magdeburg has a voice that soars with radiance across the 800 years since she was alive.
LIBERATING LOVE THROUGH PRAYER AND ACTION
In her inspiring keynote, Civil Rights leader Ruby Sales insisted on the connection between love and liberation. To people of color she said, “You have to love yourself. You can’t let yourself be defined by those who do not love
LISTENING TO INDIGENOUS VOICES
For Midwest Companion chapters, our October 2020 regional conference demonstrated this dynamic. The theme was Listening to Indigenous Voices: What Do We Need to Hear?