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The Art of Life
The Art of Life: Monastic Wisdom for Every Day (Twenty-Third Publications, 2013), written by Joan Chittister, OSB (Summer 1976), uses great works of art for inspiration as it offers daily reflections...
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Hopes and Fears
Bromleigh McCleneghan (Summers 2009 and 2011) and Lee Hull Moses (Summers 2009 and 2010), two longtime friends, who spent time together at the Collegeville Institute, have written a book about being...
View ArticleSuggested Memoirs
The following is a list of memoirs suggested for your reading pleasure. About a Mountain by John D’Agata Bayham Street: Essays in Longing by R Clark Bingo Night at the Fire Hall by Holland Chameleon...
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Faith and Writing Series
As we kick off 2014 and welcome applications for our summer writing workshops, we are beginning a new blog series on writing and the life of faith. Our first entry is an interview with Lauren Winner....
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My Job and My Joy is to Write
The second entry in our blog series on writing and the life of faith is an interview with Michael Dennis Browne. Michael is a poet, librettist and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He...
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Writing to Wake the Soul
Our blog series on writing and the life of faith continues this week with an interview with Rev. Karen Hering. Karen is a chaplain, consulting literary minister, and author of Writing to Wake the...
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Writing to Wake the Soul
This week’s entry in our blog series about writing and the life of faith is a second video interview with Rev. Karen Hering (click here to watch the first video). In this video, Karen describes her...
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Writing for the Benefit of the Church
What makes for good Christian writing? According to Marin Copenhaver, identifying traits of bad Christian writing can help provide some clues. “I don’t like pat writing, formulaic writing, writing...
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Listening to the Meaning of your Life
Next month Rev. Karen Hering will kick off our summer writing workshops with her four-day session, Awakening Theological Imagination in the Congregation: A Spiritual Practice of Writing with Karen...
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Wresting with God
At the age of 75, Fr. Kilian McDonnell, founder and president of the Collegeville Institute and a renowned ecumenist and theologian, began writing poetry. Seventeen years later, he has published four...
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Hopes and Fears from Collegeville Institute
Adam Copeland wrote this reflection while participating in a summer 2012 writing workshop, Theology in the Real World with Kathleen Norris, at the Collegeville Institute. “What are our hopes and fears...
View ArticleSuspended Sentences
Ingrid Rasmussen drafted this piece as an exercise in writing suspended sentences, while participating in the writing workshop Words that Sing II: Advanced Writing with Mary Nilsen. It contains...
View ArticleThimbleberries
Thimbleberries were not on my mind when I applied for a writing workshop at the Collegeville Institute. I wanted time set apart from the busyness and business of everyday life. I wanted a view of a...
View ArticleFinding My Introvert
I cannot remember the exact moment of recognition, but I think it occurred early afternoon on the second full day of our writing workshop. I rediscovered time. Oh, I forget what day of the week it was...
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A Way of Seeing - Why I Write (What I Write)
Like glasses, writing allows me to see the natural and the spiritual world more clearly, wholly, and truly. The post A Way of Seeing appeared first on Collegeville Institute.
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Chosen - Why I Write (What I Write)
I can’t quite bring myself to say that I’ve chosen to write about what I write about. It seems more accurate to say that the things I write about chose me. The post Chosen appeared first on...
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A Love Letter to Reading - Why I Write (What I Write)
As a child, I discovered through reading that my most secret and embarrassing thoughts were not so peculiar after all. Thanks to my mother, I am as much a professional reader as I am a writer. The...
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Meet the Maker - Why I Write (What I Write)
Write a poem, meet your Maker. Participate in creation. Fall into the hands of the living God. It’ll toast your marshmallow if you’re not careful. The post Meet the Maker appeared first on...
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Why I Write (What I Write) - A Reader’s Response
For me, writing is like trying to dislodge a pebble from my shoe. I write in an effort to draw my own attention and the attention of others to uncomfortable things, to matters in urgent need of...
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The Writer’s Life - Balancing Solitude and Community
Writers and artists require solitude. Where then, might community fit into the writer’s life?
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