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Abby Luca
- May 9
- 6 min
becoming naturalized
finding your relationship to place holding patterns are funny things. as one half of a couple who's worked through the stresses and...
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Abby Luca
- Mar 24
- 7 min
parallelogram season
actively crafting the learning you wished you'd had as i head into the end of my time in an interfaith chaplaincy program, many...
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Abby Luca
- Mar 13
- 13 min
finding our bearings
when the press of everything threatens us one of the amazing truths of being a human is that, aside from small temporal details, there is...
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Abby Luca
- Mar 6
- 3 min
wisdom councils
reviving and revamping old models of support thinking back on your life, when were the times that you felt most calmly, sturdily, and...
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Abby Luca
- Feb 28
- 12 min
the power of winter
roadmaps for reclaiming our time stepping out of the boil say the word "january" to anyone in academia, and odds are you'll actually feel...
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Abby Luca
- Feb 22
- 6 min
experiments in everyday chaplaincy 4
susan silk's ring theory (image credit: wes bausmith) a model for knowing how to relate in episode 3 of this series, i gave some examples...
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Abby Luca
- Feb 15
- 7 min
experiments in everyday chaplaincy 3
running with metaphors (pictured: in-process office space for the hearth chaplain!) in my work a a midwife, a chaplain, and a human...
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Abby Luca
- Feb 6
- 12 min
finding our new skins
lessons from the selkies art credit: a. len bell @loimestudios the magic of metaphor when working with personal spiritual or...
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Abby Luca
- Jan 30
- 6 min
third things
(or, who wants to start a book club?) a digression into learning models as a teacher, i've had occasions, both beautifully fluid and rich...
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Abby Luca
- Jan 23
- 4 min
the self in three dimensions
your depth, breadth, and length who are you? it's a perpetual question that follows (and sometimes haunts) us, deceptively suggesting...
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Abby Luca
- Jan 16
- 5 min
reflectionary: divine liminality
written for a chime interfaith service delivered on 1/16/22 welcome to the divine in-between, to the holy holding, to the liminal space...
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Abby Luca
- Jan 11
- 6 min
what interfaith chaplains are and aren't
clarifying the role of interfaith spiritual care outside of the world of organized religion, it can be difficult to conceive of the role...
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Abby Luca
- Jan 3
- 4 min
reflectionary: bless this mess
sermon from a chime interfaith service on 4/18/21 sometimes, in seeking one self-defined or preconceived type of spiritual experience, we...
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Abby Luca
- Dec 26, 2021
- 4 min
winter intention-setting
a practice and a ritual if you ask me, today is a pretty sweet spot. smack dab in the heart of the winter holidays, we're halfway...
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Abby Luca
- Dec 19, 2021
- 4 min
experiments in everyday chaplaincy 2
you're more than just a heart and a mind during a retreat weekend in my chaplaincy program, i was being chaplained by a fellow...
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Abby Luca
- Dec 17, 2021
- 5 min
the art of the "ta-da list"
self-care through recognizing and honoring what we *DO* do in a day a mentor of mine recently shared that a goal of hers was to work less...
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Abby Luca
- Dec 2, 2021
- 4 min
experiments in everyday chaplaincy 1
a different way to connect humans are, despite our modern narratives around rugged individualism, fundamentally wired for connection. we...
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Abby Luca
- Nov 24, 2021
- 6 min
the power of "yes, and..."
honest wholeness for the holidays at the beginning of my chaplaincy training program, we had a weekend workshop teacher who shared with...
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Abby Luca
- Oct 22, 2021
- 5 min
an invitation to midwifery students
from academic advisor to student chaplain tl;dr. how do we stay connected? while buttoning up after one of many last cohort classes, i...
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