As an interspiritual contemplative, scholar, writer and teacher, I have served as a professor of religious studies, philosophy and theology at Mount Marty College (now University), in varied ministry contexts, and as spiritual practitioner, director, and organizational founder.
I am deeply committed to individual and societal transformation. Toward that end, I work as a spiritual director and Integral Master Coach™ with organizations and adults from varied faith backgrounds, as well as with the “spiritual but not religious.” I specialize in a fully fully ecumenical Christian spirituality and the emergent interspirituality of Integral Theory. I work with individual clients honoring their longings and growth as a subtle (and sometimes not-so subtle!) integration of multiple aspects of human being: spirit, soul, psyche, and soma as embodied presence in the world.
I continue a lifelong pursuit of transcendent-yet-practicable wisdom deeply embedded in the world’s spiritual traditions. Throughout my Christian formation, I have had the privilege of embracing a vigorous ecumenical and interreligious background. I formerly lived as a professed member of a Franciscan-styled lay monastic community for over 15 years. During that formative sojourn, my husband and I co-founded an alternative house of prayer hermitage, practicing alternations of charitable service and monastic practice in the rural wilds of northeast Nebraska. I continue to practice a robust lay monastic orientation in my spirituality.
I have served in a wealth of capacities in regional leadership; pastoral, music and liturgical ministry; spiritual direction and educational formation. 
More recently, I have been privileged to publish, present, and teach a range of themes in Integral Theory’s application within Christian spirituality and theology. In 2014, I extensively edited and revised Ann Kessler, O.S.B.’s previously published Benedictine Men and Women of Courage: Roots & History
As the path continues its unfolding, I remain committed to the sometimes ineffability of spiritual life and practice as a font not only of theological insight and understanding but as a core source of down-to-earth practical wisdom.
Thank you for your interest and may your path guide to fulfillment of your deeply known and yet-unseen longings and hopes.