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What Makes Someone an Unruly Mystic?
What connects Hildegard, Muir, and Einstein — and what their lives ask of us today.
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Hildegard Speaks
Read these texts of Hildegard Speaks out loud, hearing how Hildegard might have sounded, as you take your own pilgrimage along the Hildegard Way.
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What good movies are about Saints?
Best Saints and the saintly in modern movies?
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Asking a question is hard in live virtual events
As the filmmaker-pilgrim behind The Unruly Mystic Series, I have always found the answers more instructive than the questions. Learning what to ask in the first place — that is…
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Hildegard as Shaman?
Hildegard as Shaman: Matthew Fox writes in his Daily Meditations of 4/27/2021: “A shaman lives in two worlds at once. Poet Bill Everson speaks of the link shamans have with…
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Living saints today? Have you met any?
Where have all the saints gone? Living saints? Have you met any? Not a Hindu or Catholic Saint, placed on candle-lit altar or in rose garden. But a living saint…
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Saint Hildegard and the usefulness of Hops – Cheers!
A Time Before Hops Hops weren’t always used in beer brewing—in the earliest days, brewers used all kinds of plants to flavor beer. Generally, a beer created without the use…
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The Hildegard of Bingen Trail in Germany
Hildegard Pilgrimage Path “I love this sign, don’t you? I’ve traveled to a lot of holy places, but Bingen, Germany, is the only place where the pilgrimage route is marked…
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What was Saint Hildegard the Patron Saint of? Culinary arts? Creativity?
Culinary arts? Creativity? The arts? The question of what Saint Hildegard is the patron saint of came up recently when I was asked where I first heard of Saint Hildegard…
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September 17th is the Feast Day of St. Hildegard of Bingen
September 17th is a special day on the Catholic Church calendar as it is the feast day of a Doctor of the Church: St. Hildegard of Bingen.
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Now more than ever relevant!
Screenings Now more than ever, we all long for an order in which fairness, justice, and compassion for all people is demonstrated by our respective governments. Saint Hildegard had her…
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Remembering Linn Maxwell Keller
Linn Maxwell Keller was an embodiment of Saint Hildegard in both spirit and talent — truly worthy of being her own version of a patron saint of creativity. She didn’t…
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Nature view of Ecological Prophets John Muir and Saint Hildegard of Bingen
To honor the U.S. National Parks 100th Anniversary in 2016, I am proud to release the following clip from my new work in progress documentary, The Unruly Mystic: John Muir.…
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The Unruly Mystic and Unruly Me: Nicole Barchilon Frank
The following is taken from a review of The Unruly Mystic, by my longtime friend, Nicole Barchilon Frank, who was about to embark on her own 10 month spiritual sabbatical in…
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What’s showing next?
The title of this blog is what I say at the box office. I go to the movies at a random time and ask “what is showing next?” — and…