A Light That Renews, Restores, and Calls Us Forward
A Letter From Our Executive Director
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. — John 1:5 Dear Friends, After last…
December 22, 2025
A Letter From Our Executive Director
Finding a Way to Fly Free
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Margie Winters, Program Director, invites me and the others in the room to look closely at the images…
November 29, 2025Sharing Stories of Resilience Leads Us to Hope
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, I sit in Cranaleith’s dining hall, joined at the table by Blanca and Jodie from the New Sanctuary…
September 4, 2025Finding Hope in Real Times: A Radical Act of Resilience
A Letter From Our Executive Director“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and…
August 7, 2025Living In the Time of the “Both/And”
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, The staff from the Drueding Center are on site—laughing and calling to one another in front of the…
July 9, 2025We Have a Pope!
A Letter From Our Executive Director"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." John 10:27 Dear Friends, “We have a Pope!”…
June 13, 2025Finding Resilience
A Letter From Our Executive Director"We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not…
March 2, 2025The Darkness That We Share Together
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, In the office, we bend over hundreds and hundreds of white paper sacks—scooping mugs full of dusty sand…
January 26, 2025Growing in Wondrous Ways
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Monday morning, Sr. Maria rings my home number to let me know the news. An enormous branch from…
December 17, 2024In Connection With One Another
A Letter From Our Executive Director, InitiativesDear Friends, Sr. Maria stands at my office desk and points, suddenly, past my shoulder to the open window behind…
October 24, 2024Connecting to a Deeper Source
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorFor what is the mystical life but God coming to do what we cannot do? - Ruth Barrows, OCD Dear…
August 2, 2024The Divine Within Yourself and One Another
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, For our staff retreat on Monday, I hurry to the boardroom, gripping two heavy boxes of mirrors that…
June 28, 2024The Sanctuary That is Cranaleith Spiritual Center
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Elizabeth (Director of Hosted Groups) and I kneel on the rough planks of the front porch of the…
May 29, 2024Seeing Our Faces in the Light
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorMay 5, 2024 Dear Friends, Photographs lie in neat piles on my desk, but I am stressed because of a…
May 6, 2024Shadow and Light
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, My husband, youngest daughter and I will be racing to upstate New York this Monday, chasing the solar…
April 5, 2024The Glimmering Light of Hope
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, The tour guide, ten college students and I walk as quickly as we can from the parked bus,…
March 1, 2024Listening for the Waters to Rush Free
A Letter From Our Executive Director"May the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you…
February 2, 2024A New Journey
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Beloved Cranaleith Community, As we stand on the threshold of a new year, all of us at Cranaleith are…
December 22, 2023Listening Deeply: A Profoundly Powerful Act
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Parked in the cell phone lot at the Philadelphia International Airport, I listen for a call. Two of…
December 1, 2023Listen for the Language of Wholeness
A Letter From Our Executive DirectorAll this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving…
November 2, 2023
