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Sacred GroundingDr. Aubrey Escobar

Writing


The thinking in process.

Essays on the integration of scholarship and embodied practice. Theological reflections written for people who think seriously. The intellectual lineage made personal. No listicles. No how-to posts. Long-form, essayistic, worth the read.


Recent

Why the theological claim that God took on flesh is not incidental to the practice of prayer, but its foundation.

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The 12th century Benedictine mystic named something that most leadership literature cannot: the divine greening power that depletion extinguishes.

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What happens when you read Pedagogy of the Oppressed not as a theory of education but as a theory of embodied consciousness.

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An honest account of what it costs to be a woman building something, and what it means to build from a full vessel instead.

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Anamnesis: The Undoing of Forgetting

November 202511 min read

The Eucharistic concept of making-present what was always real, and what it means for a practice of wholeness.

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What Arendt's distinction between labor, work, and action reveals about the particular depletion of women in institutional leadership.

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The Intellectual Lineage

Freire. Arendt. The liberation theologians. Hildegard von Bingen. The Catholic intellectual tradition. Polyvagal theory. These are the thinkers and traditions that appear in the writing, made personal, made lived.