Anne Thériault
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Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. [email protected]
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This is a really great article to read, almost as a practice prompt. There is lots of good discussion about how to practice, and also she quotes Rob Christ on a topic I can really relate to: the problem of spiritual rigidity and the damage it does to your ability to develop and maintain faith.
Today in I’m Very Bad at Self-Promotion, this article that I wrote about the rise of contemplative practices in contemporary Christian contemplative practices just came out. This was really fun to research and write! I could write a whole giant essay about my dude St. Benedict and his Rule.
Why today’s spiritual seekers are reviving ancient practices | Broadview Magazine
Contemplative Christianity offers calm in tumultuous times
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November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is a really great article to read, almost as a practice prompt. There is lots of good discussion about how to practice, and also she quotes Rob Christ on a topic I can really relate to: the problem of spiritual rigidity and the damage it does to your ability to develop and maintain faith.
What a weird, lazy scam - this account is tagging tons of lefty writers/academics/etc in hopes of getting visibility for this blatantly AI-generated “book”, with the end goal of getting people to spend $4.99 on an ebook full of bullshit
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
What a weird, lazy scam - this account is tagging tons of lefty writers/academics/etc in hopes of getting visibility for this blatantly AI-generated “book”, with the end goal of getting people to spend $4.99 on an ebook full of bullshit
A genuinely fun thing about writing this article was that one of the people I interviewed was a Presbyterian pastor named Rob Christ. Trying to figure out how to quote him without making it sound like I was quoting Jesus Christ, was an interesting challenge. Also, talk about nominative determinism!
Today in I’m Very Bad at Self-Promotion, this article that I wrote about the rise of contemplative practices in contemporary Christian contemplative practices just came out. This was really fun to research and write! I could write a whole giant essay about my dude St. Benedict and his Rule.
Why today’s spiritual seekers are reviving ancient practices | Broadview Magazine
Contemplative Christianity offers calm in tumultuous times
broadview.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
A genuinely fun thing about writing this article was that one of the people I interviewed was a Presbyterian pastor named Rob Christ. Trying to figure out how to quote him without making it sound like I was quoting Jesus Christ, was an interesting challenge. Also, talk about nominative determinism!
PSA: there are two churches on Bloor Street called St. Paul’s*. If you are speaking at an event at St. Paul’s on Bloor Street, I highly recommend actually reading the address and not just being like “oh yeah, I totally know that church, no problem”
*I know one of them is Trinity-St. Paul’s. I KNOW.
*I know one of them is Trinity-St. Paul’s. I KNOW.
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
PSA: there are two churches on Bloor Street called St. Paul’s*. If you are speaking at an event at St. Paul’s on Bloor Street, I highly recommend actually reading the address and not just being like “oh yeah, I totally know that church, no problem”
*I know one of them is Trinity-St. Paul’s. I KNOW.
*I know one of them is Trinity-St. Paul’s. I KNOW.
Today in I’m Very Bad at Self-Promotion, this article that I wrote about the rise of contemplative practices in contemporary Christian contemplative practices just came out. This was really fun to research and write! I could write a whole giant essay about my dude St. Benedict and his Rule.
Why today’s spiritual seekers are reviving ancient practices | Broadview Magazine
Contemplative Christianity offers calm in tumultuous times
broadview.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Today in I’m Very Bad at Self-Promotion, this article that I wrote about the rise of contemplative practices in contemporary Christian contemplative practices just came out. This was really fun to research and write! I could write a whole giant essay about my dude St. Benedict and his Rule.
Exciting thrift store find: royal blue velour housecoat (dressing gown? peignoir???), embroidered details on the collar and cuffs, made in Canada. Wearing it tonight with one of my large white cotton April Cornell nighties and I feel like a very Canadian princess.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Exciting thrift store find: royal blue velour housecoat (dressing gown? peignoir???), embroidered details on the collar and cuffs, made in Canada. Wearing it tonight with one of my large white cotton April Cornell nighties and I feel like a very Canadian princess.
Thrilled to announce that 14yo will once again be part of a three person team operating a giant camel puppet in this year’s pageant
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Thrilled to announce that 14yo will once again be part of a three person team operating a giant camel puppet in this year’s pageant
Someone just told me that Maggie Nelson quotes me in her new chapbook The Slicks (about Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift) and I’m sorry, I am screaming, crying, throwing up?????
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Someone just told me that Maggie Nelson quotes me in her new chapbook The Slicks (about Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift) and I’m sorry, I am screaming, crying, throwing up?????
Mildly infuriating: the train is stuck in Port Hope because there is an apparently abandoned car on the tracks. Man, it’s always something!
Mildly interesting: they just did a land acknowledgment on the Via train, which is the first time I’ve ever experienced that
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Mildly infuriating: the train is stuck in Port Hope because there is an apparently abandoned car on the tracks. Man, it’s always something!
Mildly interesting: they just did a land acknowledgment on the Via train, which is the first time I’ve ever experienced that
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Mildly interesting: they just did a land acknowledgment on the Via train, which is the first time I’ve ever experienced that
I really need to practice saying “what a weird, rude thing to say” to the people who say weird, rude things to me
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I really need to practice saying “what a weird, rude thing to say” to the people who say weird, rude things to me
I always wonder what doctors make of influencers who are filming their children going through medical crises (or even non-emergency health stuff). Like, it cannot feel normal to have someone be like “hey, I’m just going to set up my phone to record me tearfully helping my kid with their CT scan”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I always wonder what doctors make of influencers who are filming their children going through medical crises (or even non-emergency health stuff). Like, it cannot feel normal to have someone be like “hey, I’m just going to set up my phone to record me tearfully helping my kid with their CT scan”?
Me: what was your favourite breakfast that you had in Spain?
14yo: I want to say the ones that involved pastry and chocolate, so I guess that was all of them.
14yo: I want to say the ones that involved pastry and chocolate, so I guess that was all of them.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Me: what was your favourite breakfast that you had in Spain?
14yo: I want to say the ones that involved pastry and chocolate, so I guess that was all of them.
14yo: I want to say the ones that involved pastry and chocolate, so I guess that was all of them.
There are a bunch of retired teachers from my sisters’ high school who volunteer with me at the meal program that my church runs. I was telling one of them this story about how my middle sister got in trouble for kissing her boyfriend in the school hallway and got sent to the principal’s office …
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
There are a bunch of retired teachers from my sisters’ high school who volunteer with me at the meal program that my church runs. I was telling one of them this story about how my middle sister got in trouble for kissing her boyfriend in the school hallway and got sent to the principal’s office …
14yo: if St Patrick was alive today, he’d probably try to explain the Trinity through men’s products that are like shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. It’s three in one and the only thing you need in the shower! Just like Jesus!
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
14yo: if St Patrick was alive today, he’d probably try to explain the Trinity through men’s products that are like shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. It’s three in one and the only thing you need in the shower! Just like Jesus!
Representation (of Acadian trash) matters ✨
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Representation (of Acadian trash) matters ✨
Someone recommended this novel (The Time In Between by María Dueñas) for me to read while I was in Spain, and I thought it wouldn’t be my thing but I’m really enjoying it! I got it from the library as an ebook on the Libby app, really putting my household’s 15 year old Kobo to work.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Someone recommended this novel (The Time In Between by María Dueñas) for me to read while I was in Spain, and I thought it wouldn’t be my thing but I’m really enjoying it! I got it from the library as an ebook on the Libby app, really putting my household’s 15 year old Kobo to work.
This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!
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And if that sounds cool, but you happen to live far away, and *somehow* haven't listened to the "And Also Some Women" podcast yet, well, I've got a link for you: broadview.org/podcasts/mar...
"And Also Some Women" EP #1 - Mary Magdalene | Broadview Magazine
In our debut episode of And Also Some Women, hosts Junia Joplin and Anne Thériault delve into Mary Magdalene, a figure who has been depicted in many different ways: as a sex worker, as the apostle to ...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
And if that sounds cool, but you happen to live far away, and *somehow* haven't listened to the "And Also Some Women" podcast yet, well, I've got a link for you: broadview.org/podcasts/mar...
I’m speaking at this really fun, feminist event about the Virgin Mary on November 25th. If you’re in Toronto and this seems like it would be up your alley, I’d love to see you there! Kadie is an amazing and dynamic woman and I love her vision of revisiting biblical women through a modern lens.
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’m speaking at this really fun, feminist event about the Virgin Mary on November 25th. If you’re in Toronto and this seems like it would be up your alley, I’d love to see you there! Kadie is an amazing and dynamic woman and I love her vision of revisiting biblical women through a modern lens.
Had an appointment for a covid vaccine at Loblaws yesterday, only to show up and be told that they’d run out. I said, “but I booked online, they texted to confirm, couldn’t they text to cancel?” The woman said she’d tried to call everyone, did I want to rebook? They’d have more supply in a few days.
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Had an appointment for a covid vaccine at Loblaws yesterday, only to show up and be told that they’d run out. I said, “but I booked online, they texted to confirm, couldn’t they text to cancel?” The woman said she’d tried to call everyone, did I want to rebook? They’d have more supply in a few days.
So! What’s everyone doing tomorrow to observe the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So! What’s everyone doing tomorrow to observe the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Hanging out with this cuddly 15 lb menace. His father is a large neighbourhood stray named Dirk Moosehead. His mother is a delicate sweetheart who’s named Sabine after one of the dolls in Eloise. Together they’ve created one of the most terrible cats of all time.
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hanging out with this cuddly 15 lb menace. His father is a large neighbourhood stray named Dirk Moosehead. His mother is a delicate sweetheart who’s named Sabine after one of the dolls in Eloise. Together they’ve created one of the most terrible cats of all time.
I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s a way to spin my trip into an article (or a series of articles). Not sure if there’s an angle that makes it all interesting beyond “North American lady goes to EUROPE”. The only thing I can think of is offering travel tips for parents with teens.
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s a way to spin my trip into an article (or a series of articles). Not sure if there’s an angle that makes it all interesting beyond “North American lady goes to EUROPE”. The only thing I can think of is offering travel tips for parents with teens.
I think I’m a good traveller because when I’m on the road I (generally) have a low threshold for being delighted by novelty while at the same time having a high capacity for turning lemons into lemonade. If you need someone to tell you why a holiday disappointment is good, actually, I’m your man.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I think I’m a good traveller because when I’m on the road I (generally) have a low threshold for being delighted by novelty while at the same time having a high capacity for turning lemons into lemonade. If you need someone to tell you why a holiday disappointment is good, actually, I’m your man.