Carolyn Ancell

Carolyn Ancell

Carolyn Ancell is a writer and musician in Tucson, Arizona. She has authored 18 books and numerous articles on liturgy and the liturgical arts and is a retired "chaplain with a harp."

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Opening boxes of the soul with Jesus in prayer

Soul Seeing: One self-described "people pleaser" reflects on the prayer experience that changed her.

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Be fully present to God in the sunrise and sunset

May you and I come to see with an open and observant heart. As if for the first time. As if for the last time.

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At 80, my heart has no boundaries

On her 80th birthday, Carolyn Ancell looks back before looking forward to an exciting new stage of the spiritual life.

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Death, where is your sting?

The death of Carolyn Ancell's mother revealed what God was calling her to do with her life.

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In a church that has yet to deal justly with women, I stay a keeper of the vision

I will forever ask, "Why?" Why couldn't I be ordained by my own church for service in hospice, hospital, a retreat center, the military, a women's prison, a battered women's shelter, a parish church?

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