Susanna Bertelsen

By Susanna Bertelsen Decades ago, in the 1980’s, busy with our three school aged children in our Minnetonka home, I received a frantic call from my mother in Ohio, who announced over the phone, “Your brother has Schizophrenia. And they put him on Stelazine.”  Taking a...

By Susanna Bertelsen In late July, 2017, my husband and I went to Germany to visit the “Lutherstadts” or the historical sites of Martin Luther and the Reformation.  We saw Eiseleben, his birth and childhood home, where he grew up in a family of affluence, (his father...

By Susanna Bertelsen June 1, 2017 will be remembered by me as an extraordinary day.  I attended my first staff meeting at Loyola Spirituality Center in St. Paul with a warm welcome into their vibrant community of Spiritual Directors.  Later in the afternoon that same...