Space Within
We’re a mother and daughter from the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, finding a calling together to create space for a multitude of individual and collective spiritual journeys. Aware or unaware, each person seeks and finds spiritual meaning in many of the same words and images—sacred or secular, ancient or new. As lifelong writers, sometime artists, and current ministers (one lay, one ordained), we offer an array of meditations, images, prayers, prose, and poetry we have created to accompany your journey. We invite you to sample our offerings—and shop our books, if you wish—as you enrich your personal “space within” and as you share with others who walk the way with you.
Dianne M. Del Giorno
Dianne M. Del Giorno completed her formal teaching career in 2015. Her early experiences ranged from high school teacher / journalism advisor / track and field coach to teacher educator and Board of Teaching member. Her later work was in a community college where she taught developmental education courses and led retreats for administrators, faculty, staff, and students. In 2004, Dianne became active in healing ministries, helping develop teams in faith communities. She continues healing ministry work as a volunteer and occasional workshop and retreat facilitator. The act and art of writing—fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, and meditations—has been a lifelong pursuit. Her most recent work, Sudden Nightfall, Quiet Sunrise: Sharings on Loss and Love, is a blend of poetry and prose. Dianne lives outside of Saint Paul, Minnesota, sharing an 11-acre pond with a dozen or so neighbors. Life on the pond, too full ever to be fully noticed, provides daily inspiration.
Emmy Kegler
Emmy Kegler is a pastor, author, and speaker called to ministry at the margins of the church, especially among LGBTQ+ Christians. She serves as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis, a small servant-hearted neighborhood congregation focused on feeding the hungry and community outreach.
Her first book, One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins, tells her story as a queer Christian called to ordained ministry and how it formed her relationship with Scripture.
As a pastor and writer, she is passionate about curating worship and theological practices that dismantle barriers to those historically marginalized by Christian practice. She believes in and works for a church rooted in accessibility, intentionality, integrity, and transformation, knowing that God is already out ahead of us creating expansive space for those most hungry for the good and liberating news of Jesus.
She lives in Minneapolis and enjoys biking, board games, books, and spending time with her wife Michelle and their two dogs and cat.