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Discover a rich legacy of audacious women who forged a spirituality that is more inclusive, surprising, and empowering than we ever imagined.. "The feminist reading of women mystics I've wanted for ages . . . invites us into the hopeful possibility for communal healing that we desperately need right now." - Sarah Bessey, bestselling author of Field Notes for the Wilderness and Jesus Feminist. Is there a Christian spirituality that embraces the entire reality of womanhood?. The answer, Shannon K. Evans suggests, is an emphatic yes. There is a spirituality that meets us in every part of our lives, developed by the women who came before us. Six mystics - Teresa of Ávila, Margery Kempe, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, and Thérèse of Lisieux - revealed a faith big enough to hold the female experiences of sex and desire, the yearning for bodily autonomy, the challenges of motherhood and identity, as well as life with male authority and - sometimes - violence.
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Shannon K. Evans is passionate about exploring deeper ways of contemplating God so that our experience of the Divine grows further loving and curious, rather than static and complacent. She is the author of the books Feminist Prayers for My Daughter and Rewilding Motherhood, among others. Find her on Instagram as @shannonkevans or on her website, Shannon and her spouse are raising chickens and children on the Iowa prairie.
