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Nonreligious Thoughts on Hope
Content warning: mental illness, religious upbringing, hopelessness When I was in the thick of my religious upbringing, I remember...

Rachel Parsons
Mar 19, 20245 min read
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Video: What is Embodied Spirituality?
What is the body's relationship to the sacred? How do our bodies reveal the sacred to ourselves and to each other? How can you involve...

Rachel Parsons
Aug 17, 20201 min read
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Believing in Magic Part 1: Rachel Gets Personal
Amethyst and flowers on the table Is it real or a fable Well I suppose a friend is a friend -Sufjan Stevens I was recently rummaging...

Rachel Parsons
Jan 23, 20203 min read
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Be Joyful or Something: Thoughts on New Year's Eve
When I was a good youth group kid, I was rip-roaring ready to convert my friends to Evangelical Protestantism (or "Christianity," as I...

Rachel Parsons
Dec 31, 20183 min read
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Bossing Rocks Around
On a crisp October evening in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, my then boyfriend and I found ourselves skirting along an ever-darkening...

Rachel Parsons
Oct 2, 20183 min read
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The Literal Body of Christ's Literal Body of Christ and the Literal Body of Christ
I talk a lot about bodies. I cannot overemphasize the inherently physical nature of our humanity and the importance of living into our...

Rachel Parsons
Jul 6, 20183 min read
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More of C. S. Lewis’s Greatest Heresies, or How to Not Hate Your Body
Some days I find myself in euphoric rapture about the miracle of my physical being and in profound gratitude that there are theological...

Rachel Parsons
Apr 23, 20182 min read
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