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Right after I finished seminary, I, like most seminary grads, was in a harried state. I had spent the last couple years routinely facing...

Rachel Parsons
Feb 25, 20193 min read


Episode 1: What is Spiritual Direction?
What is Spiritual Direction? Who is it for, and what does it do? We’re 4 Denver Area Spiritual Directors with a passion to educate on...

Rachel Parsons
Feb 22, 20191 min read


Body Scan Meditation and the Sacred
The year was...2016. I was working three part-time jobs: cramming my feet into high heels on the way to hospice chaplain visits and...

Rachel Parsons
Jan 28, 20193 min read


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


Dancing Like Everyone’s Watching; or How to Let Your Body Be a Body
Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. -Exodus...

Rachel Parsons
Nov 27, 20183 min read


What Even is “Spirituality”?
Yadav was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India. He had a Hindu upbringing, but when he moved to the United States to study he started to...

Rachel Parsons
Oct 23, 20183 min read


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


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


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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