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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


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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