Sanctuary Woman
53 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsPodcast on an indefinite hiatus.
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47. White Womanhood and Everyday Antiracism with Jenny Booth Potter
April 10, 2023 17:48 - 38 minutes - 63.4 MBOn this episode, I have an incredible conversation with Jenny Booth Potter, a creative producer, storyteller, and co-host of The Next Question, a web series about expanding our imagination for racial justice. She has co-led racial justice trainings across the country for churches and organizations, and is the Chief Content Officer of HerSelf Media, a company that aims to create stories that empower and bring joy to Black women. I recently read her new book, Doing Nothing Is No Longer an Opti...
46. Faith in Transition with Natalie Drew
March 31, 2023 05:26 - 1 hour - 116 MBI'm excited to introduce you to Natalie Drew, a Christian who is also a transgender woman. Trigger Warning: Suicide is discussed at several points in this episode. Please do skip this episode if that could be a trigger for you. <3 Connect with Natalie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/natgrace79 Click here to help fund Natalie's upcoming gender-affirming procedure. March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility, and you may have heard that the transgender community has been...
45. Unsilencing Our Stories to Silence Sexual Shame with Jessica Harris
February 16, 2023 09:25 - 44 minutes - 78.9 MBWelcome to Sanctuary Woman, a place that invites women to show up with their whole minds and their whole bodies rather than suppress that which the church may have told us is shameful. Many Christian women have nowhere to turn and are looking for the brave spaces, the safe spaces, where their sexual shame can be spoken, set free, and can finally be undone. Our guest today, Jessica Harris, has been there, and she has made it her mission to break the silence, banish the shame, and bring ...
44. Peace, Love & The Body of Christ with Sara Billups
February 09, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes - 55.6 MBSara Billups is a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator who is completing her Doctor of Ministry in the Sacred Art of Writing at the Peterson Center for the Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary. She works to help wavering Christians remain steadfast through cultural storms and continues to hope for the flourishing of the Church amid deep political and cultural division in America. Sara is the author of the new book Orphaned Believers: How a Generation of Christian Ex...
43. Let Me Be Hopeful With You
February 02, 2023 18:31 - 16 minutes - 27.9 MBWelcome back to Sanctuary Woman! More resources for women recovering from purity culture can be found at https://sanctuarywoman.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarywoman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanctuarywoman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/morganstrehlow Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.
42. An (Un)Racialized Body of Christ with Rev. Starlette Thomas
May 16, 2022 20:35 - 38 minutes - 71.4 MBReverend Starlette Thomas joins us to help us see our skin color for what it is and deconstruct what it is not as she pastorally and prophetically disrupts and dismantles the racialized body of Christ so that we can reconstruct and re-member a Church body that reflects Christ and his gospel. Learn more about Starlette's work at The Raceless Gospel and Good Faith Media. Show notes can be found at www.sanctuarywoman.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarywoman/ Twitter: htt...
41. Someone Other Than a Mother with Erin S. Lane
May 05, 2022 21:46 - 26 minutes - 49 MBOur guest today is Erin S. Lane, author of the new book Someone Other Than A Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman's Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood. Erin is a writer, theologian, and someone other than a mother. That’s the name of her latest book, by the way. Erin has a master’s degree from Duke Divinity School with a focus on gender studies. Mentored by Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal, she works as a vocational retreat facilitator, helping people dis...
40. Body Scan Meditation
April 25, 2022 21:21 - 15 minutes - 28.3 MB[Original airdate: Feb 8, 2021] On this episode of Sanctuary Woman, I want to invite you to reconnect your mind, with your body, through awareness of your body, listening to what your body is communicating to you. What God is communicating to you, through your body. This episode will lead you through a prayer body scan meditation and close with a reading of Psalm 139. To download the accompanying Examen guidebook PDF to journal through the Examen, click here. Connect with Morgan: @san...
40. Body Scan Meditation
April 25, 2022 21:21[Original airdate: Feb 8, 2021] On this episode of Sanctuary Woman, I want to invite you to reconnect your mind, with your body, through awareness of your body, listening to what your body is communicating to you. What God is communicating to you, through your body. This episode will lead you through a prayer body scan meditation and close with a reading of Psalm 139. To download the accompanying Examen guidebook PDF to journal through the Examen, click here. Connect with Morgan: @san...
39. Divine & Disabled Bodies with Dr. Amy Kenny
April 18, 2022 15:09 - 26 minutes - 48.3 MBOur guest today is Dr. Amy Kenny, who says that much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection. Dr. Kenny is a disabled scholar and a Shakespeare Lecturer whose research focuses on medical and bodily themes in literature. Her forthcoming book, My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, shows that the church is missing out on the prophetic witness and blessing of disability - and until we cultivate church spaces whe...
38. Abundant Bodies and Faithful Fat Liberation with Amanda Martinez Beck
April 04, 2022 04:29 - 28 minutes - 52 MBAmanda Martinez Beck is a fat activist and body peace coach specializing in the intersection of human dignity, body liberation, and religion. She is the author of Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Save Me and the forthcoming book More of You: The Fat Girl’s Field Guide to the Modern World. Amanda is also the co-creator and co-host of the Fat & Faithful podcast. Pre-order Amanda's book. Follow Amanda on Instagram @your_body_is_good. Join the All Bodies Are Good Bodies Facebo...
37. Disordered Eating Effects More Than Our Bodies with Isabel Garza, RDN, LD
March 21, 2022 04:19 - 28 minutes - 52.9 MBWe're back to continue the conversation about our bodies. Here at Sanctuary Woman, we are intentional about making our spirituality an embodied one, and repairing the holy connection between our mind and our bodies. So we are going to explore what it looks like to pursue being at peace with our bodies. This episode features Isabel Garza, Registered Dietitian and founder of Woman Wise Nutrition. Isabel strives to empower women to be the expert of their own bodies so that they can stop fightin...
36. The Wisdom Of Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride
January 20, 2022 20:10 - 30 minutes - 56.6 MBThis is the first episode of our Bodies series. Here at Sanctuary Woman, we are intentional about making our spirituality an embodied one, and repairing the holy connection between our spiritual and sexual selves. So we are going to explore what it looks like to pursue being at peace with our bodies. And there’s no one better to start us off on this topic than Dr. Hillary McBride. Breath Prayer: Inhale: Speak to me, Oh God Exhale: Through this good body. Inhale: Help me seek wisdom E...
35. Passing the Peace: A Guided Prayer for the New Year
January 11, 2022 17:31 - 11 minutes - 20.3 MBEpisode transcript can be found at www.sanctuarywoman.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarywoman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanctuarywoman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/morganstrehlow Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.
34. Mother Mystery: Mary, Decolonized and Dangerous with Kat Armas (Advent)
December 21, 2021 17:31 - 33 minutes - 61.5 MBWelcome to the fourth and final week of Advent. We’re almost there! HE is almost here! But… we keep waiting. We keep longing for things to be made right. For a little while longer. Today we are waiting with Kat Armas. Kat is a Cuban-American writer and podcaster from Miami, FL who holds a dual MDiv and MAT. Her first book, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us About Wisdom, Persistence and Strength sits at the intersection of women, Scripture, and Cuban identity. She a...
33. Mother Mystery: Incarnation, Fascination, and Feminine Spirituality with Shannon K. Evans (Advent)
December 13, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 56.5 MBWelcome to the third week of Advent. Our guest today is Shannon K. Evans. Shannon is the author of Rewilding Motherhood: Your Path to an Empowered Feminine Spirituality. Writing from the contemplative Catholic tradition, her passion is for an experience of the Divine grows further loving and curious rather than static and complacent. Complete show notes are at www.sanctuarywoman.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarywoman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanctuarywoman Fac...
32. Mother Mystery: Co-creators of Life and Loss with Christy Bauman (Advent)
December 06, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 66.3 MBMy guest for week two of Advent is Dr. Christy Bauman. Christy is an author, professor and psychotherapist who focuses on the female body, sexuality, and theology. A wife to Andrew, a mother of 4, and a fierce dreamer, passionate about advocating for women, Christy is the author of three books: Theology of the Womb, A Brave Lament, and Coming Home. Learn more about Christy and her Theology of the Womb course and book at https://christybauman.com/. CW: Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Comp...
31. Mother Mystery: Mary's Remarkable Belief (Advent)
November 29, 2021 08:30 - 17 minutes - 32 MBIt’s Advent… The Promised One is finally on his way. But he’s not here. Not yet. So we wait… and in this Advent series, we’re going to sit with Mary while we wait... and wait expectantly with her. Lectio Divina: The Visitation from Luke 1:26-45 (MSG) Complete show notes are included our our BRAND NEW WEBSITE: www.sanctuarywoman.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarywoman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanctuarywoman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/morganstrehl...
BONUS: A Prayer for Peace with Kayla Craig of Liturgies for Parents
October 04, 2021 10:30 - 11 minutes - 16.4 MBI have a special bonus episode for you today with my friend Kayla Craig, creator of Liturgies for Parents and author of To Light Their Way: A Collection of Prayers & Liturgies for Parents that features over 100 liturgies and breath prayers. Written with warmth and welcome, To Light Their Way gives voice to your prayer when words won’t come and is out on October 5 everywhere books are sold. Kayla is also host of the Upside Down Podcast, a place for ecumenical conversations on faith and justi...
30. Summer of Sex Ed Q&A!
August 19, 2021 22:01 - 41 minutes - 57.5 MBJoin us for more conversations about sex and sexuality in Christian community on Instagram: @sanctuarywoman Sign up for the newsletter for more sex education content this summer! Questions in this episode: - Should the church even be teaching about sex? - Is it wrong to m*sturbate as a single woman? - How would you respond to your husband who refuses to stop watching porn? - How do I help my husband open up and become more sexually adventurous? - How can I overcome shame and ...
29. Summer of Sex Ed: Recovering from Purity Culture with Dr. Camden Morgante
August 04, 2021 08:30 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBDr. Camden Morgante is a licensed clinical psychologist and adjunct college professor. She writes and speaks about Christianity, psychology, and gender equality and is currently writing a book on the myths of purity culture. In this episode, Dr. Camden and I talk about some of the unintended consequences of purity culture and how we can recover and heal from the psychological impacts it has on us, because sex and sexuality is way more about the physical - so much of it is also spiritual, a...
28. Summer of Sex Ed: Sexual Agency and Waiting to Have Sex (But Not Waiting to Talk About It) with Carlie Palmer-Webb
July 28, 2021 08:30 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBCarlie is a developmental psychologist, a gender and sexuality researcher, and has been educating dating, engaged and newly married couples on Instagram as The Christian Sex Educator. I asked Carlie to join us on the podcast to talk to listeners who are single and dating, who are engaged and those who are newly married - she is specifically so skilled at educating couples who are waiting until marriage to have sex on what they need to do to prepare for their sexual relationship. I know that ...
27. Summer of Sex Ed: Toys, Novelty and Sensuality with Dr. Celeste Holbrook
July 21, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 84.9 MBDr. Celeste Holbrook is a sexologist and speaker who helps her clients evolve into the women they were created to be, in and outside of the bedroom. She speaks on a variety of topics from sex drive and sexual shame, painful intercourse, purity culture and more. Her mission is to provide safe spaces for people to talk about sex. I asked Celeste to join us on the podcast to learn about and normalize different types of sex and pleasure - I specifically asked her to talk with us about how int...
26. Summer of Sex Ed: Talking With Your Kids and Teens About Sex
July 14, 2021 08:30 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBOur children deserve great answers to difficult questions. That's why I am excited to introduce you to two educators who love to help parents become the go to sex education experts for their children so that we can be empowered to have comprehensive, comfortable and casual conversations with our children about bodies, sex, sexuality and consent. Dr. Shannon Deer and Kristin Dickerson are the founders of Oh. My. Word. Conversations, a resource to equip parents to have conversations about s...
25. Summer of Sex Ed: Female Pleasure and the Orgasm Gap with Brittany Broaddus-Smith
July 07, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBBrittany Broaddus-Smith is the founder of The Intimacy Firm, an intimacy coaching and sexuality education organization for coaching, training and educating groups and individuals. Working in the intersections of sexuality and faith, Brittany aims to empower individuals to discover, embrace, and navigate the world of sexuality in a way that doesn’t compromise their personal or professional values. I’ve asked Brittany to join us on the podcast today to talk about female pleasure, how purity cu...
24. Summer of Sex Ed: Pornography with Joy Skarka
June 30, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBDespite us being made to believe that porn is mostly a man’s issue, many women struggle with porn addiction, which is why I have asked my friend Joy Skarka to chat with us about pornography. Joy serves as the Director of Discipleship for Authentic Intimacy, where Joy participates in their mission of providing sexual discipleship to Christian women and couples. Like me, Joy is passionate about creating spaces to free women from shame. TRIGGER WARNING: Please be made aware that there is one ...
23. Summer of Sex Ed: Masturbation and Self-Pleasure with Kat Harris
June 23, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 79 MBThe Summer of Sex Ed series continues with Kat Harris. Kat is the host of The Refined Collective Podcast, Co-Founder of the online publication The Refined Woman, and author of the newly released book titled Sexless in the City. She coaches and equips women all over the world in dating, relationships, singleness, sexuality, faith and how to build a renewed and healthy biblical sexual ethic rooted in freedom, truth and grace as opposed to the oh-so-common shame and fear narratives so many expe...
22. Summer of Sex Ed: Women's Health 101 with OBGYN PA Tiffany Rose
June 16, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 88.5 MBTiffany Rose is a physician assistant who specializes in gynecology in Waco, Texas, where she also teaches human sexuality classes to college students at Baylor University. I asked Tiffany to talk with us specifically about how women can become the best advocates for our own healthcare with our gynecologists. Personally, I had several bad experiences with OBGYNs in my early 20s before getting the help I needed, but also didn't know enough about my body or what to expect to know how to advoca...
21. Summer of Sex Ed: Asexuality with Jenna DeWitt
June 09, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 80.4 MBWelcome to the Sanctuary, I’m Morgan Strehlow, host of the Sanctuary Woman podcast, and you’re listening to the Summer of Sex Ed series, featuring sex educators, sexuality professionals and a few friends of the podcast to come talk with us about womens sexuality for those of us who never received a proper sex education while growing up in purity culture. Today’s educator is my friend and a friend of the podcast, Jenna DeWitt. Jenna joins us to talk with me about asexuality, aromanticism, a...
Summer of Sex Ed: Coming on 6/9
May 31, 2021 01:14 - 2 minutes - 4.45 MBOn Wednesday, June 9 we will kick off a Summer of Sex Ed, featuring sex educators, sexuality professionals and a few friends of the podcast to come talk with us about specific topics relating to women's sexuality for those of us who never received a proper sex education while growing up in purity culture. You can send your sex and sexuality questions to [email protected]. Join us for more sexuality conversations in Christian community on Instagram: @sanctuarywoman Sign up fo...
20. Wait, Does This Mean I'm In Ministry?
May 17, 2021 21:12 - 26 minutes - 48.2 MBI'm learning some things about ministry these days. Not because I want to be a minister. I want to be a writer. But I recognize that God can use my writing and my story to minister to others - and, to my surprise, God has. Since we’re 20 episodes into Sanctuary Woman, I thought I’d spend a moment reflecting on the concept of ministry. What is it? Is that what I’m doing? And if so, what business do I have doing it? Lectio Divina: Acts 1:6-11 (The Ascension of Jesus) Book: The Wounded Heale...
19. Meditating on our Mothering God
May 11, 2021 17:01 - 21 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode, Morgan makes space to consider how God mothers us, and how God's people spiritually mother one another.
18. Freeing Women from "Biblical Womanhood" with Beth Allison Barr
May 03, 2021 08:30 - 37 minutes - 69.2 MBOn this episode of Sanctuary Woman, we’re talking about Biblical womanhood, and how this caricature many of us have been handed as the script from which we should live our lives may not actually be a Biblical one, but rather a cultural one. I’m so excited about the guest we have on the show today: my colleague at Baylor University, Dr. Beth Allison Barr, who recently released a game changer of a book called The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth...
17. Sacred Cliturgy: Less Shame, More Delight
April 26, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes - 41.5 MBVery good. Naked. Not ashamed. We do not know much about Eve, but we do know this much of the first woman created by God and in the image of God. I have never been able to identify with this very good woman, Eve in Eden, naked and not ashamed. Until recently, I never believed that I was supposed to. I never believed that it was possible. --- Sacred Cliturgy, a monthly bonus episode of Sanctuary Woman where we discover what would happen if we talked honestly about sex with one another. ...
16. Normalizing Repentance, Practicing Resurrection: A Guided Examen for Racial Justice
April 19, 2021 16:34 - 29 minutes - 54.6 MBIn light of the events of this past week - the murder of two unarmed black and brown boys by law enforcement officers, twenty year old Daunte Wright, and thirteen year old Adam Toledo - and in light of the events of the past year and the forthcoming verdict of the office who murdered George Floyd, I want to lead us into a guided prayer and examen for racial justice, for concilation, and for peace, and for the role we are to play in the making of peace. Connect with Morgan to continue the c...
15. Proclaiming the Resurrection (My Resurrection Story)
April 05, 2021 19:25 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBWelcome to Eastertide, the liturgical season where we celebrate the resurrected Christ and the new life we have in a risen Jesus. In yesterday’s Easter service, where I attended church in person for the first time in a year, our pastor described the Resurrection story as both a cosmic story, as well as a deeply personal one. Resurrection. Each of us have a resurrection story of sorts, and perhaps some of us have many resurrection stories that collectively make up a much larger narrativ...
14. Sacred Cliturgy: Resurrection of Great Sex with Sheila Gregoire
March 29, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 68.2 MBIt’s time for Sacred Cliturgy, a monthly bonus episode of Sanctuary Woman where we discover what would happen if we talked honestly about sex with one another. You see sexuality is inherently VERY GOOD. But, let’s face it... it’s complicated. It’s especially complicated when we don’t talk about it. So I asked the question: What if Christian women started talking about sex... like for real? What if we talked about and understood our own bodies, our own sexuality in a more healthy and hol...
13: Resurrection of Women’s Voices with Tiffany Bluhm
March 22, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 73.8 MBThe Resurrection Women series kicks off with Tiffany Bluhm, where she and Morgan talk about when silence is not spiritual and the importance of us as believers and as a church to be able to welcome the honest and uncomfortable stories of women and our shared experiences with another - and actually be believed. Buy Tiffany's new book Prey Tell anywhere books are sold, and connect with Tiffany at https://www.tiffanybluhm.com/. Connect with Morgan: @sanctuarywoman on Instagram Sanctua...
13: Resurrection of Women’s Voices with Tiffany Bluhm
March 22, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 73.8 MBThe Resurrection Women series kicks off with Tiffany Bluhm, where she and Morgan talk about when silence is not spiritual and the importance of us as believers and as a church to be able to welcome the honest and uncomfortable stories of women and our shared experiences with another - and actually be believed. Buy Tiffany's new book Prey Tell anywhere books are sold, and connect with Tiffany at https://www.tiffanybluhm.com/. Connect with Morgan: @sanctuarywoman on Instagram Sanctua...
A Breather
March 15, 2021 09:00 - 3 minutes - 6.45 MBDownload the free Examen guidebook. Join the Sanctuary Woman Community on Facebook. Connect with Morgan: @sanctuarywoman on Instagram Sanctuary Woman on Facebook @mostrehlow on Instagram @morganstrehlow on Twitter morganstrehlow.com
12. Rest & Renewal (Examen)
March 08, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 39.7 MBIn this episode, Morgan examines the concepts of rest and renewal in her own life as a contemplative activist, and in our collective lives as we establish new rhythms heading into post-pandemic life. Poem: A Standing Ground by Wendell Berry Lectio Divina from Psalm 23. Prayer: O Redeemer, May your light break forth like the dawn May your renewal come quickly Or may it come the slow way That’s for you to decide May your presence be with us while we wait May you give rest to our res...
11. Forgiveness & Repentance (Examen)
March 01, 2021 18:08 - 19 minutes - 35.2 MB“The earth is a forgiveness school,” Anne Lamott says. When I began studying forgiveness, it didn’t take long at all for God to show me that I first needed to finally forgive the church. This realization hit me like a thousand bricks when it occurred to me that I had been harboring unforgiveness toward the big C church and the little c church - the church of my childhood - for years and years and years and my own unforgiveness had turned me into someone I no longer recognized. I had becom...
10. Sacred Cliturgy: Every Body Holy with Elizabeth Gregory Brown
February 26, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 40 MBIt’s time for Sacred Cliturgy, a monthly bonus episode of Sanctuary Woman where we discover what would happen if we talked honestly about sex with one another. You see sexuality is inherently VERY GOOD. But, let’s face it - it’s complicated. It’s especially complicated when we don’t talk about it. So I asked the question: What if Christian women started talking about sex - like for real? What if we talked about and understood our own bodies, our own sexuality in a more healthy and holis...
9. Pausing & Praying (for Texas)
February 22, 2021 09:00 - 12 minutes - 23.2 MBI took the pressure off of myself to keep on keeping on, to stick with business as usual this week. (It was no usual week here in Texas, after all.) Which means the podcast episodes I had on deck for tomorrow will not be released as planned. Instead, I took a pause. Texans: I hope that you will honor your body this week by prayerfully taking a moment to pause, to be still, before you press on. Take a moment to notice. To grieve. To lament. To be grateful. And to pray. The ice ...
8. Fruit & Flesh (Examen)
February 15, 2021 08:05 - 18 minutes - 34.1 MBIn this episode, Morgan wrestles with and unpacks Galations 5 where we find the fruits of the spirit. There is a lot of sin in this world, and you and I did inherit that sinful nature. That is true. There is a lot of good left in this world too, and I believe that you and I can also embody that good - that we DO embody that good if we embody the Spirit. What does it look like to embody this Spirit? Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-Control. To ...
7. Connection & Intimacy (Examen)
February 15, 2021 08:00 - 17 minutes - 31.2 MBIntimacy in any form takes intentionality. Self-intimacy and relational intimacy require commitment and emotional responsibility, as does intimacy with God. And just as our bodies can be a part of creating intimacy with our babies or with our partners, our bodies are the perfect place to experience a profound intimacy, too, with our very creator. Lectio Divina from Isaiah 49. To download the accompanying Examen guidebook PDF to journal through the Examen, click here. Connect with Mor...
6. This is My Body: A Body Scan Meditation (Examen)
February 08, 2021 09:05 - 15 minutes - 28.3 MBOn this episode of Sanctuary Woman, I want to invite you to reconnect your mind, with your body, through awareness of your body, listening to what your body is communicating to you. What God is communicating to you, through your body. This episode will lead you through a prayer body scan meditation, and close with a reading of Psalm 139. To download the accompanying Examen guidebook PDF to journal through the Examen, click here. Connect with Morgan: @sanctuarywoman on Instagram Sanct...
5. Sensuality & Pleasure (Examen)
February 08, 2021 09:00 - 15 minutes - 27.5 MBI’m not sure when it occurred to me that pleasure could be holy. But I know now it can. And perhaps pleasure can be just another doorway to experiencing God? Lectio Divina: Psalm 149:1-5 Prayer: O Generous God, Creator of my five senses Giver of desires Thank you for the gift Of this good body This good body that you’ve given me for pleasure This good body that you’ve given me for worship Help me, Caring Savior To be kind to this very good body To delight in this very good bod...
4. Epiphany & Curiosity (Examen)
February 01, 2021 04:57 - 19 minutes - 36.2 MBI’m going to share with you about my own epiphanies and curiosities that led to this podcast, Sanctuary Woman. And as you listen to my story, ask God for holy perspective as you reflect back on how the holy spirit has is guiding you toward your next right thing. Think about what you’ve been learning about God, about yourself, about the world. Think about what you still want to learn about God, about yourself, about the world. Sanctuary Woman was born out of a deep pain, deep hope, deep des...
3. Gifts & Gratitude (Examen)
February 01, 2021 04:55 - 16 minutes - 29.3 MB“The gifts I see in you are…” I want to offer this prompt to you to use in a few different ways. The first one is this: Look in the mirror. At yourself. Make eye contact with you. Look at her with affection, with adoration, with awe. Tell her what gifts you see in you. Voice as many as you can think of in that moment. When you’re finished speaking gifts over yourself, write them down somewhere. Then consider making this a regular practice in your life. Second, speak gifts into a clo...