Main content

Body & soul : stories for skeptics and seekers

Available Formats:

Details:

  • Contributor: Scott, Susan
    Summary:

    Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers is a spiritual journey through experiences that can be liberating but also awkward and sometimes even dangerous, because women are so often excluded from conversations about spirituality. Liberation comes with breaking that age-old code of silence to talk about the messiness of faith, practice, religion and ceremony, to confess our sublimely unconventional modes of spiritual yearning. The writers in this volume, including Sharon Bala, Carleigh Baker, Eufemia Fantetti, Sue Goyette, K.D. Miller, Zarqa Nawaz, Alison Pick, Sigal Samuel, Ayelet Tsabari, Betsy Warland and others, many from marginalized or misunderstood communities, are speaking out so that others will speak up. Enough of fear. Enough of hiding out, tongue-tied. It's time for joy, humanity and frankness. It's time to step up and lead--not by running after answers, but by asking caring, daring questions. It's time for body and soul.

    Contents:
    • Wake up: a foreword / Alison Pick
    • Introduction
    • Unfinished journey / Jagtar Kaur Atwal
    • In a canoe, chasing my Métis grandmother / Carleigh Baker
    • The madonna in the linen closet / Sharon Bala
    • Mother and child / Dora Dueck
    • I am karenahtne / Carolina Echeverria
    • Repent, sinner / Eufemia
    • Fantetti
    • My uterus is a tree / Meharoona Ghani
    • Poetent / Sue Goyette
    • My flannery / Liz Harmer
    • Embracing impermanence / Sheniz Janmohamed
    • Second chakra / Pam Johnson
    • Are you there God? It's me talking to Mary Karr / Tamara Jong
    • Star women / Jónína Kirton
    • The places in between / Amanda Leduc
    • Yoga rage / Kirstein MacLeod
    • The seraphim / Emily McKibbon.
    Original Publisher: Toronto, ON, ©2019, Center for Equitable Library Access
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781987915938, 1987915933