Healing Received When We Welcome In The Divine Feminine

Please meet my colleague Kathleen Joan. Kathleen is a spiritual director who specializes in accompanying those who would like to integrate the Divine Feminine into their understanding of God, or who are walking a path of healing from patriarchal religion. She is committed to holding contemplative space for people of all genders to claim their sacred dignity in the Divine image and listen to how Spirit is moving in hearts and lives.“During the season of Spring, it seems as if the whole Earth is rising from sleep! As the Earth awakens, Christians remember and celebrate the eternal story of death and resurrection. The story of Jesus invites us into the Paschal Mystery – the eternal promise that God will use the “deaths” we experience to move us into ever-larger, resurrected life.Like the frozen earth in winter, the tomb becomes a womb out of which new life emerges.One “resurrection” that is happening in today’s world is the return of the Divine Feminine. Christians of all genders are longing for ways to relate to God as a loving Mother as well as Father. In recent decades, feminist and womanist theologies have helped us understand that exclusively masculine images of God are not required in Christianity. Furthermore, using male-only images of God may be deeply damaging to the human psyche, and it can provide religious justification for sinful social systems like patriarchy and sexism.