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8 Creative Approaches to Grief

As Dias de los Muertos approaches, or All Soul’s Day, I'm delighted to have blogger Kara Jones from Mother Henna with us to talk to us about creative ways to address and honor our grief. Halloween and Samhain are just the beginning of a long series of ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  25 Oct 2009

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Artful Artists are Good for the Soul

For years now I’ve worked a non-traditional minister and my speciality is spirituality and the arts. But my best lesson came not from my seminary training, nor from the numerous hours I’ve spent studying spiritual direction. The best lesson I ever ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  18 Oct 2009

Christian Conference features an All-Female Speaking Roster

As I write this is the final day of Christianity 21 – a new kind of conference for A New Kind of Christian. C21 featured an entirely female speaking roster, but was not a women’s conference. (I know, shocking!) In fact, it has been reported that the ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  11 Oct 2009

A Novel Approach to Menstruation and Spirituality

When I first read Anita Diamant’s novel The Red Tent three years ago, I had never thought about what menstruation was like for women thousands of years ago. If I had thought about it, I probably would have shuddered at the idea. The Red Tent made me ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  5 Oct 2009

A Goy Girl's Guide to Yom Kippur

A new start!…Quick, get rid of all last year’s crap!) Being that both Christianity and Judaism are heavy on the sin and guilt, I felt a natural draw towards a major religious holiday that wiped the slate clean and let everyone start over. It seemed to ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  27 Sep 2009

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Celebrating the Autumn Equinox 'Round the Table

I’ve lived most of my adult life in climates that get a little hard to bear, Seattle WA, Vancouver BC, and Copenhagen, DK: all three of these gorgeous cities have one common downfall –-- a shortage of daylight. This means that I’ve gotten a little ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  20 Sep 2009

A Goy Girl's Guide to Rosh Hashanah

I mess with the traditions too much, I make light of some of the more institutionalized rules. But as much as I am not a very good Christian, I am an even worse Jew—with only a tenuous blood line to make me ethnically legitimate, and a limited ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  13 Sep 2009

Rites of Passage for Back to School

It's back to school season with the last of the schools in the U.S. starting up after this Labor Day weekend comes to a close. Children are trying on outfits, putting their names on backpacks and picking out new lunchboxes. But beyond the ritual of ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  6 Sep 2009

Finding Balance

Tonight I was having dinner with a friend of mine who is a business professor at a prestigious graduate school. While the guys grilled the steaks, she and I wandered around my studio with our glasses of wine. We stopped in front a my wall of ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  30 Aug 2009

More Life Coach Types You Can Learn From (For Free)

I don’t know about you, but that little cache of advice from last week’s Life Coaches – score! It was like finding a treasure chest full of good-for-your-soul booty. So without further ado, let’s dive right into this week’s helpful collection, shall we? ...

From RACHELLE MEE-CHAPMAN, BlogHer,  20 Aug 2009

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