Like flowers in the cracks of a sidewalk, women’s spirituality has had to work its way around and through thousands of years of religious beliefs and practices established and maintained by and for men. “I have stopped trying to make my life look spiritually acceptable to men. Men have very specific criteria for what spirituality is, based on the reality that men have been the only ones writing religious rites and religious scripture,” explains Brittney Hartley. Her words are deeply resonant for many Latter-day Saint women who struggle to grow our own spirituality in a church that is patriarchy all the way down. In Episode 178, Brittney joins Cynthia and Susan for a conversation about women defining and redefining for ourselves what spirituality can be.
Notes & Quotes:
Find more info and connect with Brittney here
Find Brittney’s original Instagram post here
No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required, by Brittney Hartley
Wild Mercy, by Mirabai Starr
When God Was a Woman, by Merlin Stone
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World, by Rosalind Miles
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, by Riane Eisler
