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endurance is costly, but necessary

by enfleshed | Dec 22, 2025 | Tough Mind & Tender Heart

Gentlebeings, I started this newsletter, as many activists/theologians/creatives have before me, out of a deep ache. A deep knowing that everything wasn't quite right. I am old enough to remember (sigh) the fervor of the 2020 anti-racism resurgence. I witnessed the black squares of solidarity on Instagram (which nobody asked for), anti-racist book sales skyrocket, guilt-ridden donations to Black and BIPOC individuals/organizations, and performative activism in abundance. It troubled me because I knew that the backlash and apathy would eventually come. We are in those days now. Non-profits...

A Foolish and Holy Plan for Survival

by enfleshed | Dec 18, 2025 | Moments for Common Nourishment

By Anna Blaedel Yehuda Halevi, 12th century rabbi and poet, wrote: “A thing for fools, this,Love,But a holy thingTo love what death can touch.” It is, indeed, a foolish thing, and a holy thing, to love enfleshed life. A risky thing. A courageous thing. Death can touch it all. This is my final “moment for common nourishment” column for enfleshed. Eight years of monthly offerings; 96 columns. Perhaps the most consistent thread of wisdom woven through and returned to is this: Everything sacred begins and ends in love. Love makes survival possible. Love makes life livable. When enfleshed...

A Final Word on Seeking Solidarities

by enfleshed | Dec 15, 2025 | Seeking Solidarity

How does one wrap up a column that never really found its rhythm? When beginning this year, I imagined my relationship to this container so much differently than unfolded - so many unfinished drafts, so few actual pieces published. It’s not been for lack of wrestling or writing! There is so much about solidarity that is simple. At its best, it is a natural extension of our love for each other. A natural outgrowth of recognizing that what happens to one (being or person or community) is inextricably linked to all of us. A most foundational grounding for what it means to be in relationship. In...

An Interview with El/yse Ambrose (they/them)

by enfleshed | Nov 13, 2025 | Guest Interviews

El/yse Ambrose (they/them)share your spiritual biography in 10 words, or less: Ever-opening to remain a full-hearted, deeply feeling being where are you turning for soul nourishment / joy / aliveness? I am turning to movement. In movement, I remember the tenderness and felt glow of being in my black, queer, trans bodyself. I sense into the vitality and the limits of flesh. I embrace that all is in motion and it is a gift to participate heartily in this flow. I bring movement into the everyday-ness of my life (in a car on a long ride, in a chair while working) and more recently, into my art....

Loving (in) the Time We Still Have

by enfleshed | Oct 30, 2025 | Moments for Common Nourishment

By Anna Blaedel I recently spent the day in the cemetery I have returned to throughout my entire life, with five elders I love dearly. All of us kin, claimed by various bonds of love. Our gathering was thick with history and shared knowing. Our sense of connection – with each other, with the land – thrumming sacred, and deep. Our gathering was also thick with the tender grief of aging, of mortality, of illness imparting the inevitability of loss. I arrived to find an old oak tree I have known for all of my almost 44 years down, fallen, dead. Its limbs were scattered among the graves, and...

An Interview with Saunia Powell (she/her)

by enfleshed | Oct 9, 2025 | Guest Interviews

Saunia Powell (she/her)share your spiritual biography in 10 words, or less: Mama prayed I'd speak in tongues; I am the flame. where are you turning for soul nourishment / joy / aliveness? brunch with beloveds, birds in flight (outside and inside), every tree, and my sheltie puppy. what is a text you hold sacred? Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer what is a spiritual practice currently sustaining you? singing while driving. how would you describe the work you feel called to do in this world (even if it is not the work you get paid for)? I'm called to love, feel the whole of it thoroughly,...

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