The Portal of the Divine Feminine with Sophie Strand

On the latest episode, I embark upon a wild conversational romp with writer Sophie Strand. Sophie’s writing focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But, as she says, it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Sophie’s first book of essays, "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine" is newly released from Inner Traditions. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in 2023. On today’s episode, we discuss: Sophie’s “spiritual compost heap” background, and how it’s contributed to her worldview today Her understanding of the Sacred Feminine, including the limitations she sees with this language and why she sees it not as a destination, but as a portal away from more predominant male, monotheist traditions and towards what she writes about as the “Animate Everything” The problem with seeking one linear narrative to explain how we’ve arrived where we are What it means to re-examine and re-imagine the myths we’ve been handed about the Sacred Masculine Getting to know Jesus not as a white, docile savior but as the radical, storytelling itinerant teacher that he was – and Mary Magdalene as his teaching counterpart And so much more ! See audio episode home at www.hometoher.com/podcast for full show notes.