Love * Sex * Loss: Can Faith Help?

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Love * Sex * Loss: Can Faith Help?

Join young adults from across the Diocese for a rich, guided conversation about the complicated ways relationships and faith intersect.

By The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia

Date and time

Starts on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 · 7pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Love, Sex, Loss, and Faith, oh my! These big themes of life could lend themselves to year-long programs on their own, so we are starting small to discover what questions you are longing to discuss. Questions like:

· Where is God when you have been hurt in relationships?

· How does the Episcopal Church approach what it means to be "incarnational" – to be living out our faith in our gloriously diverse bodies?

· What do you know now about your faith and life that you wish you would have known when you were younger?

If you have these questions or ones like them, this is your invitation into intentional conversation facilitated by The Rev. Danáe Ashley, Episcopal priest and licensed marriage and family therapist. There will be time for individual and group reflection and listening to diverse voices across the Diocese about how we use our faith as a resource for healing and resilience

We hope this brief series will serve as a jumping off point that will give framework for further conversation and reflection in your life, your faith communities, and beyond. We encourage you to add your voice to the conversation!

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This series is for people in their 20s & 30s from across the Diocese

We'll meet on two consecutive Tuesday evenings -- November 1 & 8 -- from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Register here for free to receive the Zoom link.

We endeavor to create a safe, virtual space where all perspectives, gender identities, and faith expressions are welcomed and supported.

For questions/clarification write Valerie Reinke, Canon Missioner for Faith Formation: 35 & Under: faithformation@ecww.org

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The Rev. Danae M. Ashley is an Episcopal priest and marriage and family therapist who has ministered with parishes in North Carolina, New York, Minnesota, and serves as the Associate Rector at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Seattle and a therapist at Soul Spa Seattle. Danae uses art, music, drama, poetry, and movement in counseling, spiritual direction, and creation of ritual. She also joined the Episcopal Church’s CREDO Faculty in 2022, living into another aspect of her call of supporting clergy across the Church.

Danae has written for Working Preacher, Luther Seminary’s Faith+Lead, Episcopal Café, and Sermons that Work, as well as being a contributor to podcasts, books, and a play about fertility struggle. Her favorite past times include reading, traveling, tending Alvie’s Memorial Garden, delighting in their adopted pit bull Sophie Grace's snuggles, dancing with wild abandon to Celtic music, and serious karaoke.

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The Diocese of Olympia is made up of more than 26,000 Episcopalians in more than 100 worshiping communities through Western Washington. Our geographic area stretches south from Canada to Oregon and west from the foothills of the Cascade Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

Through worship we:

  • Affirm our faith
  • Pray together
  • Reconcile together
  • Share peace and thanksgiving together
  • Gain strength and renewal through Eucharist
  • Prepare ourselves to minister to the world.
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