Spiritual language is often male-focused, overlooking the uniquely female experience. Shannon K. Evans believes our daughters deserve better.
This book of prayers for mothers to pray for their daughters encompasses all of life from birth to death while imagining God in ways that resonate with women's diverse experiences. It gives words to a woman's desire for the girls in her life to flourish in the modern world and breathes hope for a church that will give them equal power.
Spiritual language is often male-focused, overlooking the uniquely female experience. Author Shannon K. Evans believes our daughters deserve better.
Evans wrote Feminist Prayers for My Daughter as a gift to mothers and women everywhere. It offers short prayers that affirm the unique challenges and embrace the natural abilities embodied by our daughters, young and old alike. Categories of prayers include embodiment, relationships, wholeness, justice, equality, and milestones. This book encompasses all of life from birth to death while imagining God in ways that resonate with the feminine experience.
For mothers, grandmothers, mentors, and beyond, this prayer book provides a poignant and powerful path to both encounter God personally and seek the well-being of the daughters in our lives. It gives words to a mother's desires for her daughter in the modern world and breathes hope for a church that will give her equal power.
Table of Contents:
- Relationships
- for supportive female friendships
- for daughterhood
- for handling peer pressure
- for her broken heart
- for commitment
- for consensual sex
- for becoming a mother
- for singleness
- for rewilding motherhood
- for a shame-free sexual ethic
- Embodiment
- for body acceptance
- for seeing color
- for when gender boxes are too small
- for differing abilities
- for aging
- for celebrating breasts
- for getting her hands dirty
- for dynamic movement
- for pregnancy
- for miscarriage and infant loss
- Spirituality
- for an inner compass
- for a lost sheep
- for sacred listening
- for a faith community
- for embodied knowing
- for seeing women lead in church
- for curiosity
- for the heart of a mystic
- for an unquenched flame
- for freedom
- Womanhood
- for making room for all
- for a world without photoshop
- for renewed language about womanhood
- for the women who came before
- for the women who will come after
- for intersectional justice
- for a feminine imaging of God
- for taking up space
- for vocational choice
- for honoring mother earth
- Wholeness
- for trying and failing
- for getting her butt into counseling
- for wisdom
- for welcoming grief
- for befriending anger
- for the creative life
- for telling the truth
- for healthy boundaries
- for times of depression
- for making decisions
- Justice
- for raising her voice
- for leveraging her privilege
- for making a home of welcome
- for nonviolence
- for the common good
- for small activism
- for doing the inner work
- for loving her enemy
- for protecting the vulnerable
- for breaking bread with others
- Equality
- for equal pay
- for promotions and leadership positions
- for felt safety
- for being mansplained
- for a just maternity leave
- for representation
- for support in the face of sexual harassment
- for marriage partnership
- for women's ordination
- for the global sisterhood
- Milestones
- for learning to walk
- for starting kindergarten
- for menarche (first menstruation)
- for leaving home
- for her wedding day
- for childbirth
- for her fortieth birthday
- for menopause
- for times of tragedy
- for her death
Product Preview
| Format: | Paperback book |
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| Product code: | IC435492 |
| Dimensions: | 5.2" x 7.4" |
| Length: | 186 pages |
| Publisher: |
Brazos Press
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| ISBN: | 9781587435492 |
| 1-2 copies | $15.30 each |
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| 3-9 copies | $14.45 each |
| 10-49 copies | $13.60 each |
| 50-99 copies | $13.26 each |
| 100+ copies | $12.75 each |
Praise
The prayers in this book are a treasure. Evans's approach to divinity as lived in daily life will inspire and encourage women, both young and old, to pray and live as their freest, truest, and wisest selves.
Joyce Rupp, author of Prayers to Sophia and The Star in My Heart
I pray my daughter has the freedom to live however God has made her, and Shannon Evans gifts us with the theologically rich and beautifully crafted words for that prayer.
Beth Allison Barr, professor, Baylor University; bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood
A beautiful book of feminist prayers that are full of care, authenticity, and nuance--clear and gentle guidance for parents and children alike.
Kaitlin B. Curtice, bestselling author of Native and Living Resistance
Evans shows us how and what to pray for our daughters, because when our daughters are treasured, free to live their lives fully, it is better for us all.
Hillary L. McBride, psychologist, author, speaker, and podcaster
The words in Feminist Prayers for My Daughter are rooted in the sacred and divine. Exquisitely woven, they took me through my own journey as daughter, mother, woman, and healer. This book is revolutionary for these times.
Asha Frost, Indigenous healer; bestselling author of You Are the Medicine
The words in Feminist Prayers for My Daughter are rooted in the sacred and divine. Exquisitely woven, they took me through my own journey as daughter, mother, woman, and healer. This book is revolutionary for these times.
Asha Frost, Indigenous healer; bestselling author of You Are the Medicine
