Rachelle Mee-Chapman

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  1. Loving, or Right? Loving AND Right?

    4/17/11 11:00am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    Love Wins

    There’s a new book floating around Evangelical circles, Rob Bell’s Love Wins. The gist of this book is that maybe it’s not all about theological correctness and saying "the prayer" before you die so you can escape hell and get into heaven. Maybe God is love. Maybe love wins. As you can imagine, people who are concerned about hell are concerned about this message. They don’t want people to burn for eternity. They want to know what is right and wrong, and they want to you to know it too. Because damn it, the consequences are dire. It's nice, really, given that world view. They just want to keep you safe.  Read more >

  2. 8 Creative Approaches to Grief

    10/25/09 1:36pm by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    As Dias de los Muertos approaches, or All Soul’s Day, I'm delighted to have blogger Kara Jones from Mother Henna with us to talk to us about creative ways to address and honor our grief.  Read more >

  3. Artful Artists are Good for the Soul

    10/18/09 11:57am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    For years now I’ve worked a non-traditional minister and my speciality is spirituality and the arts. But my best lesson came not from my seminary training, nor from the numerous hours I’ve spent studying spiritual direction. The best lesson I ever learned about art and spirituality came from one of my ministerial partners, Israel Button, who told me: “People intuit truth through art. You have to use art to preach.”  Read more >

  4. Christian Conference features an All-Female Speaking Roster

    10/11/09 6:19am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    As I write this is the final day of Christianity 21 – a new kind of conference for A New Kind of Christian. C21 featured an entirely female speaking roster, but was not a women’s conference. (I know, shocking!) In fact, it has been reported that the men who are normally the big name speakers at these gigs (Doug Pagitt, Shane Clairborne, etc.) were all happily staffing the welcome tables and passing out the nametags.  Read more >

  5. A Novel Approach to Menstruation and Spirituality

    10/5/09 3:38am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    Your period. Cramps, tampons, mood swings and…a spiritual experience?  Read more >

  6. A Goy Girl's Guide to Yom Kippur

    9/27/09 3:01am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    Sunday night at sundown will mark the beginning of the Jewish fast of Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement. As a child growing up as a Christian I was always fascinated by this holiday celebrated by my religious cousins. It seemed to me to be the solemn yang to the celebratory ying of Rosh Hashanah, the Judaic New Year. (Hurrah!  Read more >

  7. Celebrating the Autumn Equinox 'Round the Table

    9/20/09 4:19am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    In the northern hemisphere, this Wednesday marks the Autumn Equinox, the first day of fall. How will you celebrate?  Read more >

  8. A Goy Girl's Guide to Rosh Hashanah

    9/13/09 1:35am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    Rocks for Rosh Hashanah: A RememberanceIt is time for us to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and a glorious new season. Friends have gathered here to perform the tashlikh, an ancient ceremony in which we cast stones into a body of water to symbolize that our sins and misdeeds are removed from us, and that we can begin our new year with a clean slate. Although I have been ordained I am not, in the conventional sense, a very good Christian.  Read more >

  9. Rites of Passage for Back to School

    9/6/09 7:47am by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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  10. Finding Balance

    8/30/09 12:34pm by Rachelle Mee-Chapman
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    Tonight I was having dinner with a friend of mine who is a business professor at a prestigious graduate school. While the guys grilled the steaks, she and I wandered around my studio with our glasses of wine. We stopped in front a my wall of dreamboards – a series of collages embodying my intentions month by month. When we got to one that said “Do Less,” she sighed a little and said,  “Tell me this Rachelle, do you think someone can ever get all their ducks in a row?” My reply?  Read more >

Rachelle Mee-Chapman

Full Name
Rachelle Mee-Chapman
Member Since
October 2006
About Me: 

I'm a writer/artist/alt.minister/urbanmama from Seattle, Washington now living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

I write about spirituality, creativity, parenting and life abroad at Magpie Girl, http://www.magpie-girl.com. I also have a weekly feature at BlogHer on Sundays.

If you like my work, I'd be honored if you'd follow me at Twitter, where I let folks know what I've published on line and on paper. And you can friend me at Facebook as Rachelle Mee-Chapman.

Thanks for reading!

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