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Feminist Prayers for My Daughter

Powerful Petitions for Every Stage of Her Life

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Pub Date 21 Mar 2023 | Archive Date 7 Apr 2023


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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.

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...


Advance Praise

“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. Drawing from the deep wisdom of Christian tradition, she reminds us that—even if we cannot protect our daughters from the hard choices ahead or the grief that is sure to come—we can do what mothers have always done and pray them through it.”—Beth Allison Barr, James Vardaman Professor of History, Baylor University; bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood

“Shannon Evans has written a beautiful book of feminist prayers that are full of care, authenticity, and nuance—clear and gentle guidance for parents and children alike. The words and images in these pages will be a balm for many, reminding us that Sacred Mystery is always beckoning us home.”—Kaitlin B. Curtice, bestselling author of Native and Living Resistance

“So much of mothering a daughter is wordless: an embodied longing for a world in which she is fully connected to herself and others, a heartache knowing she will face pain, an uncontainable awe at the delight of who she is becoming, a bow of the head to Mother God to show us both the way. Evans offers us words where there often aren’t any. She 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. May we all read these words to remind us of our inherent worth and beauty, and may they nourish the flames of the feminine rising. This book is revolutionary for these times. I cannot recommend it enough.”—Asha Frost, Indigenous healer; bestselling author of You Are the Medicine

Feminist Prayers for My Daughter is like coming into a harbor of hope. I have longed for a creative, robust voice like that of Shannon Evans. 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. Drawing from the deep...


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ISBN 9781587435492
PRICE US$16.99 (USD)
PAGES 192

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