Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture
Ebook
In this forty-day devotional, Cuban American writer Kat Armas shows us that reading the Bible with fresh eyes allows us to experience God in new and liberating ways.
Many Christians today are seeking to disentangle biblical teaching from power structures that marginalize women and people of color. There's a hunger for a new kind of devotional that offers refreshing and relevant ways to connect with God and the Bible--ways that challenge readers to seek out a more liberated and embodied faith.
Drawing from personal narrative and Scripture, Armas highlights biblical passages that point toward decolonized themes centered on creation, wisdom, spirit, the body, and the feminine. Sacred Belonging helps us see how Scripture directs us to live a liberated faith, where we belong to God, the earth, and one another.
From the Back Cover
"An invitation into a deep, expansive, and healing way of encountering Scripture"
In this 40-day devotional, Cuban American writer Kat Armas shows us that reading the Bible with fresh eyes allows us to experience God in new and liberating ways.
Highlighting biblical passages that point toward decolonized themes centered on creation, wisdom, spirit, the body, and the feminine, Armas helps us see how Scripture directs us to live a liberated faith--a faith where we belong to God, the earth, and one another.
"Armas is a theological leader in fierce truth-telling and compelling story-sharing, and we should join her on this journey to reimagine what belonging could be."
--Kaitlin Curtice, award-winning author of Native and Living Resistance
"What a delicious book. We are invited to taste and see biblical narratives with a new palate that decenters and decolonizes and disrupts limited ways of knowing."
--Rev. Dr. Jacqui J. Lewis, senior minister, Middle Church; author of Fierce Love
"Armas is the theologian we need, and Sacred Belonging is the devotional we've been waiting for. I am stunned silent by this beautiful, relevant work."
--Emily P. Freeman, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Next Right Thing
"Armas has given us a devotional worth reading. She offers new perspectives rather than settling for conventional ones."
--Peter Enns, author of Curveball; host of The Bible for Normal People podcast
"A devotional for all of us who feel cringey about devotionals. I felt so held and respected by these words."
--K.J. Ramsey, trauma therapist; author of The Book of Common Courage and The Lord Is My Courage
"An invitation into a deep, expansive, and healing way of encountering Scripture."
--Arielle Estoria, poet, author, and actor
Contents
Introduction
Creation
1. Sacred Belonging
2. The Creatures Teach Us
3. The Mountains Groan
4. A Wild World beyond Us
5. Our Soulful Companions
6. Creation Rejoices 000
7. A Kin-dom of Reciprocity
8. Earth, Wind, Fire, Water
Spirit
9. Ghost Stories
10. What Do You Want
11. Native Conversations
12. Lingering in the Tension
13. Arguing with God 000
14. The Gift of Dreams
15. The Spirit Speaks
16. A Deeper Dimension
The Body
17. A Disabled God
18. Getting Curious
19. Breath Prayer
20. God Moves In
21. Reawakening Your Wildness
22. Eyes of Abundance
23. A Question of Embodiment
24. God amid the Crowds
Wisdom
25. The Genius Loci
26. Eternal Life
27. Our Celestial Siblings
28. The Cycle of Time
29. Rooted in Place
30. A New Moon
31. The Prophets in Our Midst
32. The Cardinal Directions
The Feminine
33. Pachamama
34. The Real Thing
35. The Power of the Erotic
36. The Breasted One
37. Primary Issues
38. Uncontrollable Flows
39. A Birthing People
40. The Sun Woman
Conclusion
- Title: Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture
- Author: Kat Armas
- Publisher: Brazos Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781493440290, 9781587435096, 1587435098, 1493440292
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493440290
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-08-09T08:20:41Z
Kat Armas (MDiv and MAT, Fuller Theological Seminary), a Cuban American writer and speaker, hosts The Protagonistas podcast, where she highlights stories of everyday women of color, including writers, pastors, church leaders, and theologians. She is the author of Abuelita Faith and has written for Christianity Today, Sojourners, Relevant, Christians for Biblical Equality, Fuller Youth Institute, Fathom magazine, and Missio Alliance. Armas speaks regularly at conferences on race and justice and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.