tranquility du jour #322: feminine spirituality
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the 322nd edition of Tranquility du Jour. Today's show features Ashley Goff on Feminine Spirituality. You'll get an inside peek into the life of an urban farming, yoga-loving, passion-filled minister.
Featured Guest: Ashley Goff is Minister for Spiritual Formation at Church of the Pilgrims (PCUSA) and ordained in the United Church of Christ. Ashley graduated with a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in NYC where she fell in love with the art of liturgy.
She lives with deep gratitude for several communities which have formed her along the way: Denison University, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, the Open Door Community, and Rikers Island NYC Jail. Ashley has completed training in community organizing with the Industrial Areas Foundation and couples counseling with Imago Relationship Therapy.
Ashley also finds life in Springsteen music, beekeeping, urban farming, vinyasa yoga, valuable friends, her three kids and loveable spouse. "Om-ing" at Tranquil Space since 2005, Ashley completed TS's level 1 teacher training in January 2014. Ashley blogs about yoga, urban farming, and liturgy at godofthesparrow.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, September 8, 2014. |
| 0:08.1 | Bonjour and welcome to the 32nd 2nd edition of Tranquility DeJure. |
| 0:14.7 | My name is Kimberly Wilson. |
| 0:16.4 | We're recording from the Pink Palace in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:19.8 | And today's show features Ashley Goff on Feminine Spirituality. |
| 0:25.0 | You'll go to peek inside the life of an urban farming, yoga-loving, passion-filled minister, |
| 0:31.3 | who also has a penchant for all the animal crackers that we have at the yoga studio. |
| 0:36.5 | So, big, big welcome welcome and thank you to the |
| 0:39.3 | lovely Ashley for joining us on today's episode. And before we turn over to Ashley, I want to say a |
| 0:46.0 | big thank you and a shout out to everyone who has passed along a sweet essay on how Tranquility |
| 0:51.4 | DeJure. The blog has affected you over the years or months that you've been |
| 0:56.6 | reading. And if you haven't had a chance and you'd like to submit an essay, it may be, |
| 1:02.3 | and I'd love for it to be, included in the upcoming anthology. So the anthology releases next |
| 1:08.2 | month, and it's going to be this beautiful, beautiful book |
| 1:11.1 | that's a compilation of nearly 100 essays pulled from the past 10 years of the blog, updated |
| 1:18.6 | with some new fodder, new inspiration, and beautiful photographs kind of sprinkled throughout. |
| 1:24.9 | So if you would like to submit a piece for it, please pass it along, |
| 1:28.9 | 250 to 400 words and just letting me know how Tranquility DeJure has had an impact on you. |
| 1:36.0 | And is Tranquility DeJure the blog, not the podcast? The podcast actually turns nine this month, |
| 1:41.8 | which is amazing. But the blog turns 10 next month. So if you have something, |
| 1:46.9 | I would be honored to receive it. Now, without further ado, the lovely Ashley Gough is minister |
| 1:53.2 | for spiritual formation at Church of the Pilgrims and ordained in the United Church of Christ. |
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