Sande Ramage

Soul Pilates with a Spirited Crone

Skip to content
Menu
  • Home
  • About Sande
  • Spirited Crone Blog
    • Compassion
    • Creative Arts
      • Art
      • Books
      • Movies
      • Music
      • Poetry
      • Prayer: the cry of the human heart
    • Festivals
      • ANZAC
      • Lectionary
      • Christmas
      • Epiphany
      • Easter
    • Jungian themes
    • Mortality
      • Abortion
      • Bodies
      • Euthanasia
      • Death and Dying
      • Obituary
      • Sexuality
    • Religion
      • Church
      • Rethinking Christianity
    • Spirituality
      • What is Spirituality?
      • God
      • Faith
      • Mysticism
      • Mythology
      • Spirituality and science
      • Spirituality in Health
      • Theology

Category: God

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms
Books

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms

Posted on 6 December 201530 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

I didn’t expect to find myself humming the old hymn Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise at the launch of Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms. But, as I listened to Rohana Ulluwishewa talk about our inner and outer realities…

Living with my desk skull
Faith

Living with my desk skull

Posted on 31 August 201530 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Amongst the debris on my desk sits a small skull. It’s just big enough to remind me that I’m not long for this world. No, I don’t have a diagnosis that may make you feel awkward, other than being terminally…

Anna the void and her imprint
God

Anna the void and her imprint

Posted on 9 August 20154 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

Crying into my muesli was familiar territory in the days when hormones were more rampant, usually activated by the loss of some love or a response to the all-encompassing despair that used to dog my footsteps. The loves are gone…

Shared vulnerability: the key to soulful & just end of life choices
Bodies

Shared vulnerability: the key to soulful & just end of life choices

Posted on 19 June 201518 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

I used to love the story of Little Red Riding Hood. There was something deliciously appealing about getting dressed up in an elegant red cape and sauntering off into the world alone. Grandma turning into the wolf didn’t bother me,…

Supping Sam Hunt Sober
Art

Supping Sam Hunt Sober

Posted on 14 June 201430 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Last time I saw Sam Hunt perform I was drunk in a pub in Wellington. We all were, him too most likely. It was what you did at those gigs where poetry and plonk were like riding a bicycle for…

Dirty laundry leads to Easter grave turning
Bodies

Dirty laundry leads to Easter grave turning

Posted on 20 April 201430 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

My Mum always said we shouldn’t wash our dirty linen in public. Secrets, lies, and doubts about anything, particularly the godstuff, were for the privacy of our own kitchen and closed down before they got too heretical. What mattered was…

Crumbling Christianity good news for Kiwis
Christmas

Crumbling Christianity good news for Kiwis

Posted on 28 December 201330 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Joy to the world, the angels at Statistics New Zealand are singing a new song . Anglicans and Protestants are on the eve of destruction. We’ve got about 20 years left. By 2054, (my 100th birthday!) Christianity, except for Roman Catholicism, will probably not…

on rape, stagnant pools and echoes in the void
Art

on rape, stagnant pools and echoes in the void

Posted on 17 November 201325 July 2018 by Sande Ramage

no matter how much we protest about rape (haven’t women been experiencing this forever, remember Dinah in Genesis and when we thought our marching might take back the night) no matter how many rape laws are drafted, enacted people imprisoned,…

Hospital chaplaincy beyond religious control?
Church

Hospital chaplaincy beyond religious control?

Posted on 27 October 201330 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Sometimes truth is so hard to stomach that even though it stares you in the face and shouts itself hoarse trying to be heard we remain oblivious to its presence. This may be because the emerging truth demands much of…

Challenging God as nothing at all
God

Challenging God as nothing at all

Posted on 7 October 201230 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Rainbows are a universal sign of hope, although they only exist in the eyes of the people who see them and sometimes in their photos.  How intriguing then that biblical storytellers saw this trick of light as the sign of…

Posts navigation

Previous Page Page 1 … Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next Page
  • We are overcome with desire, struggling with the congenital all-embracing ache that lies at the centre of human experience, the ultimate force that drives everything else. Ronald Rolheiser in Seeking Spirituality
  • Email
  • Facebook

blog posts

© Copyright 2025 – Sande Ramage
Wisteria Theme by WPFriendship ⋅ Powered by WordPress