Feminist Prayers for My Daughter: Powerful Petitions for Every Stage of Her Life - Paperback

by Shannon K. Evans (Author)

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.

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"This book is revolutionary for these times"

Spiritual language is often male-focused, overlooking the uniquely female experience. Shannon K. Evans believes our daughters deserve better.

This book of prayers for mothers to pray for their daughters encompasses all of life from birth to death while imagining God in ways that resonate with women's diverse experiences. It gives words to a woman's desire for the girls in her life to flourish in the modern world and breathes hope for a church that will give them equal power.

"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."
--Beth Allison Barr, professor, Baylor University; bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood

"A beautiful book of feminist prayers that are full of care, authenticity, and nuance--clear and gentle guidance for parents and children alike."
--Kaitlin B. Curtice, bestselling author of Native and Living Resistance

"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

"Evans 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. This book is revolutionary for these times."
--Asha Frost, Indigenous healer; bestselling author of You Are the Medicine

Author Biography

Shannon K. Evans, a writer in the contemplative Catholic tradition, is the author of Rewilding Motherhood: Your Path to an Empowered Feminine Spirituality and Embracing Weakness. She is an editor for National Catholic Reporter, a writer and retreat leader for the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, and a regular contributor to Franciscan Media. Evans has written for U.S. Catholic, America, and Geez magazines. She speaks regularly at churches, small groups, conferences, and retreats on topics related to motherhood, prayer, and justice, and leads groups in guided meditation. She is a mother of five and lives in Ames, Iowa.