The Tuning Fork
You’ll get a fuller understanding of The Tuning Fork by reading my Welcome post.
My name is Vanessa and I am an artist, spiritual director, and practical theologian.
I create hospitable spaces for people outside (and inside) of religion to be encountered by aliveness in the Jewish-Christian tradition.
I hope The Tuning Fork might become such a space.
If our Modern world is going through a dark night of the soul, we will need to draw from deeper imaginal waters than those offered by that world.
Perhaps my writing might become a receptacle that people can use to draw from the deeper imaginal waters...the deep wells...of the Jesus traditions in order to return home and water their own lands.
I won’t be trying to convince anyone of anything. I just create spaces for encounter.
I write from my body. And I write as a woman.
The Christian tradition forgot about women and it forgot about the body. Of the human and of the earth.
It then condemned those that hadn’t.
It forgot its Jewish roots. There is nothing abstract about the Hebrew Bible. It is embodied. Of the earth.
I write from within the Jewish-Christian tradition in resistance to that forgetfulness (which has caused immeasurable harm).
Perhaps re-membering the tradition can bear good fruit for these days.
I will post a c.3000 word essay every 3-4 weeks, with not much going on, initially at least, in between.
They will be freely available, but if you would like to support me financially nonetheless that would be VERY helpful.
(Putting my experience into words takes me a long time, and I am self-employed. So if my writing can begin to sustain itself the rest of my life will be much relieved).
You can find out more about me here and can get an idea of how people experience me as a person (only the good stuff mind you) here.
Painting my own - ‘Into the Deep’
