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title: Essays, Epistles, and Philosophies on Love and Life (2)
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# The Living Canon

The canon is open. It grows. Member-submitted and clergy-created prayers, essays, analyses, research, poems, and testimony are accepted as scripture on an ongoing basis.

**Canon includes:**

- *Our Bodies, Ourselves – Boston Women's Health Book Collective*
- *The Vagina Monologues – Eve Ensler*
- *Pleasure Activism – adrienne maree brown*
- *The Fragments of Sappho – Sappho; translated by Anne Carson*
- *Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde*
- *The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir*
- *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman –Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792*

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*The suppression of indigenous wisdom and the severing of humans from land-based consciousness have been catastrophic. The Church of the Holy emerges from within that brokenness, attempting to rebuild bridges through the language of the culture that did the breaking.*

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