(Rev) SARAH BOWEN

 Animal Chaplain, Writer, Educator, & Spirituality Mentor
Ordained Interfaith, Interspiritual, Interspecies Clergy | Award-winning Spirituality Author | Academic staff @ One Spirit Interfaith Seminary | Founding Member of the Compassion Consortium | Member of Spiritual Directors International | Member of the Association for Pet Loss & Bereavement | Co-host "Big Universe" podcast | Columnist, Spirituality & Health Magazine

JOIN SARAH FOR SUNDAY SERVICE!

Experience Interspecies Spirituality
​with the Compassion Consortium

Each service includes immersive spiritual practices—such as musical reflection, meditation, prayer, and loving-kindness—as well as a spiritual conversation with a special guest. 

UPCOMING EVENTS

SUNDAY SERVICES
​(MONTHLY)

Non-sectarian monthly worship services with interfaith reflection, music, meditation, and a conversation with guest speaker. Open to all faiths & species! (Free)

BEYOND DOMINION & STEWARDSHIP
​(NOVEMBER 2021)

A workshop for Christian clergy and congregational leaders for aligning biblical tenets with planetary welfare, biodiversity loss, and the welfare of animals.

SACRED SENDOFFS
(MULTIPLE DATES)

A workshop for animal lovers of any spiritual tradition for healing animal loss and celebrating animal lives. 

SCHEDULe A 1-on-1

Looking for a spirituality mentor?
Unpacking inherited beliefs from your birth religion?
Animal advocate looking for support?
Grieving the loss of a human or animal companion?

FEATURED TALKS & PODCASTS

WHAT IS AN ANIMAL CHAPLAIN?

Sarah talks about interspecies spirituality with Rabbi Rami Shapiro on S&H's "Essential Conversations" podcast.

I'M AWAKE! NoW WHAT?

Sarah shares how to be spiritually rebellious with Krista Xiomara.

Take Anywhere

Sarah talks about the intersection of animal ethics & spirituality with Jane Velez-Mitchell.

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BOOKS

SACRED SENDOFFS:
AN ANIMAL CHAPLAIN's advice for suriving animal loss, making life meaningful, & trying to save the planet

We do not journey alone. The majority of human households also include an animal family member. Our actions affect them, and they affect us. How can we strengthen our interspecies bonds? How do we prepare for the joy of a new animal companion, the confusion of messy health decisions, and the devastation of death or loss? Beyond home, how do we extend compassion to the 8.7 million other species we share this interdependent planet with? As animal lovers, what does our sacred activism look like on behalf of those “without a human voice”?  Join animal chaplain Sarah Bowen as she explores these questions through the lenses of science and spirituality.​

“A gift to all human animals seeking to live more reverently and lovingly within the larger web of life." —  Cody J. Sanders, Chaplain at Harvard University

“If we heed Bowen’s teachings, perhaps animals will help us become more nonviolent toward one another―and teach us how to be human.” — Father John Dear, peace activist and author of The Nonviolent Life and other books

“Sarah Bowen’s magnificent manifesto Sacred Sendoffs is a call to acknowledge the divine Aliveness manifesting as our animal companions. If you befriend animals, read this book. If you don’t, read this book anyway and you will.”
― Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent

    COMING SPRING 2022
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SPIRITUAL REBEL:
A POSITIVELY ADDICTIVE GUIDE TO FINDING DEEPER PERSPECTIVE & HIGHER PURPOSE
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An indispensable guide for modern seekers. Mining the world's philosophical, scientific, and wisdom traditions, "Spiritual Rebel" offers 21 days of creative practices to try out including forest bathing, meditating with animals, and visiting spiritually charged locations, just to name a few. A preacher's kid originally inspired by the Force of Star Wars, Sarah confesses her challenges with her birth religion, descent into addiction, and recovery into a life where everything can be sacred. (Monkfish Publishing)

"A lighthearted, upbeat take on questions that have churned within human minds for millennia."―Spirituality & Health Book Review

A Nautilus Book Award Winner

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VOID IF DETACHED:
SEEKING MODERN SPIRITUALITY THrOUGH MY FATHER's old sermons
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A thoughtful and intelligent guide to Christian (and other) religious ideas through the eyes of an educated, kindly minister and his loving, but questioning, daughter. This is not your traditional bible study!

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Animals, THe Planet, & US: CREATING SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS FOR THRIVING

Love animals & spirituality? Want to dig into what spiritual traditions teach about animals and try interspecies practices? Learn how to help animals & the planet, try reflective exercises, and hear from special guests Amanda Ree (Samadog), Aline Silva (Creature Kind), Azaria Ulmer (Tree Sisters), Jacy Reese (Sentience Institute), Judy Carman (Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals), Kathy Stevens (Catskill Animal Sanctuary), Lisa Levinson (In Defense of Animals), and more.

SARAH'S WRITINGS ON ANIMALS & SPIRITUALITY

TRICYCLE:THE BUDDHIST REVIEW

“You Have a Church for Cats?” The Service of an Animal Chaplain" 

ELEPHANT JOURNAL

"The Lion Thing: A Powerful Meditation with Big Cats & Cozy Kitties" 

SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH

Read all Sarah's weekly articles for Spirituality & Health Magazine​

FEATURED MEDITATION

THE SPIRITUALTARIAN VIDEO SERIES

Sarah talks with experts in the fields of animal advocacy, animal spirituality, sustainable activism, and environmental ethics, in search of solutions for helping the more-than-human world thrive.

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​the finned, & the winged

Animal Advocacy
Pet Blessings & Adoption Support
Companion for Pet Passings
Pet Loss & Bereavement Support

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