Essays by Patricia Adams Farmer

Essays on the Spiritual Alphabet

"A" is for Attention
"B" is for Being Present
"B" is for Beauty
"C" is for Compassion
"C" is for Connections
"D" is for Devotion
"E" is for Enthusiasm
​"F" is for Faith
​"F" is for Forgiveness
"G" is for Grace
"G" is for Gratitude
"H" is for Hope
"H" is for Hospitality
"I" is for Imagination
​"J"  is for Joy
​"J" is for Justice
​"M" is for Meaning
"P" is for Play
"S" is for Silence
​"T" is for Transformation
"U" is for Unity
"V" is for Vision

Photo: Susannah Stubbs

Essays on Beauty, Philosophy, Mutual Becoming, Grief and Joy

​Sunflowers for Distressed Hearts: Patricia Adams Farmer
A Lovely Luminosity: Why Process Thought Inspires Me 
The Beauty of Imperfection
The Great Pregnancy
What is Fat Soul Philosophy?
Gravity and Grief
Grief Takes a Road Trip
Language, Luck, and Lures
Boston the Beautiful
No Tiny God
The Sky Remains
Patience is All
Fat Soul
Novel Theology: Confessions of a Whiteheadian Novelist
On the Gratitude of Trees
A Bejeweled World
Defiant Joy
Love All Beginnings
Under the Red Hats: White Rage and the Quest for Empathy
A Theology of Tea
The Beauty of an Open-Ended Life
Beauty as a Spiritual Home
An Antidote to the Ugliness of Trumpism
Cropping Out All Green at Sixty
When the Devil Goes to Church
Black Bean Brownies and Grace
The Creative Life
After the Terror, I Return to Etty Hillesum
Growing an Ecological Soul with Help from Pope Francis
The Pope's Favorite Verb
Inhabit Your Situation
The Meaning of Success Revisited
The Numinosity of Rocks
​Mary Oliver and the World of Everywhere: Patricia Adams Farmer
Advice to a Young Writer: Patricia Adams Farmer

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Patricia Adams Farmer (patriciaadamsfarmer.com) is an ordained minister, process theologian, and author.  Her works include two books of narrative theology, Embracing a Beautiful God (2003) and Fat Soul: A Philosophy of S-I-Z-E (2016), two theological novels, The Metaphor Maker (2009) and Fat Soul Fridays (2013), and editor/contributor (with Jay McDaniel) of an anthology of essays from ecological thinkers around the world, Replanting Ourselves in Beauty (2015).  She is a regular contributor to Spirituality & Practice, sharing the blog  Process Musings with Jay McDaniel.