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b"Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber discusses the revolutionary work of the Holy Women Icons Project. As an intersectionally ecofeminist organization, the Holy Women Icons Project seeks to empower marginalized women and to be an accomplice in the work for justice for ethnic and racial minorities, women, LGBTQs, people with differing abilities, immigrants and refugees, the poor, animals, the earth, and all living at the margins of society.\\nThis is the fifth and final episode in my series Revisioning Christianity. The series began with the icon of anastasis and it ends with icons of holy women throughout history, religion, and mythology.Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber is the Founder and Executive Director of the\\xa0Holy Women Icons Project.\\xa0The Holy Women Icons Project seeks to empower marginalized women by telling the stories of revolutionary holy women through art, writing, and special events. Noticing a lack of women in iconography, she gave traditional iconography a folk-feminist twist by painting images of revolutionary holy women from history, mythology, and scripture. The Holy Women Icons Project also includes special events, retreats, workshops, lectures, sermons, and worship series related to these revolutionary holy women. And in 2017, HWIP began creating a retreat center on Hawaii Island to house these special events, artwork, and writings.\\xa0\\nDr. Yarber speaks with John Shuck about her own journey toward simplicity, a renewed vocation, and her vision for queering the church by making the church fully inclusive and empowering for all people. She discusses her move to Hawaii with her wife and child, turning Holy Women Icons Project into a non-profit, her work in building self-esteem among adolescent girls, traversing grief, and honoring the stories of queer women of color through the Holy Women Icons Project. You can see and hear more of their story on the television show,\\xa0Tiny House Nation.\\xa0Rev. Dr. Yarber holds a Ph.D. in Art and Religion and is author of seven books that address the intersections among gender/sexuality, religion/spirituality, and the arts. An ordained, queer clergywoman, she served local churches for fourteen years, and she has taught graduate and undergraduate students since 2006. Her books include\\xa0Microaggressions in Ministry,\\xa0Holy Women Icons,\\xa0Holy Women Icons Contemplative Coloring Book,\\xa0The Gendered Pulpit,\\xa0Dance in Scripture,\\xa0Tearing Open the Heavens, &\\xa0Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions.\\xa0Other guests in the series, Revisioning Christianity include:\\nJohn Dominic Crossan,\\xa0Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East kept the Original Easter Vision,\\nBart Ehrman:\\xa0\\xa0The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept the World,\\nDavid Skrbina:\\xa0The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul\\u2019s Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years, andBishop John Shelby Spong: Unbelievable: How Neither Ancient Creeds nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today.All of those interviews are available on podcast at\\xa0Progressive Spirit."