Hi! I’m Julia!

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🕊️ I help you lead a rich spiritual life through ritual, retreats by linking your innate wisdom & embodied knowing to ancient Christian tradition
💃🏼Rev. Dr. Priestess of Nature, birth and death doula, and doula of Life-force, Dancing the edges of Christianity
🌲 Northern Mama, amateur gardener, gluten free baker and forager, east coast girl in the upper-Midwest, feminist lover of the earth & justice and being wild and free

I am the senior pastor of Orchard Ridge United Church of Church in Madison, WI, and I LOVE my people and my work. I am also passionate about building community and creating sacred space for those who are outside of the church, the spiritual but not religious who have deep spiritual knowing and yearning but no longer resonate with church.

There is a wave of spiritual awakening happening for women and I seek to empower a "Priestess-hood of all believers," - for the women who know the person of Jesus and the essence of Christ to be wildly feminist, mystical, nature and body honoring & justice seeking, and want to weave the truth of tradition with the cycles of the earth and the moon and the innate knowing and wisdom.

As a United Church of christ and I am an Earth Priestess. I stand at the convergence of Sacred Feminine Earth Honoring Spirituality and the Christian tradition. 

I am an ever student, with formal degrees from Villanova University with BA in History, Union Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity in Worship & The Arts & Bible & a Doctor of Ministry in Visioning and historical Truth & Reconciliation from Hartford International. I am a MAMA GLOW doula, an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator, and part of the United Church of Christ's Next Generation Leadership Initiative of young clergy.