Danáe M. Ashley
The Rev. Danáe Ashley is an Episcopal priest and licensed marriage and family therapist who has ministered with parishes in North Carolina, New York, Minnesota, and the Seattle area and is a psychotherapist at Soul Spa Seattle, LLC. She also joined the Episcopal Church’s CREDO Faculty in 2022. Danáe uses art, music, drama, poetry, and movement in counseling, spiritual direction, and creation of ritual. She has written for Working Preacher, Luther Seminary’s Faith+Lead, Sermons that Work, Fidelia’s Sisters, and other publications, as well as being a contributor to podcasts, books, and producing a play about fertility struggle. Her latest adventure has been on pilgrimage with St. Hildegard von Bingen: speaking and writing about Hildegard, viriditas, and psychotherapy. She is working on her forthcoming book about these subjects. Danae’s favorite pastimes include reading, traveling with her husband, making sure their rescue dog Cooper is living his best life, dancing with wild abandon to Celtic music, and serious karaoke. Learn more about her work at soulspaseattle.com.
Sermons and Bible Studies
Journey Through Grief, Proper 28 (B) – 2018
In a church much like this one, a woman stays behind in the pews after the service. She is sitting at the back, off to the side, so no one […]
Bread, Law, and Spirit, Proper 4 (B) – 2018
“During the bombing raids of World War II, thousands of children were orphaned and left to starve. The fortunate ones were rescued and placed in refugee camps where they received […]
Love in Translation, Christ the King (A) – 2017
The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and the season after Pentecost is coming to a close. It is the longest season of the church year, marking […]
Our Particular Community, Easter 5 (A) – 2017
The Scriptures this morning draw us to reflect on what it means to be community. We each have our own communities that we come here from on Sunday, but we […]
There Once Was a Wise…, Proper 14 (C) – 2016
There once was a wise communications professor who had her students engage in an observation exercise. She handed out a picture of an elderly man sitting on some front steps. […]
Loving Like a Mother Hen, Lent 2 (C) – 2016
One moonlit night a Fox was prowling about a farmer’s chicken coop, and saw a Hen roosting high up beyond his reach. “Good news, good news!” he cried. “Why, what […]
God’s Story, Our Story, Proper 19 (B) – 2015
On October 1, 1996 a book called The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks made its debut. Almost ten years later, on June 25, 2004, the movie adaptation came out with the story coming […]
Is There Healing without Curing? Epiphany 5 (B) – 2015
Sometimes it’s difficult to get a conversation started or bring discussion to a deeper level. Luckily, there’s a game called TableTopics that is meant to get conversation started between two […]
Walking the Walk, Proper 21 (A) – 2014
Imagine you are watching television and a commercial comes on. The camera pans out over a tranquil beach scene where a family is enjoying the sun and the water. One […]
Finding Value in What Others Overlook, Proper 12 (A) – 2014
In the Finger Lakes region of central New York, you can find a delicious and unique treat: concord grape pie. Like many other places in the United States, there are […]
Stone Soup, Last Sunday in Epiphany (A) – 2014
Once upon a time, in a land much like ours, there were some weary travelers who came to a village with nothing but a cooking pot. They found a place […]
Paying the Price of Mercy, Proper 10 (C) – 2013
There once was a run-down coffee shop in a neighborhood that was known for being dangerous. One day, an Episcopal priest came in to get some coffee on his way […]
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