Where Wounds Become Jewels: Hildegard’s Healing TheologyÂ
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What if your wounds were also seeds?
In this session, Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher invites us into the fierce tenderness of Hildegard of Bingen—a medieval mystic who sang of the “greening” power of God. Join us to explore Hildegard’s embodied spirituality, her visionary courage, and her theology of suffering that honors both sacred rage and deep compassion. Discover how Hildegard resisted corruption, embraced the natural world as kin, and turned music, grief, illness, and joy into a lifelong conversation with the Divine. This session is an invitation to live more fully in your body, your creativity, and your sacred interconnectedness.
Speaker bio:Â
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Ph.D., is an award-winning translator, poet, and workshop leader. She has been interviewed on the BBC’s Compass, NPR’s Morning Edition, Contemplify, Abbey of the Arts Lift Every Voice: Contemplative Writers of Color, Dante’s Old South, Things Not Seen on NPR stations through PRX, Spirituality & Practice Off the Page, Deacons Pod, Contemplative Outreach International’s Opening Minds, Opening Hearts, (Re)Thinking Faith, Messy Jesus Business, Encountering Silence, and many others. Her Cloud of Unknowing translation received a 46th Georgia Author of the Year Award, and her translation of Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence was named on the Best Books of 2022 List by Spirituality & Practice. Her works include Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader, A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics, and Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict, among others. Carmen’s work has also been featured in Parabola: The Search for Meaning, in Sojourners, in Religion News Service, as well as in the documentary Hildegard of Bingen and the Living Light (Landmark Productions). She has given workshops at the University of California, Berkeley, at Columbia University in NYC, at Sogang University in Seoul, and more, as well as for Contemplative Outreach International, Spiritual Directors International, Closer Than Breath, and others. Carmen holds degrees in Medieval Studies from the University of Georgia, Phi Beta Kappa, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, and she was a Rotary Graduate Scholar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. She teaches in the College Writing Programs at the University of California, Berkeley, and she is a Visiting Faculty at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Visit Carmen online at her website https://www.carmenbutcher.com/, at linktr.ee/carmenacevedobutcher, at www.youtube.com/@CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence, or @cab_phd on Instagram.
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Where Wounds Become Jewels: Hildegard’s Healing TheologyÂ
 CLICK FOR SESSION DESCRIPTIONÂ
What if your wounds were also seeds?
In this session, Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher invites us into the fierce tenderness of Hildegard of Bingen—a medieval mystic who sang of the “greening” power of God. Join us to explore Hildegard’s embodied spirituality, her visionary courage, and her theology of suffering that honors both sacred rage and deep compassion. Discover how Hildegard resisted corruption, embraced the natural world as kin, and turned music, grief, illness, and joy into a lifelong conversation with the Divine. This session is an invitation to live more fully in your body, your creativity, and your sacred interconnectedness.
Speaker bio:Â
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Ph.D., is an award-winning translator, poet, and workshop leader. She has been interviewed on the BBC’s Compass, NPR’s Morning Edition, Contemplify, Abbey of the Arts Lift Every Voice: Contemplative Writers of Color, Dante’s Old South, Things Not Seen on NPR stations through PRX, Spirituality & Practice Off the Page, Deacons Pod, Contemplative Outreach International’s Opening Minds, Opening Hearts, (Re)Thinking Faith, Messy Jesus Business, Encountering Silence, and many others. Her Cloud of Unknowing translation received a 46th Georgia Author of the Year Award, and her translation of Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence was named on the Best Books of 2022 List by Spirituality & Practice. Her works include Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader, A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics, and Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict, among others. Carmen’s work has also been featured in Parabola: The Search for Meaning, in Sojourners, in Religion News Service, as well as in the documentary Hildegard of Bingen and the Living Light (Landmark Productions). She has given workshops at the University of California, Berkeley, at Columbia University in NYC, at Sogang University in Seoul, and more, as well as for Contemplative Outreach International, Spiritual Directors International, Closer Than Breath, and others. Carmen holds degrees in Medieval Studies from the University of Georgia, Phi Beta Kappa, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, and she was a Rotary Graduate Scholar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. She teaches in the College Writing Programs at the University of California, Berkeley, and she is a Visiting Faculty at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Visit Carmen online at her website https://www.carmenbutcher.com/, at linktr.ee/carmenacevedobutcher, at www.youtube.com/@CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence, or @cab_phd on Instagram.
