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A Ministry Without a Pulpit Most religions have a place you are supposed to go.  A church. A temple. A mosque. A meetinghouse. A building with a door through which the faithful enter and, eventually, leave.  The Sisters of the Valley Ministry is being built differently. In that respect, of course, we are hardly inventing…

What Does a Matriarchal Ministry Look Like? For more than a decade, the Sisters of the Valley have lived with an unusual contradiction. We have been highly visible, but not always easily understood. People recognize the gowns. They recognize the activism, the plant medicine, the farm, the moon cycles and the images of women working…

Why the Sisters of the Valley Created a Ministry When the younger Sisters began talking seriously about creating a nonprofit ministry, Sister Kate asked them a question she believed every nonprofit should be able to answer. What problem does society have that your nonprofit will fix? Their answer was immediate: housing. It was not necessarily…