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Chelsea Kim Long


 Chelsea Kim Long

Chelsea Kim Long is an author, lay theologian, and meditation teacher exploring Christianity through the lens of women’s embodied experiences and contemplative spirituality. Her work invites readers to reimagine Christianity beyond patriarchy and toward a more expansive and inclusive expression of faith. She lives in San Diego with her husband and three kids, where she co-leads an intentional neighborhood faith community grounded in belonging and justice. Her debut nonfiction book is Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood Beyond Patriarchy. www.chelseakimlong.com  



EXPERIENCES
    Activity Time Information
    Show Date
    Fri 4 Sep 2026 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM
    Title ShortWhat Happens When the Feminine Leads
    Venue Forum
    Experience DescriptionThe church has long centered voices, frameworks, and leadership models shaped by the masculine—often expressed through control, hierarchy, and disembodiment. The feminine—intuition, relational wisdom, cyclical time, grief literacy, and embodied knowing—has been sidelined into near silence. But what if the future of a sustainable Christian faith depends on letting the feminine lead? In this talk, Chelsea draws from her forthcoming book Faithfully Dissident Daughters and her own reproductive journey and deconstruction to explore how patriarchal Christianity shaped her theology—and why it could no longer hold her. Rather than abandoning her tradition, she began reconstructing a faith rooted in women’s lived experience, embodied wisdom, and long-neglected images of the Divine as Mother, Wisdom, and Spirit. This is one woman’s lived theology offered as an invitation. What might emerge in our churches and communities if the feminine helps shape our theology and leadership? What happens when we trust our own bodies and stories as sites of spiritual authority? The future of Christianity may depend on the answers to these questions.
    Show Date
    Sat 5 Sep 2026 4:00 PM to 4:50 PM
    Title ShortWaning Moon Ritual
    Venue Make Believe
    Presbyterian / 1001 Worshiping Communities
    Experience DescriptionThis year at Wild Goose Festival we are under a waning moon. The waning moon is a phase of diminishing light—an invitation to turn inward, listen more closely, and practice release. In many Christian spaces, we’ve been trained to distrust the body’s wisdom, to override intuition, and to treat our “irrational” emotions as problems to fix. But what if our emotions are holy guidance? In this intimate, candle-lit nighttime circle, we’ll create a share a simple altar space and enter a grounded ritual of discernment and letting go. Through guided meditation, journaling, optional sharing, and a shared embodied release practice, participants will be invited to name what they’re ready to lay down—harmful beliefs, self-doubt, old identities, expectations, and the stories that keep them bound. This gathering is for anyone—regardless of gender identity or expression—who wants to honor natural rhythm as a metaphor for faithful discernment, making room for both light and dark within us, and trusting the inner sanctuary of knowing.