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NOW AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES FROM MONKFISH PUBLISHING
SACRED SENDOFFS:

An Animal Chaplain’s Advice For Surviving Animal Loss, Making Life Meaningful, & Healing The Plane
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"If there is one book you choose to read about how to enjoy and improve your relationships with animals and fully appreciate who they truly are, this is the one."
― MARC BEKOFF, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals and other books; professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder


"An ardent invitation to multispecies mourning for our more-than-human companions, from our beloved pets, to the deer on the side of the road, to the rapidly increasing extinction of species on our shared planet"
―CODY J. SANDERS, Chaplain at Harvard University & Advisor in the Office of Religious, Spiritual, & Ethical Life, MIT

"If we heed Bowen's teachings, perhaps animals will help us become more nonviolent toward one another―and teach us how to be human."
―JOHN DEAR author of The Nonviolent Life, Living Peace and other books; executive director of www.beatitudescenter.org


“Bowen covers a great deal of ground here, creating a new paradigm for thinking about the way we treat our closest companions and fellow beings. And she offers hope for the future, reminding us that learning to value animals in life and death may be the first step toward saving our beloved planet.” 
― Book Review, Spirituality & Health Magazine


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JNN NETWORK

Sarah talks animal rights & spirituality with Jane Velez-Mitchell.
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I'M AWAKE! Now WHAT?

Sarah shares how to be spiritually rebellious with Krista Xiomara.
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SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH

Sarah talks about interspecies spirituality with Rabbi Rami Shapiro.
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SACRED SENDOFFS

An Animal Chaplain’s Advice For Surviving Animal Loss, Making Life Meaningful, & Trying To Heal The Planet

Combining humorous anecdotes and thought-provoking research, Sacred Sendoffs explores human relationships with beloved pets, wild creatures, animal astronauts, marine life, farmed animals, and other sentient beings. Along the way, animal chaplain Sarah Bowen shares insights for sustaining lives, honoring deaths, and managing the emotions that arise when we lose an animal we love. While many books focus exclusively on pet loss, environmental issues, or animal welfare, Sacred Sendoffs takes on all three, revealing their unavoidable entanglement. Bowen’s ever curious and playful style tackles tough topics―recovering from personal grief, deconstructing human biases, and acknowledging planetary challenges―by gently guiding readers through reflective exercises and creative spiritual practices. Sacred Sendoffs uncovers practical actions and everyday opportunities for helping the more-than-human world not only survive but thrive.

“Sarah Bowen’s magnificent manifesto Sacred Sendoffs is a call to acknowledge the divine Aliveness manifesting as our animal companions. If you befriend animals, read this book. If you don’t, read this book anyway and you will.”
― Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent

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SPIRITUAL REBEL

A Positively Addictive Guide to Finding Deeper Perspective & Higher Purpose

A Spirituality & Health Magazine "100 Books We Love" pick | Nautilus, Foreword INDIES, & IBPA Book Awards
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An indispensable guide for modern seekers offering 21 days of creative spiritual practices to try out including forest bathing, meditating with animals, and visiting spiritually charged locations, just to name a few. A preacher's kid originally inspired by the Force of Star Wars, Sarah confesses her challenges with her birth religion, descent into addiction, and recovery into a life where everything can be sacred. (Monkfish Publishing)

"A lighthearted, upbeat take on questions that have churned within human minds for millennia."―Spirituality & Health Book Review

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VOID IF DETACHED

Seeking Modern Spirituality through My Father's Old Sermons

Nautilus, Body/Mind/Spirit, and Indie Reader Book Awards

A thoughtful and intelligent guide to Christian (and other) religious ideas through the eyes of an educated, kindly minister and his loving, but questioning, daughter. This is not your traditional bible study!

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