Myke Johnson

“Inside each of us is a mystery seed, a seed of what we might become. It is the divine within us that connects with the divine beyond us.” - Myke Johnson

This episode of Queer Spirit interviewed lesbian mystic, activist, and retired Unitarian Universalist minister Myke Johnson. The conversation explored Myke’s spiritual journey from Catholicism to more earth-based spiritualities, the connection between spirituality and justice activism, and the seeds of divinity within every person.

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About

Myke Johnson, author of Finding Our Way Home: A Spiritual Journey into Earth Community, describes herself as a lesbian mystic, earth activist, and retired Unitarian Universalist minister. Myke lives in Portland Maine with her partner Margy and two cats. She blogs at https://findingourwayhome.blog.

Almost two years ago, back in April 2020, Myke wrote this: “I wake in the night with pain in my heart for all that is happening in our country, and I feel utterly powerless. I’ve been an activist most of my life, and I believed and hoped that activism might help to change the world for the better. In some ways, it has. But the dream -- of a whole society rooted in cooperation and mutuality, in care for all of its people -- feels lost in a nightmare of empire that’s re-emerging like a multi-headed dragon from the flames of disaster.”

Myke then posed two questions: “How can we respond to a reign of terror? How can we respond to cruelty after cruelty promulgated by people in power?”

At the close of this blog entry, writing as the mystic-activist that you are, Myke offered this prayer: “O, Holy one, you who are with us in the midst of our powerlessness, help us to let go of what we cannot control. Help us to shift our focus to what is possible, to what really matters. Bless those . . . who are risking their lives right now to look after the sick, to bring food to the hungry. Help us to seek your presence among those considered the ‘least’ among us.”

A kindred spirit, feminist mystic and social activist Elly Haney, put it similarly: It all boils down to vision and struggle. In the best of days and the worst of days, hold onto the vision, and stay in the struggle.