Mysterium Church

A virtual community dedicated to the animist, ecological, and embodied teachings of Christ Jesus

ON SUMMER BREAK, WILL RESUME IN SEPTEMBER

The incarnate God adores material reality.

All matter is infused with Spirit.

Illustration of the seasons by Hildegard von Bingen

Mysterium Church is an online “Christianimist” community space (not a legally recognized church) for those exploring animist Christianity — meaning, a Christianity that sees all incarnate reality as imbued with Spirit.

In contrast to the bizarre, anti-flesh turn taken by the tradition centuries ago (which contradicts the faith’s foundational premise of loving an incarnate God), animist Christianity is simultaneously radical and orthodox; Christianism aligns with the core tenets of Jesus’s ministry while rejecting the church’s later adherence to imperial motives.

Mysterium Church is for those who:

  • ascribe to (or are intrigued by) animist, panentheistic, and liberation theologies

  • sense (or wish to sense) that material reality is infused with sacrality

  • who celebrate (or want to celebrate) the incarnate God’s unending process of becoming embodied

  • experience all things (or want to learn how to experience all things) — including so-called “inanimate objects”, humans, other animals, plants, minerals, landscapes, celestial bodies, and vast ecosystems — as manifestations of the divine (which encompasses yet also exceeds all things).

We engage in embodied/somatic practices that facilitate communion with the incarnate world, worshipping with (not simply in) our bodies and the environments around us.

If this sounds interesting, you’re invited to nurture personal, communal, ecological, and spiritual wholeness with others at Mysterium Church.

foundress + facilitator

I’m Gabriela, a devoted Christianimist with extensive training in Christian ministry, theology, animist frameworks/practices, and spiritual care. I created Mysterium Church so more people could experience the resonance between traditional animism and Jesus’s teachings.

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LGBTQ+, non-monogamous, divorced, disabled, chronically ill, low-income, BIPOC, and non-Christian folks (among others) are cherished at Mysterium Church. Come as you are, whatever your background or beliefs.