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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I am co-leading a 4 part conversation series on sacred activism. It starts next Tuesday. Are you interested in joining?

Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Time is almost up to sign up for our 4-part conversation series “Alchemising Activism…” Phoebe and I are so excited to offer this to you to counter the depletion, the hopelessness, the overwhelm, and the uncertainty we are witnessing in activism today.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Feels like there's a great deal to learn about ourselves from what we're seeing world leaders doing. How are we unnecessarily raising the stakes in our own communities, when it comes to collaboration, energetic exchanges, and cooperation? We need to have a good hard look at ourselves.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is the most important most lifegiving conversation that we could possibly have right now. This is the most vital and courageous offering I have ever personally taken part in. Please consider joining us and adding your voice to the conversations we will have together. ALL ARE WELCOME.

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OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation @onespiritorg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” 🌟 – Desmond Tutu Inspiration for your Monday 💭

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

When it comes to being a reverend, I expand the term to encompass more and more of what the world needs. Right now, my biggest focus is on all the ways sacred activism can bring about true, lasting, living peace in ways that we can act upon ourselves, fully within our own power and means.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

On Trans Visibility Day, I not only celebrate my trans loved ones who have the freedom to be visible— I also celebrate those who don’t.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

On my way to Seattle on urgent semi-pastoral care business. Please keep me and my loved ones in your prayers. Please also take this as your cue to be kinder to one another, to take care of loved ones in direct & active ways, and to help people who are suffering without the need for intermediation.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

DELIGHTED to announce Andrew Harvey, founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism, mystic, scholar, Rumi translator, and author of many spiritual books including co-authoring the “Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” WILL BE JOINING US for our kickoff gathering for Alchemising Activism. Yes, JOIN US!

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

ICYMI… I made a huge announcement today! And right after I posted it, I got even bigger news about it that will be an EVEN BIGGER announcement we will make soon. For now, soak in the info, ask me anything, and know that there’s a really cool surprise to come shortly!!!

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT... This offering which has been brewing between myself and my beloved colleague Phoebe O'Regan for many moons... ❤️‍🔥 If you are feeling the call to join us comment “activism” and I will send you over the booking details. If you have any questions at all please let me know 🌿

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

WATCH THIS SPACE. Tomorrow, a beloved colleague and I are announcing a very special partnership in creating a sacred activism community JUST FOR YOU, in response to this moment we are living through together. I AM SO EXCITED.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This month’s theme is “RECOVERING A SENSE OF POWER,” a worthy and important topic for the moment in history in which we find ourselves. Join us in creative community to take part!

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Small acts of kindness and resistance matter. Every conversation, every moment of care and every refusal to give in adds up. You don’t have to do everything. Just do something.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I hold a Monthly #TheArtistsWay Gathering online. The March gathering is 1 week from today! Would love for you to join us, no matter where you are along your TAW journey. Best part? PAY WHAT YOU CAN-- your ticket purchase admits you into all our gatherings in 2025! www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-artist...

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The Artist's Way Monthly Gathering

A monthly gathering for participants in Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way to share your experiences, challenges, and celebrations

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“HOPE” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 28 Hope is brave, radical, & dangerous. Hope is necessary and appropriate. Hope will lead us to despair If we confuse it with expectation. If we remain open and patient, Hope will reward us with miracles. It always does. Thank you for joining me for #monthofministry!

A bouquet of lavender, pink and red & gold tulips is arranged in a handmade vase with a clouds & rainbows motif. The vase sits on a wooden table in an old cottage kitchen with a bright yellow ceiling. Springtime sunlight beams through the glass doors in the background. A tall, blurry pine tree peers inside to view the scene.

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Interfaith America @interfaithamerica.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

With #Ramadan set to begin at the end of the week for billions of Muslims around the world, it's time to test your knowledge of the holy month of fasting, introspection, and prayer. Test your knowledge and let us know what you learned in the comments! www.interfaithamerica.org/resources/ra...

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How much do you know about Ramadan?

Billions of Muslims around the world observe Ramadan every year. Test your knowledge about the holy month with this interactive quiz!

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“MAGIC” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 27 Creativity is magic. Our Creator gave us all the gift to create. How is this not magic? Why do we so often take this gift for granted? ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“LISTENING” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 26 There’s no point in being a healer, in being clergy, or in offering spiritual guidance, if I didn’t know how to listen. Deep listening is the primary healing method I utilize, offering minimal feedback and no advice… ➕

Rev April smiles quietly beside a window in a sunny cafe along a canal in Amsterdam.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“OPENNESS” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 25 The most powerful antidote to despair is openness. My favorite flavors of openness are: 💫 suspense of judgment 💫 willingness to be incorrect 💫 expectation of miracles They’re rare, but the good news is they can be cultivated with effort. #monthofministry

A small, faded old handmade sign that reads “WARNING! DO NOT ENTER” is slowly being swallowed into the center of a tree trunk in North Omaha, Nebraska.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

“PRACTICE” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 24 Just like nature, I commit myself to the practice of radical imperfection. It forces me to favor action over inaction, while also encouraging me to take accountability… ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

“ACCEPTANCE” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 23 A big might-have-been in my life haunted me for decades. I ruminated over it constantly, at times obsessively. I confronted it through healing modalities. I eventually tried to reconnect to it and claim it, only to relive my loss once again. And then?… ➕

Rev April wears a pair of dark sunglasses, a ballcap, a pair of noise canceling headphones, and a white daisy behind her ear as she smiles broadly, brandishing her teeth, while posing playfully in her front garden.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“WISDOM” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 22 To paraphrase Michael Meade, we don’t have too many knowledge gaps in society. What we have too many of, and too wide, are wisdom gaps. Where I see this most acutely is with current affairs… ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“WAR” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 21 We humans will do almost anything to avoid the intimacy of the sacred. We would rather isolate, divide, distract, fret, starve, condemn, and destroy ourselves or anyone else… ➕

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Hermien Vos @hermienvos.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We are more than this, and we can do better than this. We talk of dreamers as if they’re fools not rooted in reality. What if we’re in this mess because we stopped dreaming dreams worth dreaming. What if we allowed ourselves to be idealists again, dreamers of new and better realities for everyone

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Notice how they are saying to “SIT DOWN with” your loved ones “right now.” Be in space with people and start talking about how we are going to meet our own needs, the needs our leaders are failing to serve. It IS about survival, and it’s NOT too late.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I want to talk about how much more vulnerable it feels to talk about our lives instead of current events.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Imagine creating #BlueSky to compete with the big guys because they’ve gotten so far away from the original intention of connecting people… …only to show us every pundit, every media outlet, every brand in our feed instead of our loved ones and friends unless we take extra steps. #makeitmakesense

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“MYSTERY” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 20 To be seekers of the mystery is to make peace with the possibility we might never have the answers. To be a mystic is to be moved by the deepening of a mystery every time we ask ourselves those questions… ➕

A house situated in a Kerala rainforest has a mural painted on its weathered walls of a yogi’s silhouette.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My latest vow #art piece, a gift for a beloved mentor and teacher who’s a repeat customer, commissioning several pieces of my work to her colleagues and loved ones as gifts. She also helped me get into grad school. I love her so much and this is merely a small token of my love and gratitude for her.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“CEREMONY” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 19 Creating, writing, and performing ceremonies is my favorite part of being an interfaith pastor— placing intense focus on the present moment, maximizing the intimacy among all participants… ➕

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#MonthofMinistry Days 17-18 LIGHT & DARKNESS I’m troubled by the identification of “light” with what is good, and “darkness” with wickedness and death. Don’t we need both dark and light? Is it time to begin reclaiming darkness? chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/mom17-18/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZ9...

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Light and Darkness - Chris Booth Ceremonies

#MonthOfMinistry Days 17 and 18 In Quaker circles we talk a lot about the “Light”. It’s one of the commonest words we use to point at the sense (beyond all words) of good and loving kindness within ea...

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“DARKNESS” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 18 If we are committed to healing our ancestral line all the way back, we eventually meet the caress of our Dark Mother, whose cosmic womb embraces us until we emerge into existence, whose arms await us when we take our final rest… ➕

a view from the top of the dark stairwell at Junkerhaus in Lemgo, Germany, overlooking a small window letting in gentle rays of late summer sunlight

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“LIGHT” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 17 Dimming my light was always a far more available option. I am choosing instead to shine my light as brightly as I can, just in case someone else can use it to light their path, too. #monthofministry

The moon glows at the center of its bright halo, joined by several planets and stars in the night sky.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“REVERENCE” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 16 My title is Reverend. My entire occupation is centered around reverence. Reverence for my loved ones, Reverence for nature, Reverence for the Great Mysteries, Reverence for you, my fellow human, And reverence for…

Rev April rests amongst a pile of colorful pillows while a calico cat rests her head on April’s chest.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“GOD” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 15 A god is an entity we project ourselves upon who we feel has power over us, our ego taking shape in our imagination as our ultimate authority, imposing judgment… ➕

Rev April’s shadow falls in the foreground of an expansive image of the sky, alight with the prismatic colors of the aurora borealis over a rural Nebraskan field.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“INTENTION” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 14 To set an intention is to place consciousness onto the journey within the present moment, usually at the beginning. To have an intention is to honor a commitment to what may be an outcome… ➕

Rev April paints a yellow petal of a large multicolored daisy onto a wall as she completes a mural.

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Today I had two very important meetings: 1) to assemble a training program around Andrew Harvey’s “Sacred Activism” concept 2) to gather a think tank around the possibilities for reimagining refugee resettlement and homelessness in Ireland ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“PATH” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 13 There is a path. Heart, you are lost, But there’s a path From the lover to the soul, Secret, but visible. Worlds blaze round you - Don’t shrink: The path’s secret, But yours. -Rumi #monthofministry

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“PEACE” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 12 My master’s degree in International Peace Studies is almost complete. The most difficult lesson of all has been that most people don’t understand anything about peace and don’t really care to learn. Another hard lesson is that… ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“SURRENDER” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 11 The term “amor fati” means to fall in love with your fate. The more I surrender to what-is, the more I soften into my fate and breathe the air of the present moment, rather than hold the past in my lungs or anticipate the winds of the future… ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“CHURCH” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 10 Church is wherever we go with the purpose to meet God there, face to face. It is the seed bed of our hopes and wishes. It is the receptacle of our bitterest tears… ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“PRESENCE” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 9 Our ability to remain focused on the present moment, completely engaged with what-is, not at all nostalgic for the past nor anxious for the future, has never been a greater challenge… ➕

Rev April holds her small white terrier in her lap as she sits at her kitchen table in a pre-famine Irish cottage. She gazes down lovingly at her elderly dog, and the dog gazes lovingly back at her. It is a tender moment.

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Hermien Vos @hermienvos.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Which vision for a better future will propel you into action? I dream of clean air & water, fair pay, poison-free nutritious food, affordable education & housing, thriving communities, a healthy planet and an optimistic future FOR EVERYONE What’s your dream? What one small thing can YOU do today?

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“FAITH” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 8 I have reached a point in my faith where I have intense certainty that everything changes and miracles happen. I have suffered. I will suffer again. People I love suffer. Many people suffer. We all suffer… ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“EVOLVING” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 7 To be a creative is to evolve. I’ve been a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I’m always changing. To evolve is to be alive. Evolution is inevitable. The process of adaptation to “what-is” is the essence of spirituality. #monthofministry

Myself, singing in a cabaret quartet when I was about 26 years old

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“LOVE” MONTH OF MINISTRY, DAY 6 As a noun? Love is everything, and all there is. As a verb…? ➕

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We’re getting the gang back together again for special one-off episode this Sunday. Together we will explore the power of the subconscious here among old friends— at a time when panic and overwhelm are at an all time high… www.youtube.com/live/7eLQNW6... ➕

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"CRISIS: A Special Episode for Our Community" 9th February 2025

YouTube video by Subconscious Sundays

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Rev April Kling @revaprilkling.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

None of that existential dread means fuxk all if you aren’t: a) directly helping people who are affected b) letting people know you are affected so you can get help Please.

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