Rachel Mann

Rachel Mann is an Anglican priest and the author of the spiritual memoir Dazzling Darkness. Her new book is Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory and God.

Did the Great War leave God “hanging on the old barbed wire”?

The patriarchal deity died in the trenches of the Somme, but the churches will not let him go.

By Rachel Mann

/ 16 Jul 2017

I'm a woman, but I'm glad I used to be a man

I was the kind of trans* person who, upon coming out, sought to destroy all references to my male social and legal identity in the most ruthless manner. Part of Transformation's liberation series.

By Rachel Mann

/ 9 Jun 2014