Spirituality & Faith
"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness." - Dalai Lama
"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness." - Dalai Lama
Minister of Arts and Wellbeing
Rev. Kristine N. Leslie is a storyteller, creative capacity builder, and ordained celebrant in the Ministry of Art and Wellbeing. Her spiritual philosophy centers on four overlapping pillars: Artist/Creatrix, Muse, Art/Work, and Audience, which form a multidimensional framework for understanding Truth and embodying the Great I AM.
In this approach, Truth is not a fixed concept but a dynamic, living force that creates, inspires, manifests, and witnesses itself through infinite expressions. Kristine’s perspective blends elements of universalism, pluralism, womanist theology, and social dramaturgy, seeing spirituality as both a continuous performance and a state of being. She embodies each role—Artist/Creatrix, Muse, Art/Work, and Audience—as both an individual and a reflection of the collective consciousness.
Her doctrine, infused with themes of emergent theory and collective embodiment, views spirituality as a structured expression of infinite potential. It is a philosophy that emphasizes unity within diversity, balancing the universal with the individual. Through her ministry, Rev. Kristine explores the fluidity of identity and purpose, ultimately embodying the principle that we are both witnesses to and participants in the performance art of existence/existing.
At the heart of her practice is the idea of the Great I AM, representing a non-binary, all-encompassing presence that transcends labels yet is felt in every creative act and every lived moment.
The whole of her theosophy, however, also includes a personal mythology which is a blend of mysticism, feminist cosmology, queer spirituality, afrofuturist metaphysics, and fractal/multiversal consciousness, through which she interprets reality and the divine (e.g. God as a Black Woman, erotic energy:creative energy:universal life force energy).
Commitment Ceremonies
Naming Ceremonies
Collaring Ceremonies
Reiki Circles for Women's Health
PCOS Awareness Advocate
Photo credit: Mark Harris Photography
Celebrants act as facilitators, guides, and officiants, ensuring life's important moments are marked with significance and personalized touches. They can be a great fit for individuals, couples, or multipartnerships seeking a non-religious ceremony that reflects their own values and beliefs. The examples offered above aren't meant as a rigid list, but rather as a springboard for imagining the possibilities of interpersonal alchemy and collective awakening for you and the people you care about.