This is rather more what I expected Longing for Running Water to be like, albeit in retrospect. The mix of feminism, religion, and environmentalism is still one that’s largely alien to me, as my own lack of religion means that large swathes of the experiences described here are unfamiliar – but that’s fine, the reason I read books like this is to learn things. And credit where it’s due, this collection has brought together a wide range of approaches from a variety of different women and different religions. The effect is one of commonality across borders, as it were, as the need for sustainable living and respect for nonhuman life is prioritized in reaction to a world where that prioritization is not always evident. Most of the essays were interesting and accessible; I think the one that made the biggest impression was the one on sexual imagery as it relates to the atom bomb, which was not a topic I expected to find here, and which was bizarrely compelling.