“Great Faith, Great Doubt, Great Determination”
with Rev. Dr. Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Maggie Ingalls, and Brian Shaw
In Zen Buddhism, great faith, great doubt, and great determination are the engines of spiritual growth. We need faith in the possibility that we can experience spiritual freedom, even in the midst of our human struggles. We need doubt, too: the intellectual and spiritual humility to push beyond complacency and false certainty, to maintain a spirit of curiosity and openness to what we do not currently know. We need determination to persist in seeking spiritual growth in the moments when we can’t see how to move forward. When we cultivate great faith and great doubt with great determination, the divine mystery reveals itself, often in ways we don’t expect and can’t predict, but that can transform us.
Rev. Dr. Wakoh Shannon Hickey is a Board-Certified chaplain, a Candidate for UU ministry, and a priest of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, which she has practiced for more than 40 years. Wakoh grew up in the Napa Valley. After attending college at UC Berkeley, she worked as a newspaper reporter and helped to found NLGJA, The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. She earned an MA/MDiv at Pacific School of Religion and a PhD at Duke University, where she specialized in North American religious history, Buddhism in Asia and the West, religion and medicine, and interfaith engagement. During her second career as a scholar and professor of religious studies, she also served as a Buddhist chaplain at Duke and Johns Hopkins universities. After returning to Napa in 2018, she joined the local Interfaith Leaders Council and has worked as an interfaith chaplain in hospice and other medical settings. She authored Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2019) and is a certified Leader of InterPlay®, a group creative practice grounded in improvisational movement, story, stillness, and song.
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