Christina Bergmann - Und meine Seele lächelt

2011, Christina Bergmann, German,

Original title: "Und meine Seele lächelt: Transsexualität und Spiritualität – Mein Weg zu einem authentischen Selbst" (And my soul smiles: transsexuality and spirituality - my way to an authentic self)

'"Oh God! Pastor becomes woman! "– This was the headline under which a major tabloid newspaper reported on the transsexual path of Pastor Christoph Bergmann.

But by then the most difficult part of the road had already been taken and the decision to stand by one's own truth had already been made... But how hard was it to get to this point!??

In the preface, the author writes: ' I would like to tell you about my experiences, about my journey from man to woman, which I walked under God's face. It is much more and much deeper than just the transsexual path, although that alone turns the whole life upside down. Above all, however, it is a spiritual path, a path of encounter with God and incarnation. A pilgrimage to the heart.''

'Christina Bergmann is a pastor and spiritualist. She was born male in 1962. She – at that time he was still him – studied Protestant theology in Bochum and Bonn and worked as a parish priest in various parishes in Westphalia. In 2008 she faced her transsexuality and made the transition from man to woman.

As a border crosser between the sexes, but also between church religion and mysticism, fullness and emptiness, inside and outside, she trod a path of physical and spiritual transformation. Christina Bergmann has been married since 1996 (and still is) and has two daughters. She works as a pastor in Sauerland.'

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