Who we are
Two people, one long conversation about meaning
André and Mary-Anne have been doing this together for over thirty-five years.
They started with nothing by most conventional measures — no income, no home, no certainty — and discovered that this was, in a strange way, exactly the right starting point for the work they were being called to do. They spent years living out of suitcases, traveling across twenty countries, teaching in living rooms and lecture halls and retreat centers, and slowly building something that could not have been planned: a body of work, a community of people, and a way of being together that made ministry and life the same thing. Along the way, they found friends who believed in them, their message, and their mission. These friendships are the ultimate reward – co-creators of a more beautiful world.
That last part matters. André and Mary-Anne have never been interested in the model where one person preaches and the other supports. They go together, or not at all. Alwayloved and TheDepth reflects that — it is not a platform with a figurehead. It is the fruit of people who have been genuinely thinking, questioning, and living these ideas for decades, and who believe the most important conversations of our time are not happening in institutions alone. They are happening between people who have outgrown easy answers and are looking for something that can hold the weight of real life.
They are available to speak at retreats, conferences, university chaplaincies, and private gatherings. Contact them at andre@alwaysloved.net.
Andre Rabe
André Rabe has spent his life doing something most people consider impractical: trusting that the deepest things are also the most real.
He was nineteen when he met Mary-Anne — she was leading a group of young people on a mission trip across South Africa with no financial backers, no itinerary, and no certainty of where they would sleep each night. They found what they needed, day by day. A few months later, two unemployed teenagers got married. Most people thought it made no sense. It made complete sense to them.
That quality — a willingness to live from a source deeper than what is visible — has marked everything André has done since. It is also, not coincidentally, what his theology is about.
His academic work sits at the intersection of mimetic theory, process philosophy, open and relational theology, and the anthropology of religion. He holds a doctorate in theology and is the author of several books, most recently Mimetic Reality — described by theologian Anthony Bartlett as “a profound, moving, lucid synthesis” and “a theological breakthrough” in bringing together René Girard and Alfred Whitehead. He has taught at the graduate level, contributed to academic volumes, and worked in sustained conversation with some of the most significant thinkers in his field. You can listen to some of these conversations with Thomas Oord, Philip Clayton, John Haught, Andrew Davis.
But the thread that runs through all of it — the academic work, the thirty years of teaching across twenty countries, the courses through Mimesis Academy, and now TheDepth — is the same question he has been sitting with since those early days on the road: what does it mean to live inside something true, rather than merely believing it?
He does not teach to give answers. He teaches to open better questions — and to make space for what is already trying to emerge.
“No-one starts with a blank canvas. We find ourselves thrust into a matrix of narratives — yet something truly new is possible amid the chaos.”
Mary-Anne Rabe
Mary-Anne Rabe was leading a mission trip across South Africa at eighteen with no budget, no fixed itinerary, and a group of fifteen young people who believed that a real relationship with God was worth sharing with anyone who would listen. They needed vehicles, fuel, somewhere to sleep each night — and somehow, day by day, those things appeared. She wrote this song during that season. It still captures something essential about the way she moves through the world.
Forty years later, that quality — a deep, unforced trust in what is given — is woven into everything she does.
Mary-Anne founded Creative Wisdom School and has spent decades helping people understand how the stories they were handed — by family, by religion, by culture — have shaped the way they see themselves and the world. Not to explain those stories away. To bring them into the light, where they can be examined, held, and, where necessary, rewritten.
Part of her toolset is the Enneagram — not as a personality test, but as a map of the deeper patterns that drive human behavior. She works with individuals in significant transition: people navigating religious change, therapists and coaches seeking a deeper framework for their practice, anyone in the middle of something that has no name yet but feels important.
She is also a musician. Her recordings — available at maryannerabe.com — carry the same quality as her teaching: they do not rush. They make space. They trust that something is already trying to emerge in the listener, and they create the conditions for it to do so.
What Mary-Anne holds in TheDepth.community is irreplaceable precisely because it is the dimension that pure theology often misses: the personal, the embodied, the felt. The question is never only what is true — it is what it costs, and what it feels like, to actually live there.
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