What I Believe (Post 2016) by John Erickson
Ever since the election of You-Know-Who, I have been doing a lot of creative writing.
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Traveling Sexism by Anjeanette LeBoeuf
This summer I traveled quite a lot domestically. While I was in airports, on trains, waiting in lines, and going about my summer I kept coming across certain patterns and experiences which were becoming all too common and too significant… Read More ›
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Call for Contributions: She Rises Volume 3 Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality
She Rises Goddess Feminist Activism Collective Writing Project: Call for Contributions She Rises: What … Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 3 Two books: The main book and a sectional booklet including poetry, prose, art, the like. Coeditors include Deanne… Read More ›
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Hillary Clinton, What Happened and What Happens Now? by Marie Cartier
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the… Read More ›
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Who Does Islamic(s) Feminism(s) Belong To? by Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente
Who does Islamic(s) feminism(s) belong to? The answer to this question seems obvious: Islamic feminism belongs to all Muslim women who wish to adhere to it, and feminism is for everybody, as bell hooks said. In reality however, it is not… Read More ›
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Discerning is the Journey by Katie M. Deaver
This past weekend I had the privilege of officiating for the wedding of a dear friend. Despite having undertaken all of my graduate and doctoral degrees at a seminary, I had not seriously considered ordination since the beginning of my… Read More ›
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Introducing the Kindreds Podcast by Katey Zeh
What do we mean when we call girls “bossy”? How do we deconstruct the myth that women can’t get along? What are the real costs of emotional labor? Kindreds is a podcast for souls sisters. In each episode my co-host… Read More ›
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Learning Gratitude for the Gifts of Life on the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete by Carol P. Christ
In Crete we are always being given gifts—fresh cherries, ice cold bottles of raki, yogurt swimming in honey, and so much more. Over the years it finally hit me that this spirit of great generosity is a living remnant of… Read More ›
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Consideration by Valentina Khan
Yesterday I sat in my car, buckled and ready to reverse just when I looked out my side window to see the people getting into their car next to mine. There was a very elderly lady being seated in the… Read More ›
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Householders’ Superstitions and the Higher Truth by Oxana Poberejnaia
I watched this short video on facebook about Sisa, an Egyptian woman who spent forty years a man in order provide for her family. There is a longer version on YouTube. Sisa, a widow, decided to work to feed her… Read More ›
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The Authentic Self? No-Self LaChelle Schilling
When I was in high school, I remember being preoccupied with being my “authentic” self. I am quite sure I had little idea of what that meant because I think it was akin to knowing the content of my ego,… Read More ›
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The Spirit and Jarena Lee: Inspiration to Break Boundaries by Elise M. Edwards
I am so frustrated that we are still fighting to affirm women’s place in leadership. I’ve been thinking about this struggle in the context of church ministries (especially preaching) and social activism, seeing a stark contrast between the way institutional… Read More ›
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The Medieval Beguines: Models for Spiritual Agency Today by Cynthia Garrity Bond
In a recent article from U.S. Catholic, Common Law lawyer Karen Gargamelli and her newly founded lay community Benincasa are profiled. Established in New York’s Upper West Side, Benincasa, is named and patterned after 14th century mystic and theologian, Catherine… Read More ›
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Announcing the 2017 Rosemary Radford Ruether Conference by Grace Yia-Hei Kao
On October 7, 2017, five distinguished panelists will speak at a one-day event: the Rosemary Radford Ruether Conference for Justice and Peace. Co-sponsored by the Friends of Sabeel—North America (FOSNA), Claremont Area FOSNA, Claremont School of Theology, and the Women’s… Read More ›
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Cleaning and Cleansing: Rituals of Embodied Life by Carol P. Christ
While the world is falling apart all around me, I have been slowly engaged in a major cleaning and cleansing of my home. It started when I began to move my summer clothes to my main closet in June. Here… Read More ›
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The Internet and the Divine? by Ivy Helman
When my dad was in town for the wedding, he asked me a question about Prague. I didn’t know the answer. So, I said, “let me look on my all-knowing phone.” I googled the question, found a reliable website and… Read More ›
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Bridging Beyond Binaries: Painting Gloria Anzaldúa by Angela Yarber
One of the great joys of being an artist and writer is working on commissions, enlivening in paint, canvas, and word the stories of revolutionary holy women who have emboldened and inspired the one commissioning the Holy Woman Icon. Gloria… Read More ›
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Every Moon Is Different by Kate Brunner
When my doula clients would share with me that the pregnancy they were going through was not like the previous one, I often gently reminded them that they weren’t the same women anymore. Their bodies were starting from a different… Read More ›
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Book Review: FLORENCE IN ECSTASY by Jessie Chaffee
Jessie Chaffee‘s Florence in Ecstasy is the most luminous debut novel I have read in a very long time. Imagine, if you will, a darker and more literary version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s popular spiritual seeker’s memoir, Eat Pray Love. This… Read More ›
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Gaining Perspective by Natalie Weaver
I don’t know if I could be a deep-sea welder. I don’t know what the risks of lethal electrocution, broken limbs, or the bends would be. I suspect it can be a dangerous occupation, like operating heavy equipment on good… Read More ›
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Shame and the Caregiving Relationship by Stephanie Arel
I was asked recently to present my work on shame and guilt for a documentary about the experience of being in a caregiving relationship. Initially, I felt concerned. My conceptualization of the idea of caregiving circulated around 1) aspects of… Read More ›
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SHEELA-NA-GIG by Carol P. Christ
On a trip to Ireland several years ago, I was fortunate to have been able to see the Sheela-na-gigs in the National Museum of Dublin. Two of these Sheelas including the one removed from the Seir Kieran Church of County… Read More ›
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Are These Three Novels Prophetic? Part 2: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy by Barbara Ardinger
Members of this community (and others) have been feeling that the world is out of balance since the 2016 election. There’s a feeling that people are becoming less kind and that some men (following the model that lives and tweets… Read More ›
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Fostering Conversation and Connection in Community by Katie M. Deaver
I recently began a new job as the Associate Director of Admissions for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, one of the seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This week was orientation for our new and returning… Read More ›
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Embodying Gaia by Christy Sim
Rosemary Radford Ruether wrote a classic text: “Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing.” Ever since I laid eyes on this amazing book and was convinced of the genius Ruether offered within these pages, I adored images of… Read More ›
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Musings On My Recent Road Trip by Esther Nelson
I love a road trip. It’s exciting to get behind the wheel of a car, get out on the highway (or bi-way), and just go. The road seems to stretch out forever in front of me, full of possibilities, adventure,… Read More ›
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Mary Daly: Can I Love the Luddite and Deplore the Transphobe? by Dirk von der Horst
Mary Daly was one of the most prescient voices of her time with regard to environmental disaster. Daly was also an explicitly transphobic thinker. These two facts are deeply related. What links these two directions in her thought is a… Read More ›
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Notes from A Goddess Pilgrimage by Joyce Zonana
The solar eclipse has had me sensing deep alignment with earth, sea, and sky, with my sisters and brothers and Self. This, then, from my 1995 journal of my first Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete with Carol Christ, a trip still… Read More ›
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Honey: A Thousand Flowers by Mary Beth Moser
Today I am finishing the last bit of the honey I hand-carried home from my most recent trip to Trentino. Sun yellow in color, it is made from the nectar of mountain flowers. Its label tells its origin—di montagna, of… Read More ›
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Missing a Teachable Moment: The Purple Dress by Marilyn R. Freedman
Intelligent and impish eyes took in my approach, and the little girl moved away from the post office doors. But not before I saw her sweet face with round cheeks still full of baby fat squished against the glass. With slightly messy, curly… Read More ›
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What I Believe (Post 2016) by John Erickson
September 25, 2017
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Traveling Sexism by Anjeanette LeBoeuf
September 24, 2017
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Who Does Islamic(s) Feminism(s) Belong To? by Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente
September 21, 2017
Feminism ›
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Call for Contributions: She Rises Volume 3 Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality
September 23, 2017
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Hillary Clinton, What Happened and What Happens Now? by Marie Cartier
September 22, 2017
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Discerning is the Journey by Katie M. Deaver
September 20, 2017
Activism ›
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Introducing the Kindreds Podcast by Katey Zeh
September 19, 2017
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The Spirit and Jarena Lee: Inspiration to Break Boundaries by Elise M. Edwards
September 14, 2017
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Musings On My Recent Road Trip by Esther Nelson
August 31, 2017
