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• A FEMINIST TAOIST VOICE PART 1: MY DIALOGUE WITH ELISA FON, ACUPUNCTURIST, TAOIST, FEMINIST AND FRIEND by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on February 29, 2012 • ( 16 )

  “So it all kind of depends… even in men compared to men, and women compared to women, you would have to have a counterpart to judge something as yin or yang—you are never statically just yin or just yang…” Elisa… Read More ›

• Where do Cats Go?: Reflections on Death Post Patriarchal Christianity by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on January 24, 2012 • ( 21 )

  The reason I am speaking about death today is two-fold.  First, I have been somewhat preoccupied with the concept of death since entering a new decade of my life.  I no longer believe in the evangelical vision of heaven I… Read More ›

• CELEBRATING THE BEGINNING OF THE AQUARIAN AGE by Sara Frykenberg, Ph.D.

  By Sara Frykenberg on December 27, 2011 • ( 6 )

  Looking back, it’s interesting to think of myself as a young woman learning in a time of transition from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age.  According to Yogi Bhajan, the man known for brining Kundalini Yoga to the West,… Read More ›

• ADI SHAKTI! : A MEDITATION ON A MANTRA BY Sara Frykenberg, Ph.D.

  By Sara Frykenberg on November 29, 2011 • ( 6 )

  Aaadee shaktee, namo, namo: I bow to the primal power (which is female and divine). My Kundalini yoga teacher training required that each student complete a 30 minute daily meditation for forty days straight at some point during our course. … Read More ›

• On being an imperfect feminist: releasing definitions built in shame By Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on November 1, 2011 • ( 7 )

  A few weeks ago, a very interesting and in some places, tense discussion arose from John Erickson’s post, “Hands Off,” some of which related to the difference between what it means to be a liberal feminist and what it means… Read More ›

• Taking my body back from… the pill? A call for more of “her stories” about contraception By Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on October 4, 2011 • ( 16 )

  I recently made what felt like a very big decision in my life to stop taking the birth control pill… not to try to get pregnant mind you, though some of those I told incorrectly read this as the subtext… Read More ›

• A Meditation on a Mantra: Sat-Nam By Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on September 6, 2011 • ( 4 )

  The following is a guest post written by Sara Frykenberg, Ph.D., graduate of the women studies in religion program at Claremont Graduate University.  Her research considers the way in which process feminist theo/alogies reveal a kind transitory violence present in the liminal space between abusive paradigms and… Read More ›

• In my defense against an abusive God… what I forget and what I am learning By Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on August 23, 2011 • ( 7 )

  I spent a great deal of my life believing that the smaller and smaller I made myself, the bigger God would be in my life and the more power He (sic) would have to do the good things He had planned.  If I could just… Read More ›

• What about “the final frontier?” Saying goodbye to the Space Shuttle Program By Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on August 1, 2011 • ( 1 )

  The following is a guest post written by Sara Frykenberg, Ph.D., independent scholar and graduate of the Women Studies in Religion program at Claremont Graduate University. “It all started when they messed with Pluto,” my husband joked to me as… Read More ›

• Why (I) Work? The Difference Between A House Wife and Being Unemployed By Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on July 16, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  The following is a guest post written by Sara Frykenberg, Ph.D., independent scholar and graduate of theWomen Studies in Religion program at Claremont Graduate University. Ever since I graduated I have been keenly aware of the fact that am no longer a… Read More ›