I mentioned in a recent post that I would share a little more about my current research, as one of the aspects of my life I gained more clarity in during my recent process of regrounding was in the area… Read More ›
Mary Daly
Reflections on Trauma, Part I: Pink Pussyhats by Stephanie N. Arel
I have been thinking frequently about trauma, about what perpetuates suffering and what supports the arduous journey of transforming traumatic experiences, especially in the aftermath of traumas of human design. The violation of bodies lies at the heart of such… Read More ›
From Mary Daly to the Emerging Church – An Unlikely Dissertation Trajectory by Xochitl Alvizo
It was 2004 during the first semester in one of my classes for the master’s program when my TA presented a lecture on feminist critiques of atonement and introduced me to the writings of Mary Daly. It was my first… Read More ›
University of Oklahoma and Female Complicity in Patriarchy by Cynthia Garrity-Bond
By now most, if not all, readers of FAR have read or watched the disturbing YouTube video of University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Fraternity sing their racist chant. The two male SAE members who led the “song” were… Read More ›
Give Me That “New” Time Religion! by Susan Gifford
I want a new religion. I have changed to the point that I cannot be a part of a patriarchal religion and I feel that all of the major organized religions fall into that category. It has taken me a… Read More ›
Writing: Changing the World and Ourselves. By Ivy Helman
I still remember the first time I read Mary Daly’s Gyn/Ecology. It awoke something within me. Her use of language, the power of her writing and the ease with which she created new words taught me so much about the… Read More ›
The Mosaic Language of God by Andreea Nica
Throughout my “bible-thumping, smitten with God” years, I scribbled countless thoughts and prayers in four devotional journals. Recently I came across these journals, wiping away the years of dust accumulated. As I have been detaching from the Pentecostal god, it… Read More ›
Transforming the Church from Within or Without? by Xochitl Alvizo
“Power belongs to those who stay to write the report!” stated Jeanne Audrey Powers during her presentation at the Religion and the Feminist Movement conference at Harvard Divinity School back in 2002. Though the statement sounds a little funny, it does raise a good… Read More ›
On Reading, Not Reading, and Disagreeing by Linn Marie Tonstad
The theology blogosphere in all its glory has been alive in recent days with furor sparked by a blog post from Janice Rees at Women In Theology, where she discusses not reading Karl Barth, the heavyweight German 20th-century Protestant theologian,… Read More ›
The Hot Seat by John Erickson
Being a man in feminism isn’t easy and that’s how it is supposed to be.
Feminism and My Existentialist Leanings by Xochitl Alvizo
In light of so much destruction in our world – from the violence inside individual homes to beyond and between national borders – how is it still possible to hope for and to live toward a vision of beauty and… Read More ›
Re-membering the Revolution by Xochitl Alvizo
This post includes information about a conference scheduled for next spring at Boston University: A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Call for Papers is due July 1st – just two days away! I remember how Mary Daly… Read More ›
When Feminists Disagree by Linn Marie Tonstad
A while back I gave a talk on feminist trinitarian theology to an audience of mostly progressive academics, including feminist and womanist scholars of religion. In the course of analyzing what I called the ‘trinitarian imaginary’ in Christianity and its… Read More ›
The Wit of the Labrys by Xochitl Alvizo
Sometimes I wish I were wittier. Or more precisely, there are moments when I become acutely aware of my underdeveloped wit – and I long to know how to sharpen it! I have some pretty witty people in my life… Read More ›
The Mago Hedge School: Why Remember Mary Daly? By Helen Hye Sook Hwang
Prologue By writing this, I do not intend to defend Mary Daly’s position in any dispute. A controversial figure, Mary Daly never let go of her fight with those whom she thought on the other side of her feminist war…. Read More ›
Process Thought: Feminist Friendly Metaphysics by Xochitl Alvizo
To be is necessarily to be in process and engagement with the lure of creative advance (that is, with God). In this sense, God is the poet of the world continually luring the world toward its full be-coming. “It all goes back to one’s… Read More ›
Imaging God by Tiffany Steinwert
There are some words a mother never wants to hear. For me, those words came one evening as I tucked my 3 year old son, G, in to bed. We had just finished reading God’s Dream, a children’s book by… Read More ›
A Cross-Cultural Feminist Alchemy: Studying Mago, Pan-East Asian Great Goddess, Using Mary Daly’s Radical Feminism as Springboard by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Feminist theology was self-transcending to me. I was unafraid of going beyond the boundary of Christianity and its God. Mago is the Great Goddess of East Asia and in particular Korea. Reconstructing Magoism, the cultural and historical context of East… Read More ›
Painting Mary Daly By Angela Yarber
You don’t have to be perfect to be a saint. The saints who comprise my Holy Women Icons are far from perfect, but each one has made a difference in the lives of countless women. By giving iconography a folk… Read More ›
Conversation on Leadership Continues…By Xochitl Alvizo
In a recent post on leadership I proposed that facilitating open dialogue is a central aspect of leadership. That if we are to move into new horizons – that is, feminist horizons of mutual communal empowerment and liberation – we… Read More ›
KARAI KASANG: Rebirthing the Non-Patriarchal Image of God in Kachin Culture by Zau Sam
This post is written in conjunction with the Feminist Ethics Course Dialogue project sponsored by Claremont School of Theology in the Claremont Lincoln University Consortium, Claremont Graduate University, and directed by Grace Yia-Hei Kao. Zau Sam is a first year MA student in Feminist Studies with interests… Read More ›
Sister Wives, The Terrible Taboo, and Agency by Xochitl Alvizo
A couple of weeks ago I watched a handful of Sister Wives episodes; it was the start of the new season and the network was having a marathon. I was absolutely fascinated. It was my first time watching the show,… Read More ›
Room at the Table: The “Problem” of Men By Lara Helfer
This post is written in conjunction with the Feminist Ethics Course Dialogue project sponsored by Claremont School of Theology in the Claremont Lincoln University Consortium, Claremont Graduate University, and directed by Grace Yia-Hei Kao. Lara Helfer is a 3rd year MDiv Student at Claremont School of Theology…. Read More ›
What Does It Mean to Say that All White Feminists Are Racist? (Questions Posed to White Women/Myself about Our Part in the Dialogue with Women of Color) By Carol P. Christ
Carol P. Christ, a founding mother in the study of Women and Religion and Feminist Theo/a/logy, has been active in anti-racist, anti-poverty, anti-war, feminist, pro-gay and lesbian, anti-nuclear, and environmental causes (in that order) for many years. All of these… Read More ›
Mary Daly’s Letter to Audre Lorde
In May of 1979, Audre Lorde shared her critique of Gyn/Ecology with Mary Daly via a letter. Lorde claimed she had received no response from Daly and subsequently published her assessment of Daly’s work as an open letter, first in… Read More ›
The Misbegotten Male: Male Sex-Selection & Female Abortion By Cynthia Garrity Bond
I turned away and, despite myself, the tears came, tears Of weakness and disappointment; for what woman wants a girl for her first-born? They took the child from me. Kali said: “Never mind. There will be many later On. You have plenty of time” Kamala… Read More ›
Hands Off By John Erickson
This post is written in conjunction with the Feminist Ethics Course Dialogue project sponsored by Claremont School of Theology in the Claremont Lincoln University Consortium, Claremont Graduate University, and directed by Grace Yia-Hei Kao. John Erickson is a doctoral student in Women’s Studies in Religion at Claremont Graduate University. His… Read More ›
Mary Daly: My Springboard Into Critical Feminist Thought By Katie Driscoll
This post is written in conjunction with the Feminist Ethics Course Dialogue project sponsored by Claremont School of Theology in the Claremont Lincoln University Consortium, Claremont Graduate University, and directed by Grace Yia-Hei Kao. Katie Driscoll is pursuing an MA in the Applied Women’s Studies Program at… Read More ›
Using the Bible to Promote and Impose Terror on Women By Michele Stopera Freyhauf
Terrorism is a worldwide issue, not specific to one religion. While we attribute the atrocities of 9/11 to Islamic extremists, Christianity has a long history of imposing terror, especially on women. Phyllis Trible’s book Texts of Terror describes texts in the Old Testament that… Read More ›
Be-ing in the Church By Xochitl Alvizo
Sometimes it is difficult to make sense of the peculiar paths our religious lives take, much more so to make sense of one another’s paths which can be so different from our own. I was raised in a Mexican American… Read More ›
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