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• Spider Wisdom – Creation and Destruction, Part 1 by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on August 28, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  Spider, the eternal weaver of webs, has symbolized creation since people first began storytelling. Cultures worldwide have associated Spider with the Creator Goddess, weaving – and through association with women as they were the weavers who spent endless hours creating… Read More ›

• Suffrage is Unfinished Business—On The 101 Anniversary of the 19th Amendment by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on August 27, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  Dear FAR readers – please find photos from a celebration of the 101 anniversary of women’s suffrage, the 19th Amendment, that I attended August 26, 2021. That day marks the end of the 100th year of women having the right… Read More ›

• Rosh Hashanah and the Goddess – redux – by Joyce Zonana

  By Joyce Zonana on August 26, 2021 • ( 20 )

  

  On our table, the crimson pomegranate seeds my mother had carefully separated from the skin glistened like jewels illumined from within; a pale green jam made from the grated flesh of a gourd, scented with rosewater and studded with thin slivers of blanched almonds, shone with a numinous, interior light. Bowls of black-eyed peas simmered with cinnamon and tomatoes were arrayed beside a delicately-flavored leek omelet, breaded and fried brains, roasted beets, fresh dates, apples, and—best of all—a previously untasted new fruit of the season: usually fresh fig or persimmon or prickly pear.

• Vigil by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 24, 2021 • ( 22 )

  

  The third daydawns under a cloud. Mourning dovesspread their wingsacross leaden skies.I am walking on air.Two restlessnights – a hugetruck in the yard –Blocked,my stomach lurches.I read Tributes in a daze.Fierce Little FlowerWarrior Womanfights a torrent of waves.She is bridging raging watersforging a New… Read More ›

• Carol Christ Symposium ~ Call for Papers by Mara Lynn Keller ~ Deadline for Proposals this Week!

  By Guest Contributor on August 23, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  Carol P. ChristA Symposium in Celebration of Her Spiritual-Feminist Activism and Women’s Spirituality Scholarship “The Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is in all being.” ~ Carol P. Christ Free Symposium via Zoom hosted byWomen’s Spirituality Graduate Studies Program California… Read More ›

• A Mystical Journey: Psalm 93 by Janet Rudolph MaiKa’i

  By Janet Rudolph on August 19, 2021 • ( 24 )

  

  Sometimes I’m asked where I get my inspirations for verses to explore. In this case it was from the God Squad’s Rabbi Marc Gellman who discussed Psalm 93 in a recent column. In his analysis, he used Psalm 93 to… Read More ›

• Earth Rises Again by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 17, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

    A horizonbelching sooty smokepollutes once pure airpressing invisibleparticles, ozone into granite – lichen covered mountains –  plant/animal lungs are coated in filthjust as ours are. Death hangs overa leaden sky,the sweet scentof moistureis absent.Tomorrow’sbitter orange sunrisesignals what manystill refuse to believe:The Earth is on Fire.Those… Read More ›

• Leonora Carrington’s THE HEARING TRUMPET – Book Review by Sally Abbott

  By Guest Contributor on August 16, 2021 • ( 10 )

  

  Long a fan of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, I was initially hesitant when the New York Review of Books reissued her 1974 novel, The Hearing Trumpet.  I didn’t know what to expect when this extraordinary painter picked up a pen. To my… Read More ›

• Talking about Death with my Daughter & Remembering Carol Christ

  By Sara Frykenberg on August 15, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  Recently, facing the reality that I do not have definitive or perhaps, static “answers” for my little one when she asks me about death, I find comfort in Carol’s words—in the idea that I don’t have to “answer” my daughter with one, forever “truth.” Because I have to ability to give her “enough,” at least for now.

• Why Life Balance is a Feminist Issue by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on August 14, 2021 • ( 21 )

  

  The move to Portugal all but forced me to heal my relationship with time and productivity, to create a life that was sustainable and nurturing.

• Looking for Home by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on August 13, 2021 • ( 13 )

  

  For as long as I can remember, I’ve been looking for home—home being both a beautiful, comfortable, geographic space as well as a peaceful state of mind/being.  For most of my life, I’ve “made do,” settling for wherever or whatever… Read More ›

• Governor Cuomo and How Far We Have Not Come by Janet MaiKa’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on August 12, 2021 • ( 10 )

  

  Once again, I find myself writing about a man in power getting caught abusing women. It turns my stomach. The ink is barely dry on my blogpost about Bill Cosby. This time it’s Andrew Cuomo, the governor of my state,… Read More ›

• Summer Magic, by Molly M. Remer

  By Molly Remer on August 11, 2021 • ( 11 )

  

  We take a slice of honey cakeand a pottery cup of grape juiceand leave it by the rose bushas an offering,arrayed on a bed of petalsand topped with a single daisyand a ring of wild raspberries.We make some wishesin the… Read More ›

• Legacy by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 10, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  When I planted my cedarin the gardenit seemed like an odd place –Why bury her amongst a plethora of summer flowersunless I feared she’d disappear?I was afraid to name her – Guardian. When delicate fronds dulled, turned brownI despaired. Weeks passed.I considered pullingher up… Read More ›

• Remembering Carol Christ – and going forward in her footsteps by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on August 9, 2021 • ( 27 )

  

  When I was 17, I left the US to live and study in Europe for a year, with Womanspirit Rising crammed into my backpack. This book, edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, gave me the solid ground of… Read More ›

• Shofetim: The Divine Feminine, Magic, and the Role of Gender by Ivy Helman.

  By Ivy Helman on August 8, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  This post is dedicated to Carol P. Christ. I knew her first as my professor and then my friend for over 15 years. May her memory be a blessing. This week’s Torah portion is Shofetim (also spelt Shoftim), or Deutoronomy… Read More ›

• Feminist Parenting About Sexuality Part 4: What to tell my daughters by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on August 5, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  In this blog series, we have discussed: —The importance of admitting how painful this subject is —Reminders that I am NOT saying all men are bad or maleness is bad, because men and maleness are truly inherently beautiful and divine… Read More ›

• Women, Birds, and Feminism by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 3, 2021 • ( 17 )

  When I was about forty years old I discovered a clay deposit on a beach that I visited frequently. Intrigued, I sat down and began working with the river’s gift. I remember my astonishment when a beaked bird – woman… Read More ›

• Occult Adventures with Walter Troll – A Truly True Story Part 2 by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on August 1, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  Read Part 1 of this story here We want you as our earth slave. I put the pendulum away. I went into Charles’s bedroom and watched TV with him. But I was addicted. First thing Saturday morning—back to the pendulum…. Read More ›

• Occult Adventures with Walter Troll -A Truly True Story Part 1 by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on July 31, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  I was born into a Republican, Calvinist, working-class family in Ferguson, Missouri, and was a teenager during the 1950s. Nothing remotely “spooky” or occult about my life. I was fortunate to discover the Unitarian Universalist Association during my freshman year… Read More ›

• Forgiveness is a choice-Part 2 by Vibha Shetiya

  By Vibha Shetiya on July 29, 2021 • ( 18 )

  

  It’s been over five years since I wrote the first part of this topic. A lot has happened since then; I have changed for the better or so I would like to believe, but I guess the real question is… Read More ›

• Remembering Karolina by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on July 28, 2021 • ( 21 )

  

  Early in the morning of July 15, 2021, I was sitting amid the chaos of boxes in my new home which I had just closed on a week earlier. I had woken at 5 am to a leak in the… Read More ›

• Patriarchy – For Love of Predators by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on July 27, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  I live just down the road from one of our many lakes and ponds here in western Maine. Almost every morning I hear the haunting call of the loons as they fly over the house. Although I cherish the symphony… Read More ›

• Loving Venus, a poem by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on July 23, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  Dedicated to Carol Christ, 1945-2021, who taught so many of us how to love the Goddess She is called “Nude Woman” and currently livesin her natural museum house in Vienna.Nude woman. She is art, but she is not in an… Read More ›

• Rainy day Reflection by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on July 22, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  Although the rain is tapering off we have had a temporary reprieve from the drought that has followed us through last year into spring and summer. Although the brook is flowing too quietly even after three days of showers the… Read More ›

• Midsummer Births a Goddess: In Honor of Carol Christ by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on July 21, 2021 • ( 15 )

  

  This year, more than ever before, I note a very subtle shift that is occurring as we approach the middle of July. Lots of humidity – and I confess – I love the sweet summer scent as long as it… Read More ›

• Becoming the Mother: A Dream Journey to the Sacred Feminine by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on July 20, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  This essay is dedicated to the memory of Carol P. Christ, scholar of the Goddess, who has brought so much wisdom and liberation to our world, and whom I deeply admired. May her memory be a blessing. The call of the… Read More ›

• We Are Not Oppressed Because We Remember pt. 3: Sowing Seeds and Braiding Hair by Chasity Jones

  By Guest Contributor on July 17, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  Today, once again, I got to touch the earth! While planting and constructing my indoor container garden, I thought about how my ancestors put seeds into their children’s hair so that in case they were taken away to live and… Read More ›

• She Who Lives: Carol P. Christ

  By Gina Messina on July 15, 2021 • ( 27 )

  

  Carol P. Christ is one the bravest, boldest, and most revolutionary women we have ever known. For so many of us, Carol is a friend, a mentor, and the one who taught us to tell our stories. Her books, articles,… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: A Collective Tribute to Carol Patrice Christ 1945-2021

  By Xochitl Alvizo on July 15, 2021 • ( 49 )

  

  Our sister friend, Laura Shannon, emailed us early in the morning to share the news that “Carol passed peacefully in her sleep last night at 12.11 am on July 14th. Alexis (Masters) was with her.” Carol died in the company of friends.

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