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• Preserving the Complete History: Remembering Japanese Internment Camps By Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on May 28, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  A couple of months ago I did a day trip to visit the historical site of one of the 10 internment camps which were formed due to Executive Order 9066 issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar Relocation Camp is located… Read More ›

• Recalling the Courage of Shamima Shaikh by Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente

  By Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente on May 27, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Shamima Shaikh’s name may be unfamiliar for you and many who are not deeply informed about Islam and gender issues in South Africa or who tend to identify Muslim women and/or activism for women’s rights in Islam with the Arab region. Why… Read More ›

• Gay Pride and Gay Resistance by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on May 26, 2017 • ( 17 )

  

  Welcome to the resistance, Feminism and Religion family. This month is Gay Pride Month in many cities, including mine—Long Beach, California—where we just celebrated our 34th gay pride parade and our annual “Dyke March.”  This blog is primarily a photo… Read More ›

• It’s About More Than Just The Ariana Grande Concert by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on May 25, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  Manchester. It’s not just about this one act of violence. It is horrific, there is no doubt, and I am in no way belittling this act of terror, but, I am always perplexed when these things happen, and how it… Read More ›

• Becoming Myself by Katie M. Deaver

  By Katie M Deaver on May 24, 2017 • ( 22 )

  

  Last weekend was a special one for me.  After many years of study and dedication I graduated with my Ph.D. and am now, officially, Dr. Katie Deaver.  The weekend was filled with celebrations to mark the completion of a milestone… Read More ›

• Earth Dreaming, Water Dreaming: How Elemental Dreams Offer Healing for the Earth and Us by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on May 23, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  I once dreamed I was giving a lecture on a spiritual philosophy called magmatheism.  The literal meaning, I thought when I awoke, would be something like “belief in the divinity of molten rock.”  I had the sense this dream was… Read More ›

• The Mountain Mother: Reading the Language of the Goddess in the Symbols of Ancient Crete by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on May 22, 2017 • ( 13 )

  

  Before he told the story of how his people received the sacred pipe, Black Elk said: So I know that it is a good thing I am going to do; and because no good thing can be done by any… Read More ›

• Shapeshifting Goddesses by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on May 21, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  Magic, divine intervention, shapeshifting – what do these things offer the modern mind, concerned with time clocks, definitive proofs and skeptical disbelief? Yet to the ancients, shapeshifting was a well known tale, found in stories and mythologies across the world.

• Ending Suffering for the Sake of Others by Oxana Poberejnaia

  By Oxana Poberejnaia on May 20, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  I have recently noticed an interesting thing: just like the Buddhist goal of ending suffering requires consideration of others, so often feminist change requires thinking about other women. I often had conversations with people on both these subjects. I heard… Read More ›

• Sexuality and Spirituality: Convergence or Alienation? by Stephanie Arel

  By Stephanie Arel on May 19, 2017 • ( 12 )

  

  I just finished reading for review The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by Donald L. Boisvert and Carly Daniel-Hughes. Targeting an undergraduate audience, the text explores ways that religion, gender, and sexuality intersect and interact in a variety… Read More ›

• Leadership in the Kali Yuga by LaChelle Schilling

  By LaChelle Schilling on May 18, 2017 • ( 16 )

  

  Since the U.S. has elected a reality TV show billionaire to represent our nation, we should be no longer be able to shy away from the ignorance, violence, and frivolity that is within us. Happiness and peace in humanity seem… Read More ›

• Bikini Season by Sarah Kiefer

  By Guest Contributor on May 17, 2017 • ( 12 )

  

  I grew up in a suburban town stuck in the middle of rural Indiana. I drove through corn fields to get to school and on more than one occasion I did have to crawl through my sun roof to get… Read More ›

• Finding Peace in the Wait by Katey Zeh

  By Katey Zeh on May 16, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Have you ever tried to download a number of large files to your computer at the same time? If you’ve purchased a TV series through iTunes or received high-resolution pictures from an important event that you couldn’t wait to view,… Read More ›

• Beginning with Death on the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on May 15, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Our first ritual on the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete is a death ritual in which we honor the memory of those who have gone before us. Like so many things on the pilgrimage, the death ritual evolved. I did not… Read More ›

• Sirens, Thunderstorms, and Bowling: The Divine on this Mother’s Day by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on May 14, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Let’s see if the following course of events makes sense.  A few Wednesdays ago, I was thinking about possible topics for this post considering it would be Mother’s Day.  In the midst of thought, the warning sirens in Prague began…. Read More ›

• Painting Our Lady of Sorrows: Mother’s Day and Resurrection by Angela Yarber

  By Angela Yarber on May 13, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  The month of May finds those within the Christian tradition solidly within Easter season, reveling in the promise of resurrection, while simultaneously celebrating Mother’s Day. To be honest, I’d never seen much of a correlation between these two events in… Read More ›

• The Bird No Longer Perches by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on May 12, 2017 • ( 17 )

  

  Except for a couple of Dr. Phil shows, I have not watched TV since last November’s presidential election. I don’t want to be assaulted by the images of men (and a few women) occupying positions of power and leadership in… Read More ›

• Moonlight Reflections by Elise M. Edwards

  By Elise M. Edwards on May 11, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  As I post this, May 10, a full moon, known as the “Bright Moon” or “Flower Moon” is in the sky. This full moon occurs during a season of transition when living thing things renew and bloom. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s spring, but another transition is already underway. For many of us, spring is nearing close to summer in temperatures; in plant, animal, and insect life; and in our schedules. I am concluding a long, demanding spring semester and yearning for summer. Even though I welcome the transition, I know that like all change, it holds both opportunity and challenge. The full moon prompts me to look at the upcoming summer with clear, examining eyes

• Shakespeare’s Sister Revisited: A Circle of Female Lineage by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on May 10, 2017 • ( 21 )

  

  What do groundbreaking 17th century poet, Aemilia Bassano Lanier, and 20th century feminist icon, Virginia Woolf, have in common? A lot actually. In her 1929 essay, “A Room of One’s Own,” Woolf imagines the tragedy of Shakespeare’s brilliant sister, Judith,… Read More ›

• Remembering My Saints by Katie M. Deaver

  By Katie M Deaver on May 9, 2017 • ( 21 )

  

  My mother and I have always been very interested in our personal connection to the spirit realm.  This connection, for us, is an important one.  We pay attention to the signs and messages that remind us of our continued connection… Read More ›

• Was There a “Golden Age” before Patriarchy and War? by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on May 8, 2017 • ( 24 )

  

  Marija Gimbutas coined the term “Old Europe” c.6500-3500 BCE to describe peaceful, sedentary, artistic, matrifocal, matrilineal and probably matrilocal agricultural societies that worshipped the Goddess as the power of birth, death, and regeneration in all of life. Gimbutas argued that… Read More ›

• Do We Need Wonder Woman Today? by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on May 7, 2017 • ( 25 )

  

  We all remember the protests—and the pink knitted caps with the pussy ears—that filled the streets of our major cities after the inauguration of the Troll-in-Chief. Some members of this FAR community went to those marches and wrote about their… Read More ›

• The Tree of Life and the Forest of Friendship: Circle Dance to Restore our Hope by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on May 6, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  Yes, times are tough. But a better understanding of our interconnectedness can help us move beyond the cynicism, frustration, and despair we may be feeling in the modern world. A closer look at trees, and at women’s traditional circle dances,… Read More ›

• Making Space for the Joy and the Grief by Christy Croft

  By Christy Croft on May 4, 2017 • ( 14 )

  

  Last week, I made a day trip on short notice to fly with a friend to Orlando. As we said our goodbyes, my friend encouraged me to try to catch an earlier flight to avoid arriving home too late in… Read More ›

• Call Me the Devil, If You’d Like by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on May 3, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  Call me the devil, if you’d like. I have just completed the three-hour retreat at the church to prepare my son for his first communion.  It was a long morning, to be sure, but during that time I decide I… Read More ›

• Careful Criticism: Resisting Hetero-Patriarchy while Resisting Trump by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on May 2, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  My students are taking their final exams this week, which means I will be spending the week frantically, but attentively grading in order to make our grade submission deadline next week. End of semester grading is a mountain of careful… Read More ›

• “He Owes Us Nothing”: A Very Bad and Very Sad Theology by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on May 1, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  While waiting to get off a plane last week,  I overheard a serious young woman explaining a recent theological insight to her half-asleep and equally young husband. “You see,” she began, “what I just learned is that though He owes… Read More ›

• The Cracked Glass by Vibha Shetiya

  By Vibha Shetiya on April 30, 2017 • ( 23 )

  

  I haven’t shared this story with too many people, yet it is one that has always remained on the back burner of my mind. I was almost thirteen and as boy-mad as an almost-thirteen-year-old could be. I remember me and… Read More ›

• Writing Through the Body: Betty Smith’s A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Joyce Zonana

  By Joyce Zonana on April 29, 2017 • ( 16 )

  

   In her 1975 manifesto, “The Laugh of the Medusa,” French feminist Hélène Cixous urges women to write: “Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. . . . Women must write through their bodies,… Read More ›

• After the First 100 Days—What Do We Do Now? by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on April 28, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  I am sitting here again with my friend Deb—you can see our first conversation here,  where we were excited about the activism ensuing from the Women’s March. A photo essay of the Los Angeles Women’s March is here. However, like… Read More ›

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