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• Family, Interdependence, and Mutual Support by Christy Croft

  By Christy Croft on July 19, 2017 • ( 14 )

  

  Over the past few months, a precious person has come closer into my family’s life in such a way that their presence in my home, among my loved ones, has come to feel natural and easy. This is someone I… Read More ›

• The Intersections of Faith and Reproductive Justice by Katey Zeh

  By Katey Zeh on July 18, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  Last week I participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Center for American Progress (CAP) on the intersections of faith and reproductive justice. These conversations are critically important, particularly in these political times when threats to our bodily autonomy… Read More ›

• Another One Bites the Dust: Orthodox Priest Defrocked for Declaring God Our Mother and Father Is Love by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on July 17, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  While trying to find a topic for today’s blog, I came across a facebook post from July 10 by former Orthodox priest Christoforos Schuff in which he announced: After reaffirming my beliefs on gender, sexuality, faith and the Church…and sharing… Read More ›

• Who is She? an excerpt (edited for brevity) from the 25th anniversary edition of The Return of the Goddess, A Divine Comedy by Elizabeth Cunningham

  By Elizabeth Cunningham on July 16, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  Introduction by Maeve: Elizabeth’s July post usually features an excerpt from my Chronicles in honor of my feast day, July 22.  This year the excerpt comes from the novel that opened the way for my story.  Ever since a playdough… Read More ›

• The Pull of Mara by Oxana Poberejnaia

  By Oxana Poberejnaia on July 15, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Recently I need to take a deep breath every time I glance at the news headlines. There are terror attacks and military conflicts. People kill each other and cause each other immense suffering. The worst thing is that so many… Read More ›

• With Women by Kate Brunner

  By Kate M. Brunner on July 14, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  Someone told me the other day that Death Doulas are one of the fastest growing career fields out there right now. As a (currently not practicing) Birth Doula, this does not surprise me. The term Doula came into its modern… Read More ›

• Mulling over Movies: Moana, Pt. 2 by Elise M. Edwards

  By Elise M. Edwards on July 13, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  Every summer in the US, movie theatres show their newest big budget films, hoping to draw in large audiences. While I appreciate an air-conditioned theatre on a hot day, I love the opportunity to go to an outdoor movie screening…. Read More ›

• Let’s Talk About White Supremacy by Grace Yia-Hei Kao

  By Grace Yia-Hei Kao on July 12, 2017 • ( 16 )

  

  Sometimes I come across a resource that’s so fantastic that all I want to do is promote it. This incredible graphic from the blog site Radical Discipleship recently made the rounds on my Facebook news feed.

• The Motherhood of God by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on July 11, 2017 • ( 26 )

  

  Doing a recent talk on pioneering woman writers, I like to do the Before Jane Austen test with my audience. Who can name a single woman writer in the English language before Jane Austen? Alas, because woman have been written… Read More ›

• The Keepers and the Roman Catholic Church by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on July 10, 2017 • ( 12 )

  

  He told me his “come” was a sacrament… He made the sign of the cross with it on my breasts. Jean Hargadon Wehner in The Keepers I sat glued to my television last weekend watching seven episodes of The Keepers… Read More ›

• Reflections on Marriage by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on July 9, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  My partner and I are getting married in a little over a month.  She, a lawyer, and I, a professor, live in the Czech Republic.  Technically, we aren’t getting married because the Czech Republic doesn’t have marriage equality.  Our relationship… Read More ›

• Holy Women Icons Online Retreats by Angela Yarber

  By Angela Yarber on July 8, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  I’ve shared before that the non-profit my wife and I created, the Holy Women Icons Project, is in the process of creating a small intersectionally ecofeminist retreat center on Hawai’i Island. The Holy Women Icons Project seeks to empower marginalized… Read More ›

• Beginning Conversations about the Body at Ease by Stephanie Arel

  By Stephanie Arel on July 7, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  A topic that continually perplexes me, both personally and professionally, concerns the connection, or harmonization if you will, between our cognitive capacities and our physical expression and comfort, between thinking and feeling. Yoga, dance, working out, meditating, and other modalities… Read More ›

• Gratitudo et Fortitudo by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on July 6, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  One of the bigger problems with being the only Classics major at a Jesuit university is that all my friends were fairly old men before I had even reached drinking age. Now, they are pretty much gone back to the… Read More ›

• The Definition of Strength, Gaslight Edition by Vibha Shetiya

  By Vibha Shetiya on July 5, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Recently when I was feeling low and a little devoid of hope, a friend of mine paid me a fabulous compliment: “Things will get better. You’re a very strong person.” I know it was a real compliment and not an… Read More ›

• Making America What Again? Reflections for the 4th of July by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on July 4, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  I find myself asking (again), when the religious right, evangelicals, and Christian fundamentalists hear Trump say, “Make America Great Again,” do they really hear him saying, “Make America Christian Again?” How can the really hear him saying that in light of what this man has actually said and actually done? The answer: because of the same mythical purity that erases the violence, slaughter, and atrocity attached to this “Christian nation’s” founding.

• Sometimes I Think I Am a Voice Crying in the Wilderness … by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on July 3, 2017 • ( 19 )

  

  Just last week I was dumbfounded when an acquaintance told me that his philosopher partner calls a woman leading a workshop on labyrinths “a tree hugger.” “What,” I wanted to say, “is wrong with being a tree hugger? Are we… Read More ›

• Wickeder and Wickeder by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on July 2, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  The raven was standing on the little table in the wicked witch’s private room. Expecting a new kind of feast, he dipped his beak into a bowl of wiggly white worms. And spat them clear across the room. “Great Suffering… Read More ›

• The Trees and We Breathe Bombs Long Gone by LaChelle Schilling

  By LaChelle Schilling on July 1, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  I wish that in our pursuit of finding cures for illnesses we would do more as a collective species to prevent the causes, sometimes environmental ones. Why do we vote for people to make decisions that represent us but that… Read More ›

• Contemplative Resistance by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on June 30, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  I recently arrived in Las Cruces, New Mexico, after driving across much of the country from Richmond, Virginia. It’s the second summer I’ve driven this distance (2,000 miles) so I varied my route a bit from last year, stopping at… Read More ›

• A Healing Home of Dreams by Joyce Zonana

  By Joyce Zonana on June 29, 2017 • ( 19 )

  

  I had few expectations before my visit in the winter of 1999 to Cairo’s Rav Moshe Synagogue, also called the “Rambam.” I only knew it to be an obscure synagogue and yeshiva associated with the renowned twelfth-century theologian, sage, and physician,… Read More ›

• Star Tree – Star Goddess by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on June 28, 2017 • ( 22 )

  

  In a world where humans were small and nature was big, surrounded by forests of trees of immense size and stature, it’s not surprising that the ancient Celts came to hold trees as sacred. Like many others, the Celts revered… Read More ›

• Pride by John Erickson

  By John Erickson on June 27, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  When we come together, we are the Divine.  I didn’t think I could experience that twice in one year; clearly, I was wrong. 

• Woman and Nature: Our Bodies Are Ourselves by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on June 26, 2017 • ( 19 )

  

  This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am how we admire the strength in each other, all that we have suffered, all that we have lost, all that we know…. Read More ›

• Saving Tomorrow: Wonder Woman and Her Elevated Role in Shaping Our World by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on June 25, 2017 • ( 23 )

  

  June 2, 2017 saw a boost in the revolution led by a former Israeli soldier turned model and actor in the iconic role of Wonder Woman, a role that has been around for over 76 years. The movie has shattered… Read More ›

• Medusa and Athena: Ancient Allies in Healing Women’s Trauma by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on June 24, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  ‘Rather than being a bleeding image of female disempowerment, Medusa may be read as…one of the most ancient European symbols of women’s spiritual abilities… [and] an empowering image of feminine potential.’ –Patricia Monaghan, O Mother Sun! (1994:244) The name Medusa… Read More ›

• #RESIST is the new #FABULOUS by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on June 23, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  As promised in my blog last month, in which  I sent photos from the Long Beach 2017 Dyke March,  here is a photo essay from this year’s Los Angeles  #RESIST March. This was the first year in Los Angeles Pride… Read More ›

• In This Fractured World, I Will Not Remain Silent by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on June 22, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  The recent killing of 17 year old Nabra Hassanen is on my mind. Not only was she killed—brutally beaten with a baseball bat—but it is thought that she was raped, too. Twice. During Ramadan. By an undocumented Latino from El… Read More ›

• Resistance and the Religious Left by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on June 21, 2017 • ( 12 )

  

  For the last forty years, the Christian Right has influenced the conversation in American politics. Where is the Religious Left and how are they impacting our nation’s moral agenda? It is an important question, and now, more than ever, we… Read More ›

• Anti-Muslim Demonstrations Demand Our Response by Katey Zeh

  By Katey Zeh on June 20, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  On June 10th anti-Muslim demonstrations were held in 28 cities across the United States, including one a few miles down the road from me at the North Carolina Capitol grounds in Raleigh. Organized by ACT for America, identified by the… Read More ›

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