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• Ant Hill by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 10, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  Yesterday I gave a poetry reading at a local library beginning and ending with thoughts about how Climate Change is affecting all living things. I am a naturalist who holds the radical belief that all living things are sentient. I… Read More ›

• To Light a Flaming Pumpkin: The Inexact Art of Family Ritual, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on October 9, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  Our bounty is in creativity friendship community the myriad small adventures of everyday. We tell of magic and moonrise and listening to the pulse of the earth beneath our feet. Ah, October. Fall has settled into the trees and air…. Read More ›

• Joan of Arc from The Goddess Project: Made in Her Image by Colette Numajiri

  By Guest Contributor on October 8, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  “I’m not afraid. I was born to do this.” -Joan of Arc Women are inherently valiant. In extreme situations we armor up and lead others through whatever we are battling at the time. Joan of Arc was a human woman… Read More ›

• Adoring God in Labor by K Kriesel

  By Guest Contributor on October 7, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  The day before the 2019 Nevertheless She Preached conference at First Baptist Church of Austin, TX my own Catholic church’s young adult ministry hosted Eucharistic Adoration. Although I’ve enjoyed Adoration dozens of times, several factors made this evening different. I… Read More ›

• Let Us Now Practice Her Presence by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on October 6, 2019 • ( 18 )

  

  I’m giving you a twofer this month: a poem and a ritual. I’m writing this a few days after the latest mass shooting in Texas by a crazy white man and a few days before the next debate by Democratic… Read More ›

• A Place Below the Cattails by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 5, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  As a woman with Passamaquoddy roots when I first came to Abiquiu I was invited to participate in the six pueblo celebrations along the Rio Grande which made me feel blessed, grateful, included, and at “home.” My own people’s lives… Read More ›

• Call Out Culture vs. Mentor Culture: Which one will save us from the apocalypse? by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on October 4, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  Have you felt the satisfaction of putting someone in their place? Have you ever felt the rush of power that comes with delivering a cutting set-down? Have you ever felt a glow of pride after making fun of a horrible… Read More ›

• The Dying Time by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on October 3, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  At the end of Anita Diamant’s novel, THE RED TENT, Dinah—the same young woman who is only briefly mentioned in the biblical account (Genesis 34)—dies after a long and full life.  The biblical text tells us that Dinah “went out… Read More ›

• In Dreams by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on October 2, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  I am grateful for dreams.  I don’t know what they are, of course, in any absolute sort of way.  Defining dreaming is as elusive as dreams themselves.  Moreover, I find that understanding dreaming is complicated by the vastly variegated quality one finds in… Read More ›

• Autumn Equinox with the Ancestors, or after ecstasy indeed the laundry*) Eline Kieft

  By Guest Contributor on October 1, 2019 • ( 22 )

  

  As I hang the laundry back home, I remember how just 24 hours earlier I arrived back on the beach after an incredible time at the ancestral burial mound where I spend the night in ceremony at the Autumn Equinox…. Read More ›

• Climate Change, the Generations and Religion’s Bad Rap by Susan de Gaia

  By Guest Contributor on September 30, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  As I reflect on my experience at the climate strike on September 20, 2019, I see a connection between climate change and the bad rap that religion has today. When asked what they think about religion, many are quick to… Read More ›

• White Monkey Chronicles: Myth-busting in Eden BOOK REVIEW by BJ Austin

  By Guest Contributor on September 29, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  I binge-read White Monkey Chronicles The Complete Trilogy. The first time. It’s like Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, J.K. Rowling and Gloria Steinem got drunk one night and decided to write a book.  A second, slower read was even sweeter. The first paragraph of… Read More ›

• The Impeachment of Us by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on September 28, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  I do believe that I have heard the word impeach more times in the last three years than ever in my lifetime. Perhaps, when Nixon was impeached that word was thrown around often, but I was young, so have a… Read More ›

• The Maiden Tale of “It’s Happening”* by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on September 27, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  *with thanks to Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale In The Handmaid’s Tale women don’t have their own names anymore. They whisper them to each other in order to re-member who they are: June, Moira… maybe even Lydia Their bodies aren’t… Read More ›

• The Explosion of the TV Show Queer Eye: Part One By Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on September 26, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  In 2019, when mentioning Queer Eye, Queer Theory isn’t on the table, but the Global Netflix hit show is. Responses will range from how each episode gets the viewer to cry, the love of avocado, the French Tuck, and how… Read More ›

• Equinox Reflection by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on September 25, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

  I gaze out my bedroom window and hear yet another golden apple hit the ground. The vines that hug the cabin and climb up the screens are heavy with unripe grapes and the light that is filtered through the trees… Read More ›

• The Prophetess: Greta Thunberg, Global Warming, and the Legacy of Prophecy in Our Own Day by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on September 24, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  My community and many others have been watching in awe as Greta Thunberg makes waves around the world—her lone climate change protest in Sweden growing in a single year into a climate strike with millions of demonstrators around the world. … Read More ›

• Crane – Guide to Royalty, Longevity and Balance by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on September 23, 2019 • ( 18 )

  

  Cranes, seen gliding over the water, searching for food in muddy wetlands and flying overhead in beautiful formations, are graceful, elegant birds – masters of three worlds – air, land and water.

• Me and Brother Francesco by Rachel Hollander

  By Guest Contributor on September 20, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  At the age of nine, I was taken to see the film Brother Sun, Sister Moon. It is a gorgeous film about the early life – and spiritual revelation – of Saint Francis of Assisi, or as I like to… Read More ›

• Some Lessons We Learn the Hard Way by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on September 19, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  I’ve written some very personal things in my most recent posts sharing that I am working towards a rebirth. The terrain has been rough and I keep waiting for a smooth path to appear on the horizon; but it isn’t… Read More ›

• Holy Woman Within: A Hawai’i New Year’s Retreat for Spiritual Creatives by Angela Yarber

  By Angela Yarber on September 18, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  I was a pastor for 14 years. Yes, a queer, feminist, Baptist pastor. We exist. Simultaneously, I completed a PhD and was a professor, both at divinity schools and in a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Dept. I could never… Read More ›

• Field of Dreams by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on September 17, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  Once the new white pine forest that stretches out before me was part of a larger field that belonged to an old farm. The woods cascade down a steep hill on the east side of the house and run parallel… Read More ›

• Giving Up What You Do Not Have by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on September 16, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  I grew up within Christianity—one of the faiths that many religious scholars label as a Western tradition.  It can be difficult at times to wrap my head around religious concepts and symbols labeled by those same religious scholars as Eastern… Read More ›

• Connecting Heaven and Earth: Singing Hildegard

  By Mary Sharratt on September 14, 2019 • ( 24 )

  

  September 17 marks the feast day of 12th century Benedictine abbess and powerfrau, Hildegard von Bingen. Born in the Rhineland in present day Germany, Hildegard (1098–1179) was a visionary and polymath. She founded two monasteries, went on four preaching tours,… Read More ›

• THREE POEMS OF LIFE by Janet Rudolph

  By Guest Contributor on September 13, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  As Above So Below Yes, I believe we are made in god’s image. If god is the wild, passionate, loud, sexual, sizzling, dancing fires of creation. And should I ever forget my fiery, heavenly vision, the sun comes out every… Read More ›

• Pro-Choice and Christian: Reconciling Faith, Politics, and Justice BOOK REVIEW by Katie M. Deaver

  By Katie M Deaver on September 12, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  In 2015 Kira Schlesinger wrote piece for Ministry Matters about how her own pro-choice stance on abortion had become more complicated the more she explored the issue of abortion. The article was widely read and shared, as well as hotly… Read More ›

• FAR Project Intern Applications Due Sept. 15, 2019

  By Feminism and Religion on September 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s about every three years when we at Feminism and Religions put out a solicitation for a new intern to join our team. Back in 2013 we had the great privilege of having Kate Brunner join us. She came on… Read More ›

• A Blinding Light? by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on September 10, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  Nature is a Living Being. Animals and plants have souls, and a spirit. Each species is unique, and yet we are all interconnected, human and non – human species alike. This is more than a both and perspective; its multi-dimensional…. Read More ›

• Harriet Boyd Hawes, Marija Gimbutas, and the Religion of Ancient Crete by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on September 9, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  One of the projects I am working on these days is an essay on the religion of ancient Crete for a series of books on various aspects of the Minoan site of Gournia. Harriet Boyd excavated the Minoan town of… Read More ›

• On Ki Teitzei: Rules and the Importance of Religion by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on September 8, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  The Torah parshah Ki Teitzei, Deutornomy 21:10 to 25:19, contains 74 of the 613 commandments/mitzvot found in the Torah.  These mitzvot cover a wide range of topics and concerns. For example, there are mitzvot about how to sow and harvest… Read More ›

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