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• When the Cranes Come by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on February 25, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  When the Cranes Come I remember who I am – A woman with wings. When the Cranes Come I listen with rapt attention I am a woman with wings. When the Cranes Come I am pulled into a primordial field… Read More ›

• Ancient Mothers, I Hear You Calling Me to Crete by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on February 24, 2020 • ( 19 )

  

  On a cold and rainy morning in Lesbos, I ponder the advice of my intuitive friend Cristina to reflect on the spiritual dimensions of my decision to move to Crete. When asked why I am moving from Lesbos to Crete,… Read More ›

• Let’s Talk about Frozen 2 by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on February 23, 2020 • ( 14 )

  

  While facetiming my brother, I heard my two-year-old niece shout at the top of her lungs that she was “Queen Elsa” and was coming to save me. I had started writing about the Frozen films, when Sara posted on them…. Read More ›

• Say it with Music by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on February 21, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  Daniel Deitrich, a worship leader in South Bend City Church, a “Jesus-centered community” in South Bend, Indiana, isn’t the first evangelical Christian to go up against fellow evangelical Christians who support the current U.S. president.  Perhaps, though, he’s the first… Read More ›

• Beth March and the Courage of the Gentle Giver by Cathleen Flynn

  By Guest Contributor on February 20, 2020 • ( 18 )

  

  As someone who spent my prepubescent years watching director Gillian Armstrong’s “Little Women”, I was eager to see Greta Gerwig’s newly released version. Previously unexplored contours of each character, and of my changed perceptions, were made visible through this iteration…. Read More ›

• Dialogue as Revolution by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on February 19, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  It was through these many conversations that I continued a dialogue with myself about my own role in the divisive nature of our relationships and the need to acknowledge individual identity and lived experience in relation to one’s perspective.

• A Tribute to Rupert Sheldrake by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on February 18, 2020 • ( 22 )

  

  I first discovered Rupert Sheldrake’s work by reading his first two books: “A New Science of Life” written in 1981 followed by “The Presence of the Past.” These two books changed my life because they validated my experiential reality and… Read More ›

• “And a Rich Old White Man Shall Lead Them”? by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on February 17, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  “And a rich old white man shall lead them.” Is this saying found in the Bible or any other collection of sacred texts that those committed to social justice admire? If not, then why are liberal pundits (and even some… Read More ›

• Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis by Heide Goettner-Abendroth

  By Guest Contributor on February 16, 2020 • ( 36 )

  

  Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for mothers… Read More ›

• Staying Un-Frozen by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on February 14, 2020 • ( 17 )

  

  It is February 14th, Valentines Day. So, today I want to explore my daughter’s love affair with Frozen; a story that I did not like, but that I learned to love by watching it through her eyes. A story which… Read More ›

• I Hope “This Changes Everything” by Elise M. Edwards

  By Elise M. Edwards on February 13, 2020 • ( 17 )

  

  Last week, I attended a film festival in Waco, Texas that showed the 2019 documentary This Changes Everything. Spending Friday evening at a film festival seemed like an enjoyable and appropriate way to kick off a weekend that would culminate… Read More ›

• A Lonely Mystic by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on February 12, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  I want to be a lonely mystic dwelling in devotion, constantly dialoging with divinity, drenched in wonder, and doused with delight in knowing my place in the family of things. I want to weave spells from wind and wildness, soak… Read More ›

• The Terrible-Horrible, Wonderful-Beautiful, Superbowl Halftime Show by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on February 11, 2020 • ( 35 )

  

  A lof of people have been raving about the Superbowl Halftime show, and for good reasons. A lot of people have been raging about the Superbowl Halftime show, and for good reasons. [Please hang in there with me as I… Read More ›

• The Ability to Feel and to Feel the Feelings of Others by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on February 10, 2020 • ( 16 )

  

  The term “panpsychism” is made up of two Greek words: pan, meaning all, and psyche, often translated mind or soul. Panpsychism is the view that (forms of) soul or mind or consciousness are found throughout the web of life. This… Read More ›

• When Every Day Will Be Tu B’Shevat by Ivy Helman.

  By Ivy Helman on February 9, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  Tomorrow is Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of the Trees, or their birthday.  It is the day of the year when all trees, regardless of when they have been planted, turn another year older.  The rabbis standardized this day in… Read More ›

• Seeking Moments of Beauty in a Crazy World by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on February 8, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  Black Swan by Anna Marija Bulka   Our world seems to get crazier by the day. We live increasingly accelerated lives. Our downtime seems to shrink by the second. If I don’t watch myself, I get mired in tunnel-vision, doggedly… Read More ›

• I’m Going Over the Cliff: How About You? by A Friend of FAR

  By Guest Contributor on February 7, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  It appears that I am getting a divorce. My husband and I have struggled – well, we have struggled – our entire eleven year marriage. We’ve had a lot to deal with: court problems with my first husband, lost jobs,… Read More ›

• Fragments of Beauty by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on February 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Can I empathize with your feeling, your interest in this? Be sound, my heart that feels the beat of yours as my own. I would like to be human one day. Let my prayer be not please, for, I fear… Read More ›

• Daughter of the Cranes by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on February 4, 2020 • ( 19 )

  

  When I see them I enter the Dreaming. In the background  a jagged coat of barren reptilian mountains  frames bountiful bodies standing on stilts as  undulating necks,  crimson crowns beaded eyes dive below the surface in search of last year’s… Read More ›

• Today Is the Day by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on February 3, 2020 • ( 14 )

  

  I have been thinking of moving to Crete for almost two years. I signed the pre-contract for my new apartment in Heraklion on September 28 last year and anticipated signing the final contract in October. However, the owner did not… Read More ›

• Let’s Celebrate a God and a Goddess for February by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on February 2, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  Back around the turn of the century when I was writing Pagan Every Day, I did a lot of research. I had to. I had to write something for every day of the year, including leap year day and a… Read More ›

• Trauma Healing through Communal Dance by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on February 1, 2020 • ( 16 )

  

  The last few weeks have been difficult for me. I was already feeling raw from the treatment of refugees in Greece, the upheaval of impending Brexit in the UK, the fires devasting Australia and the Amazon, and so many other… Read More ›

• The Kreismesser: Women and Magic Swords in Jewish Tradition by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on January 30, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  I have always had a particular fascination with women warriors—particularly ancient and medieval ones.  Joan of Arc was a favorite, as was Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt. My father had a sword from Spain hanging on his wall in… Read More ›

• Tree Talk: Dr. Susan Simard by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on January 29, 2020 • ( 18 )

  

  Scientist Susan Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has been studying the below-ground fungal networks that connect trees and facilitate underground inter-tree communication and interaction. Over a period of more than… Read More ›

• Mis(sing)Understanding: Kobe, Pompeo, and a Paper Towel by Marcia Mount Shoop

  By Marcia Mount Shoop on January 28, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  Who knows when each of us first learns that sensation—the sensation of being misunderstood.  My hunch is that it comes early on in our lives, maybe even before our brains are making narrative memory, maybe even before we have begun… Read More ›

• Spiritual without a Tradition and Feminist to the Core! by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on January 27, 2020 • ( 19 )

  

  In “Who Owns the Sacred?” Eline Kieft, who was raised Protestant and considers nature and the ancestors her teachers, noted that those of us who have left the Christian tradition but who have not signed on to another tradition are… Read More ›

• I’m Getting Triggered by the Impeachment Trial and I Bet I’m Not Alone by Janet Rudolph

  By Guest Contributor on January 26, 2020 • ( 20 )

  

  This process is rattling my bones and aching my heart. How often have we seen angry men (and sometimes women) abusing women, abusing the earth, abusing the vulnerable, abusing immigrants, abusing power? And yet the pattern never seems to end…. Read More ›

• 2020 Women’s March by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on January 24, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  Here we are at the fourth now annual Women’s March. I have done a photo essay of the March every year for Feminism and Religion (FAR), the first two from the Los Angeles March, and the last two from Orange… Read More ›

• Wolf – The Call of the Wild by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on January 22, 2020 • ( 17 )

  

  Howling wolves on a winter’s night sets the human heart aflame with fear – their legends are terrifying. Yet there is another side to Wolf. Deeply relational by nature, wolves are highly intelligent animals, excellent hunters and devoted to family…. Read More ›

• Born Again by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on January 21, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  “Let me sing to you about how people turn into other things.”  (Ovid) Years ago I placed my brother’s ashes in a shallow depression that I had dug near a granite fern and moss covered boulder. The brook flowed just… Read More ›

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