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• The Uses of Color On Screen by Freia Serafina

  By Guest Contributor on September 2, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  We have to thank a woman named Natalie M. Kalmus for her contributions to the development of color on screen. Being a woman and the executive head of the Technicolor art department in the 1930’s was nothing short of extraordinary,… Read More ›

• Redefining Sex and Intimacy in the New World We Are Making by Caryn MacGrandle

  By Caryn MacGrandle on September 1, 2022 • ( 11 )

  

  TRIGGER WARNING: Post divorce, I find myself redefining my relationships and want to share some discoveries I have made about sex and intimacy, and how that relates to my spirituality and identity as a feminist. I freely admit they might… Read More ›

• By Truth the Earth Endures by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on August 31, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  “By truth the Earth endures.” This Old Irish pronouncement quoted by Peter Berresford Ellis in  The Druids (p. 162) holds such hope. In this moment when the survival of humans and other living beings on our planet is uncertain, when… Read More ›

• Mystic Musings in Late July by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 30, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Intolerable temperatures, the air dripping with humidity, unable to sweat, my body catches fire. My aging mind shuts down. How to find hope in the ruins, not just personally but all around me in dying leaves rife with holes or… Read More ›

• The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Was Ariadne the Most Graceful Bull-leaper of All? Deconstructing and Re-visioning Greek Mythology

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on August 29, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  This was originally posted on March 3, 2014 Sometimes we think of Greek myth as a pre-patriarchal or less patriarchal alternative to the stories of the Bible. After all, Goddesses appear in Greek myths while they are nearly absent from… Read More ›

• From the Archives: We are Mauna Kea: The Continual Protest for Maintaining Sacred Land by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on August 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Moderator’s Note: The blog was originally posted November 21, 2015. The movement for the sacred land is still relevant and active. It seems like there is a perpetual debate over acquiring land for progress and growth versus the protection of… Read More ›

• Woman of the Isle of Women by Annelinde Metzner

  By Guest Contributor on August 27, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Gratitude to the FAR community for welcoming my poems as of April of this year.   Various earlier poems have been my way of introducing myself.      My work as a poet and composer has been centered around welcoming the reemergence… Read More ›

• “Guns: The Sanctity of Life” by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on August 26, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  What can I say about guns? I want to be like Gabby Giffords and survive I want to be Emma Gonzalez and fight back I want to be I want to talk about how GUNS are less regulated than my… Read More ›

• What Would a “Good Christian Woman” Do? by Liz Cooledge Jenkins

  By Liz Cooledge Jenkins on August 25, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  Early morning lap swim at the local pool is generally a peaceful space for me. It’s usually pretty uneventful. I try to go three times a week; I don’t always feel like going, but I always feel better after I… Read More ›

• Whale Continues Singing to Me by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on August 24, 2022 • ( 12 )

  

  The mystery evoked by Whale continues to fill my heart as Whale images fill up papers laid out on my drawing table.

• Seeding up at the Turning By Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 23, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  The forest is bursting with berries, blue lily beads are just one of a multitude of seeds…Astonishing pearl bells adorn mounds of shining wintergreen that shimmer across the forest floor. Soon those berries will blush, bead up, cry scarlet. Three… Read More ›

• The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: What if Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine Are Not Oppositional Categories?

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on August 22, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Moderator’s Note: The blog was originally posted May 18, 2015 A friend who is a spiritual teacher speaks often “bringing back the values associated with the Divine Feminine.” For her this has to do with helping women to understand the… Read More ›

• 9 Ingredients for Building New Narratives by Eline Kieft

  By Guest Contributor on August 21, 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  There have been a few intriguing posts recently on creating new narratives (by Carolyn Lee Boyd, whose ‘dollops of mud’ inspired the title of this post), and reinterpreting existing ones that are deeply embedded in the fabric of our cultures… Read More ›

• SpiritualiTEA with Chasity Podcast, Episode 3 by Chasity Jones

  By Guest Contributor on August 20, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  An excerpt from SpiritualiTEA with Chasity Podcast Episode 3: Why are we afraid of Divination??? What is divination? Divination is from Latin divinare “to foresee, to be inspired by a god”. (Goleman, David. The Varieties of the Meditative Experience. London:… Read More ›

• The Fall of Patriarchy: I Got Scammed by Caryn MacGrandle

  By Caryn MacGrandle on August 19, 2022 • ( 11 )

  

  I am a few months out of my second marriage. There will be no third. I know my task right now is to become self-sufficient. Thanks to my second husband, I have valuable Project Management skills. He set up an S-Corporation when he… Read More ›

• From Footbinding to Abortion and Beyond – This Has to Stop! by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on August 18, 2022 • ( 12 )

  

  My husband, Marty, is a retired podiatrist.  He worked in pockets of New York City that were poor and largely immigrant. When he first started his practice, he treated women from China whose feet had been bound. Despite being officially… Read More ›

• Visions of the Great Mother by Mary Gelfand

  By Mary Gelfand on August 17, 2022 • ( 20 )

  

  During late summer a few years ago I had a vision.  I know it was summer because it was hurricane season and there were several active storms in the Atlantic & Caribbean.  Since I grew up in Florida and lived… Read More ›

• Three poems by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 16, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Spirits of the Forest In Forest Presence I listen,  leaves and needles rustle Voices Hum inside Hemlock bark  sounding if only humans  would listen Incantations  erupt beneath the forest floor wrapped in a tapestry of threads millions of miles of… Read More ›

• The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Who Is Jephthah’s Daughter? The Sacrifice of Women and Girls

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on August 15, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Moderator’s Note: The was originally posted on January 20, 2014 Last week I reflected on Angela Yarber’s insightful essay and painting on Jephthah’s daughter. For those who did not read the earlier posts, the story of Jephthah’s daughter is found… Read More ›

• On Eikev: Whose Behavior Should We Emulate? by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on August 14, 2022 • ( 1 )

  The Torah portion for 20 August is Eikev, or Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25.  Eikev describes the importance of spirituality in one’s life and proscribes the actions of spiritually-attuned people.  The portion returns time and again to whom one should be spiritually connected:… Read More ›

• A Visionary History of Women: Part 3

  By Mary Sharratt on August 13, 2022 • ( 10 )

  

  The Pendle Witches As a spiritual person, I am fascinated with women’s experience of the sacred. We women, for the past five-thousand years of patriarchy, have been side-lined and marginalized by every established religion in the world. But in every… Read More ›

• My Daughter’s Religions by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on August 12, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  I find it interesting how certain or settled we often expect our little ones to be instead of getting curious about them or acknowledging that they are curious.

• All these sexist movies turn me red by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on August 11, 2022 • ( 14 )

  

  *Warning* – contains spoilers about the movie “Turning Red” as well as “Brave,” “inside Out,” and “Encanto.” Imagine something with me for a moment. Imagine there is a movie about an adolescent boy who discovers that he has magic shapeshifting… Read More ›

• Taking it to the Cauldron, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on August 10, 2022 • ( 12 )

  

  If I squint,I can almost see steam liftingfrom a cauldron in the forestand smell changedrifting through the air.I am looking at the shardsof the year,some new-broken,some re-collected,some shining with possibility,and I feel the call,the urge,the promise,to tip them all into… Read More ›

• Butterfly Wounding by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 9, 2022 • ( 10 )

  

  Bittersweet orange invokes wounding past torment endured at the hands of those who would harm. Air is lightened, cleansed by absence Trees rejoice Slaughter shifts perspective  Despair presses Diamond. Fritillary seeks  her flower lover in waiting Tongue seeking.

• The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: “MERMAID, GODDESS OF THE SEA”

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on August 8, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  This was originally posted on November 4, 2013 On the recent Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete, I visited the Historical Museum in Heraklion where I saw a beautiful embroidered silk panel of a mermaid identified only as having come from Koustogerako, a… Read More ›

• WordPress Alert – UPDATED

  By Feminism and Religion on August 8, 2022 • ( 14 )

  

  We have been getting messages from people who have been frustrated with WordPress because there are times when WordPress makes it difficult to post a comment.  We value comments and are frustrated as well when this happens.  UPDATE: the best… Read More ›

• Lions and Tigers and Bears, Aha! by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on August 7, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  The singing girl and her two new friends were walking very carefully along the edge of the yellow brick road. Outside of the bright sunlight, the bricks sere filthy and hardly yellow. This was thanks to a supply chain problem…. Read More ›

• From the Archives: And No Religion Too by Elizabeth Cunningham

  By Elizabeth Cunningham on August 6, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  This was originally posted on January 17, 2016 Religion. As a species we can’t seem to live with it or without it. There is dispute about the derivation of the word, but some scholars believe it has the same root… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Serpent Healing by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on August 5, 2022 • ( 7 )

  

  This was originally posted on October 38, 2014 Snakes have been considered sacred in Greece and the Balkans, as well as other cultures, since at least 7000 BCE. They are symbols of rebirth and regeneration, as they travel between our… Read More ›

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