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• Unexpected Divine Encounters by Katey Zeh

  By Katey Zeh on October 15, 2018 • ( 17 )

  

  As I finalize my manuscript for Women Rise Up, to be published with the FAR press in early 2019, I want to share this excerpt from my chapter on Mary Magdalene.  The Spirit of God moves at unexpected times and places…. Read More ›

• The Women of Lech Lecha by Ivy Helman.

  By Ivy Helman on October 14, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  The parshah for this week is Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27).  I’ve actually written about Lech Lecha on this forum before, concentrating on the parental aspects of the divine.  See here.  However, this time I want to look at the Torah… Read More ›

• All Hallows Tide in Old Lancashire by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on October 13, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

    My 2010 video docudrama about the Pendle Witches. Fun fact: my Welsh pony makes a guest appearance here.   Come Halloween, the popular imagination turns to witches. Especially in Pendle Witch Country where I have lived since 2002. This… Read More ›

• Refrigerator Poetry by Kate Brunner

  By Kate M. Brunner on October 12, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  I am at such a loss over the state of things these days. What’s left for me seems to be a process of assessing where I have agency at this exact moment and of taking refuge in small things. After… Read More ›

• Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith and for Freedom BOOK REVIEW by Katie M. Deaver

  By Katie M Deaver on October 11, 2018 • ( 11 )

  

  In the book, Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith and for Freedom, editor Karen L. Garst puts together the voices of women from a variety of backgrounds in an effort to present a case against faith. While the introduction… Read More ›

• Saying Goodbye to my Grandmother, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on October 10, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  Part 1: The Question It is October, the veil is thin the year is waning the leaves are turning I am trying to say goodbye to my grandmother she is dying. I do not know what to say. The leaves… Read More ›

• “First Blood” Celebration by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on October 9, 2018 • ( 18 )

  

  This semester I’m teaching a course titled “The Abrahamic Traditions: Women and Society.”  Because I believe story is one of the best ways to understand a point of view, I use a novel or memoir to accompany each tradition. The… Read More ›

• You Can Make Your Own Rose BOOK REVIEW by Lila Moore

  By Guest Contributor on October 8, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  You Can Make Your Own Rose by Andrea Nicki is a collection of poems infused with the spirit of feminist sensibility, social justice and activism. The poems offer more than mere therapeutic comfort while depicting shamanic-inspired healing rituals and magical… Read More ›

• What to do with Trump? by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on October 7, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  The United States used to get some respect. But now, except for the most gullible Trumpeters, people all over the world are seeing the damage the Troll-in-Chief is doing to our nation with his narcissism and corruption. What can a… Read More ›

• Queen of Pentacles: Sensual Materiality by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on October 6, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Most of us are trying to make it to a place of material comfort where we are living in a way that feels honorable. Some of us feel we could have made better decisions in the past so that we… Read More ›

• Fuck This Sexist Shit by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on October 5, 2018 • ( 58 )

  

  Our whole lives, we are taught to be nice. To be considerate of others. To play fairly. To fess up when we mess up. Do unto others, turn the other cheek, respect your elders, obey the rules. And for what?… Read More ›

• God, Consent, and Freedom by Christy Croft

  By Christy Croft on October 4, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Over the summer, I started at a new job, which I’ve decided I can safely describe as a “dream job” – one to which I can bring my full self, and in which I can use all my gifts and… Read More ›

• Falling Rocks by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on October 3, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  My dad took me to see Bill Cosby in Columbus, Ohio when I was a kid.  We used to listen to a record of him talking, which I could only pretend to find funny even then, but dad liked it and… Read More ›

• La Llorona by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 2, 2018 • ( 20 )

  

  The legend of La Llorona has been a part of Hispanic culture in the Southwest since the days of the conquistadores. Though the tales vary from source to source, the one common thread is that La Llorona is a woman named… Read More ›

• Religions and the Abuse of Women and Girls by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on October 1, 2018 • ( 20 )

  

  At the 2009 meeting of the Parliament of World Religions, former US President Jimmy Carter called the worldwide abuse of girls and women the greatest unaddressed human rights crisis of our time. He stated that this problem is “largely caused… Read More ›

• I Believe Dr. Blasey Ford by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on September 30, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  I had a completely different post that I was going to submit for my FAR contribution this month, but that went out the window on Thursday September 27th with the Supreme Court Justice Nomination hearings of Brett Kavanaugh and the… Read More ›

• The Great Seal: Yom Kippur and The Ancient Practice of Making Incantation Bowls by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on September 29, 2018 • ( 17 )

  

  The liturgy of Yom Kippur states: “On Rosh haShanah it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed: who will live and who will die, who by fire and who by water…”  This prayer refers to a legend mentioned in… Read More ›

• Poem: #MeToo, We Re-Member by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on September 28, 2018 • ( 37 )

  

  I need the grandmothers to help me re-member my rage. Cross stitch. Double knot.  I sew it back on. The raggedy parts I let fly loose when I thought it was OK to not be “so angry.” “Boys will be… Read More ›

• Coming Home to the Sacred by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on September 27, 2018 • ( 15 )

  

  In 1929, my grandmother wrote the word “HOME” in resounding letters across the bottom of a photo of a herself and my grandfather, smiling lovingly and confidently, with my infant mother propped in between them on a rattan chair.  Within… Read More ›

• Pig/Sow – Animal Spirit Guide by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on September 26, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  Pigs, who were called boars in the wild, were the first animals to be domesticated. Pig domestication occurred about 9,000 – 10,000 years ago in two places – central China and Neolithic Anatolia in modern day southwestern Turkey. Around 7,000… Read More ›

• The Cost by John Erickson

  By John Erickson on September 25, 2018 • ( 18 )

  

  Brett Kavanaugh is a piece of shit.

• “What Would Happen If One Woman Told the Truth about Her Life?” by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on September 24, 2018 • ( 20 )

  

  According to poet Muriel Rukeyser, “the world would split open.” This poem accurately describes what many women experienced in consciousness raising in the 1970s and what many women experience today in the #MeToo movement. For many of us the world… Read More ›

• Playing Safe: BDSM & The Ethics of Justice and Care By Angelina Duell

  By Guest Contributor on September 23, 2018 • ( 18 )

  

  From the archives – 9/23/11 – our first FAR year!  This post is written in conjunction with the Feminist Ethics Course Dialogue project sponsored by Claremont School of Theology in the Claremont Lincoln University Consortium,  Claremont Graduate University, and directed by Grace Yia-Hei Kao. It is Wednesday night… Read More ›

• My Life with Goddess (Part Two) by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on September 21, 2018 • ( 10 )

  

  Read Part One here. My way of honoring this Goddess is to be with Her.  I feel Her as my hands when touch Her soil, when I sit on Her body, or when I am walking with Her trees.  I… Read More ›

• Singing up the Dawn, a poem by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on September 20, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  My walk to the river is a joyful entrance into the eternal Now. The water flowing,   crushed fresh mint, trilling bird song desert air so sweet   my body vibrates drumming with all that is… Returning under the bowing… Read More ›

• EcoJustice and Our Relationship with God by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on September 19, 2018 • ( 10 )

  

  This semester I am teaching the course EcoJustice and chose Sallie McFague’s A New Climate for Theology as our foundational text. Something I greatly appreciate about McFague is that she continually calls us to radically redefine our understanding of the Divine… Read More ›

• Longing for (Dis)Connection by Katey Zeh

  By Katey Zeh on September 18, 2018 • ( 15 )

  

  As I type this post, I have another browser window open to track the path of Hurricane Florence due to make landfall in my area sometime later this week. Though I now live a few hours inland, I grew up… Read More ›

• Sophia, Goddess, and Feminist Spirituality: Imagining the Future by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on September 17, 2018 • ( 19 )

  

  Though represented by its detractors as an incursion of paganism into Christianity, and presented as an integrally and intrinsically Christian phenomenon by its supporters, the truth about the Re-Imagining Conference and movement is that it was a product of a… Read More ›

• My Life with Goddess (Part One) by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on September 16, 2018 • ( 15 )

  

  The Goddess is the “All of Creation.”  She is the Creatress and the Created.  She is the life force of all there is.  She is one, whole, and complete.  Before Her, nothing was. She arose from the Great Void, the… Read More ›

• Death and Re-birth through a Project by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on September 15, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  For about a year and a half, I have been working on a collection of poetry that I feel is worth something. I have been writing poetry since I scribed pages hidden between my math textbook when I was 9,… Read More ›

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