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• Vigil by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 6, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  Preface: I am submitting this story for publication because it occurred during the Christian Holy Week and because it involves me, a woman who follows her dreams… That I did so in this instance was important in ways that I… Read More ›

• THE DIVINE DRAMA AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF DEATH* by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 5, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  In Greece the liturgies of lent and especially of the week before Easter are known as the “divine drama,” in Greek theodrama.  This may refer to the “drama” of the capture, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus and to the suffering of… Read More ›

• Thrice-Born Athena, Pt. 3 by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on April 4, 2021 • ( 25 )

  

  Note: If you’ve been reading Athena’s story for the past two days (link to Part 2 here), you know what’s happened to her before her third birth. You’ve read her version as I heard it in my mind and wrote… Read More ›

• Thrice-Born Athena, Pt. 2 by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on April 3, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  Read Part 1 here. Note: This part of the story concerns what nearly everybody who has read the mythology knows about the Goddess of Wisdom. But what you’ve read in, say, Edith Hamilton or Robert Graves is the patriarchal version…. Read More ›

• Thrice-Born Athena: A Secret History (Part 1) by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on April 2, 2021 • ( 16 )

  

  Note: Inspired by Mary Sharratt’s excellent post on February 13 about the heroine’s journey and by Elizabeth Cunningham’s beautiful novel The Wild Mother (who is Lilith), I took a dive into my archives and found this story about Athena, which… Read More ›

• Feminist Holy Week Vaginal Christology Daily Devotional — Part 2 by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on April 1, 2021 • ( 15 )

  

  See here to read Part I of the Devotional. Friday: Thought for the day: The Roman authorities executed Jesus for sedition because he posed a threat to their hegemony: their wealth and their oppressive, imperial domination system of exploiting others… Read More ›

• Red on Blue by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 30, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  I dreamed her name not long before light – Pages fell out of a story written in blood. Every spring the words repeat as mist rises over the river. Harsh white light burns violet blue. She changes everything she touches… Read More ›

• An Untitled Poem for Unanswerable Questions by Eva Espinoza

  By Guest Contributor on March 29, 2021 • ( 15 )

  

  Thinking about the discourse between spiritualists and victims of harmThinking about accountability and prison abolitionThinking about how white supremacy tells us people are disposableThat they–that we, don’t matterThinking about “don’t speak ill of the dead”Thinking about “honor your ancestors”Thinking about… Read More ›

• Feminist Holy Week Vaginal Christology Devotional, Part 1 by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on March 28, 2021 • ( 15 )

  

  Monday: Thought for the day: In Matthew 21, Jesus rides a mother donkey, her baby beside her, into Jerusalem in blatant condemnation and contrast to the militaristic entry of Roman military leaders and soldiers on war horses through a different… Read More ›

• I Heard my Own Siren Song, and Followed It (a poem) by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on March 26, 2021 • ( 15 )

  

  They didn’t know I was a mermaid.                That I had a siren song.                That I could lure, and I could kill.                And that I would eventually                because – I was a mermaid. When my father tried… Read More ›

• Reflections on Miriam’s Cup by Rabbi Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on March 25, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  For many years, I’ve had a Miriam’s Cup on my Passover seder table, next to the Cup of Elijah. Our cup of Elijah is a kiddush cup belonging to my great-grandfather Joseph Frankel and inscribed with his name. Our cup… Read More ›

• Rabbit, The Feminine, and The Moon by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on March 24, 2021 • ( 13 )

  

  Rabbit plays in tall grasses, dances in the moonlight, nibbles on nature’s greens, then freezes if danger is sensed. With a thump as a warning, rabbit hops away in a flash, disappearing down its rabbit hole.

• Lily B and Messages From the Beyond by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 23, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  The night before last I had a dream that has stayed with me. My dreams rise out of my body to teach and to comfort me so I pay close attention. I had recently written tributes for two men, Lynn… Read More ›

• Out with the Old: In with the New by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on March 22, 2021 • ( 20 )

  

  A few days ago, a Greek friend told me she was going to bring holy water from a church so that we could bless my house. Ever since I moved to my new apartment in Heraklion, I have intended to… Read More ›

• Aren’t We All Divine Children? by Janet MaiKa’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on March 18, 2021 • ( 23 )

  

  Consider the following four birth stories: A high priestess became pregnant in a manner that was forbidden in her society. She gave birth to a baby boy. Fearing for her child’s life, she fashioned a basket of rushes and cast… Read More ›

• Anorexia Nervosa Take 2 by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on March 17, 2021 • ( 29 )

  

  This past year (2020) has been a year of tremendous upheaval and unwelcome change for most of us due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the second time in my life (first time I was in my 40s)… Read More ›

• High Desert Sojourn by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 16, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  I longed to re-visit the desert – my first journey left me with a longing for wide open spaces, a blue sky dome, a bowl of stars at night, so to return 25 years later was to complete an unfinished… Read More ›

• Spill that Tea: Let’s talk about Harry and Meghan by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on March 15, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with all things Royal. On March 7th, the world sat enraptured as two members of the British Royal Family had a tell-all interview about their experiences over the last… Read More ›

• On the Religious Nature of Connection in Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on March 14, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  For the past two months, I have been exploring the religious elements of Star Trek: Discovery.  Both seasons one and two have considerable religious elements.  Of course that depends on how one exactly defines religion as well as how one… Read More ›

• Embracing Darkness by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on March 12, 2021 • ( 20 )

  

    I have long struggled with winter. I grew in Minnesota where winters were long and brutally cold. I remember hauling myself through hip-deep snowdrifts on my walk to elementary school and that was in the suburbs! The North of… Read More ›

• A Shared Bridge by Lou Hartmann and Diana

  By Guest Contributor on March 10, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  A fellow college classmate, Diana, and I wrote this poem together as we were inspired by the likes of Adrienne Rich and Sara Ahmed. We wanted to touch on the animosity between trans folk and cis women that often exists… Read More ›

• Wings by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 9, 2021 • ( 19 )

  

  Early in January I discovered a chickadee with a broken wing floundering in the snow. I rescued him, providing him with a safe haven in the house, hoping he might recover use of his wing. For the first couple of… Read More ›

• What’s Done Is Really Done by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on March 7, 2021 • ( 13 )

  

  This is an encore performance of a satire I wrote in November 2019, when I thought Trump’s sociopathic behavior was at its height. Little did I know. Little did we know. Only a year later, following the 2020 election, we… Read More ›

• Toadwise: A Tale for a Life Lover – Part II by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 6, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  Read Part I here… In the Americas I found more recent Indigenous mythology on the Toad as Goddess. Tlaltecuhtli is a Pre–Columbian (1200–1519) goddess belonging to the Mexica. Although Tlaltecuhtli’s name is masculine modern scholars interpret this toad figure as… Read More ›

• Toadwise: A Tale for a Life Lover – Part I by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 5, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  Last night I was thinking about the giant western toad that is living in my garden when I had a peculiar thought: Write a story about the Toad and an Old Woman and call it A Tale for a Life… Read More ›

• Breathe with me by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on March 4, 2021 • ( 22 )

  

  Breathe with me. I know. I know. I understand. Breathe with me anyway. It hurts. It’s scary. It’s horrible. It’s relentless. I know. Just breathe. Every time we breathe out, our bodies release things we do not want. So breathe… Read More ›

• Grown Little Girl, Grow Little Girl by Chasity Jones Selenga

  By Guest Contributor on March 2, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  I have newly found myself a wife and in the throes of motherhood. In many feminist circles, I have encountered anti-family and anti-wifehood sentiments. The understanding is that to be a wife, and, to be a wife that chooses to… Read More ›

• The largest protest in the world: India’s Farmers Protest by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on February 28, 2021 • ( 11 )

  

  So much has happened since my last post. From the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the GameStop Investment, the military coup of Myanmar, the 2nd Impeachment Trial and Republican Acquittal of Donald Trump, a catastrophic… Read More ›

• God’s Womb by Joyce Zonana

  By Joyce Zonana on February 27, 2021 • ( 27 )

  

  The first time I came across the phrase, I thought I must be making a mistake. “Que Dieu l’enveloppe dans sa matrice,” the passage read in French, “May God’s womb enfold her.” or possibly, “May God enfold her in His womb.” His womb?

• How I Learned to Love Snakes (a poem) by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on February 26, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  Can I recall a time when my resilience surprised me? My mother always said, “If you feel bad, go out into the garden and eat worms.” Sigh. We didn’t have a garden. My resilience. My head hits the counter, as… Read More ›

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