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• Bringing About the Revolution by Xochitl Alvizo

  By Xochitl Alvizo on December 16, 2018 • ( 17 )

  

  Happy day friends. It’s Sunday – maybe you have a day off from your income-making labor, maybe you’re home with the kiddos working more than usual since they have no school, or maybe it’s a day you have all to… Read More ›

• Mary Daly and Simone de Beauvoir: Sister Diagnosticians by Xochitl Alvizo

  By Xochitl Alvizo on December 15, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  Mary Daly still causes me awe. I think about the way she was so keenly able to diagnose the Catholic Church’s collusion in creating, sustaining, the oppressive structures that directly impact women (and men, as she always affirmed). Mary Daly… Read More ›

• Crow and The Pornographic Gaze by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 14, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  Once she believed that it was her fault they came on to her, that she owed them something… They owned her? Secretly the girl was pleased because any kind of attention was better than none, or being so “different” –… Read More ›

• We Might Need to Die by Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee

  By Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee on December 13, 2018 • ( 14 )

  

  Last week was the first week of Advent – in my tradition, the week of lighting a candle for Hope. This year has felt uniquely intense as I enter into Advent. Hope, even as headline after headline continues to warn… Read More ›

• Honoring the Completion of the Year, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on December 12, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  “Beginnings and endings are so very sacred, to give honor to all that has transpired, every experience, every joy, every pain, is a doorway to the magical. Hold your entire year between your hands, every day, every thought, every breath…. Read More ›

• A Moment of Change in Our Church by Janice Poss

  By Guest Contributor on December 11, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  On September 12, 2018, Roman Catholic Bishop David O’Connell helped move the Episcopate into a new day. A healing Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Claremont, California was celebrated for the victims of clergy sex abuse. They… Read More ›

• This Is What Rape Culture Looks Like in “Great” Art by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on December 10, 2018 • ( 22 )

  

  Warning: contains images of rape portrayed through the lens of the objectifying pornographic male gaze When I reflected on the discovery of a rape fresco from ancient Pompeii that depicted Leda and the swan, I did not mention that the… Read More ›

• Vayigash: Lessons from Joseph’s Behavior by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on December 9, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Parshah Vayigash covers Genesis 44:18 to 47:27.  It involves the reunification of Joseph with his brothers and his father, the immigration of Jacob’s entire family to Egypt and Joseph successfully leading Egypt through famine.  In other words, the parshah provides… Read More ›

• Part 4: I Was Brainwashed to Believe I Wasn’t Human. Now I’m on a Mission Against that Cult by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on December 7, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Disclaimer/Trigger Warning: This post includes content about rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse, graphic sexual. In Part 1 of this story, I introduce a discussion of Johan Galtung’s theory of cultural violence as it relates to my experience as a young… Read More ›

• Broken Pot by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 6, 2018 • ( 16 )

  

  When Emmy handed me the pot I held it gently in my palm, marveling over its rounded shape, the warm earth tones, the sparkling mica speckled through the smooth clay. “It’s broken,” she said simply as I turned the small… Read More ›

• Time’s Up for Bullies by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on December 5, 2018 • ( 20 )

  

  The Virgin Mary says #Time’s Up for Bullies: illumination from a 13th century manuscript Bullying is rife in our society and it’s not just school kids who have to deal with it. Bullies flourish in the work place, in academia,… Read More ›

• Clerical Male Mess! by Janice L. Poss

  By Guest Contributor on December 4, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  “I am sorry!” “I am guilty of sex abuse” “I have hurt many young children!” “I have ruined lives!” “We are sorry for hiding sex abuse in the Church!” “We are criminals!” “We want to make amends!” We, in the… Read More ›

• This Is What Rape Culture Looks Like: Then and Now by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on December 3, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  I was not paying full attention when I heard a news report on CNN saying that archaeologists had uncovered an “ancient erotic fresco” in Pompeii. Hmm, I thought to myself, this story deserves further investigation. I had heard whispers about… Read More ›

• Celebrating the Winter Solstice by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on December 2, 2018 • ( 15 )

  

  Even though Jesus was born during the reign of Augustus, first Roman emperor, the empire didn’t celebrate that birth until three centuries later when his birth date was moved to mid-winter to match the birth date of the sun god… Read More ›

• Navigating Social Space as Power-Struggle, Pt. 2 by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on December 1, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Disclaimer/Trigger Warning: This post contains details about unwanted sexual advances. Read Part I here. After Sicily, I went to the English countryside for an intended two weeks in a work exchange. A retired, but part-time, lecturer of Greek and Latin… Read More ›

• Navigating Social Space as Power-Struggle, Pt. 1 by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on November 30, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  The space we take up by our bodies is an element of the sacred. As we move from bed in waking, through our houses and then out into the world, if any of that movement places a woman in close… Read More ›

• Bear Spirit Guide by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on November 28, 2018 • ( 18 )

  

  Bear has been important to human mythology and story for thousands of years. Some feel that Bear is the oldest European deity, as bones and skulls of bears have been found lovingly arranged on niches found in caves across Europe…. Read More ›

• Jewish Hair, Witch Hair, and the Problem of Identity by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on November 27, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  This is a time of increased vulnerability for many minority populations in the United States: people of color, immigrants, LGBT people, native peoples. The policies and rhetoric of the current administration have left all these groups exposed to hostility.  Women… Read More ›

• The Gifts of Life: Do We Remember? by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on November 26, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Strawberries shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet. A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward, you… Read More ›

• Unpacking the Midterm Elections by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on November 25, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  As the dust is settling, with the mixture of finishing counting ballots and races being conceded, the true realities of what happened in the 2018 Midterm Elections is taking concrete form. From the earliest hours of November 6, numbers showed that… Read More ›

• And the Pies! Ongoing Grateful Thanks for Tradition by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on November 24, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  In November 2017 I wrote about pie baking.  And in November 2015 I also wrote about pie baking. In November 2016, I was destroyed by the “election” and wrote a post in November of that year “For Strong Women” just… Read More ›

• My Original Uncultured Mother by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on November 23, 2018 • ( 15 )

  In the earliest of times, I believe humans did not see themselves as separate from all that was around them.  All of life was interdependent.  I see this in my own practice today.  When we are born, we are born… Read More ›

• Compassion. Simply Be. by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on November 22, 2018 • ( 16 )

  

  From November 1-7, I attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto, Canada. With a myriad of religions and spiritual traditions represented, this was my third Parliament. Inspiring people from all over the planet gathered to teach, to listen,… Read More ›

• Identity Politics by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on November 21, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  This past week my daughter, Sarah and I had a conversation about God: Sarah: Dad says God is a myth. He doesn’t exist. Me: Well none of us really know who God is because we’re humans. And besides, God is… Read More ›

• Witness by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on November 20, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  Witness   It was dark when I first heard Her whooing overhead bearing witness, ushering in the First of the Harvest Moons. The seasonal wheel turning towards ripe fruit and swelling seeds. Summer’s Bounty. This goddess is cloaked in feathery… Read More ›

• Let Us Proclaim the God Who Bleeds Now by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on November 19, 2018 • ( 10 )

  

  we need a god who bleeds now we need a god who bleeds now a god whose wounds are not some small male vengeance some pitiful concession to humility a desert swept with dryin marrow in honor of the lord… Read More ›

• The Hate U Give by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on November 18, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  These days I live in a perpetual state of simmering outrage given the popular support of the “goings on” and happenings within our current administration.  The lies, the deceit, the xenophobia, the racism, the misogyny, the homophobia, the anti-intellectualism—things that… Read More ›

• I <3 California by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on November 17, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  It’s Friday. I drive down PCH, Highway 1, at five-o-clock in the morning on my way to the airport. I left early and avoided the evacuation traffic. The sky is pitch black—not just dark, but black. Smoke cloaks the sky,… Read More ›

• Women’s Ritual Dances and the Nine Touchstones of Goddess Spirituality – Part Four by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on November 16, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  In Rebirth of the Goddess, Carol P Christ offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess Spirituality as an alternative to the Ten Commandments. The Nine Touchstones are intended to inform all our relationships, whether personal, communal, social, or political.[1] In this four-part… Read More ›

• Women’s Ritual Dances and the Nine Touchstones of Goddess Spirituality-Part Three by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on November 15, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  In Rebirth of the Goddess, Carol P Christ offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess Spirituality as an alternative to the Ten Commandments. The Nine Touchstones are intended to inform all our relationships, whether personal, communal, social, or political.[1] In this series… Read More ›

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