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• When the Cranes Come by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on February 19, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  Departure. I stood deep in a toad hole slinging mud at twilight when the sky turned lemon and gold. They arced over my head in pairs, loose aggregations – it seemed like thousands crying out, crossing the river. Ensouled. Spirits… Read More ›

• Making a New Home: It’s Not So Easy by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on February 18, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  I am sitting in my studio apartment with my computer on my lap on a cold, windy, and rainy day in Voutes, Heraklion, Crete. My little dog is curled up asleep, seeing no reason to awake on a day like… Read More ›

• Leading by Mandala by Nurete Brenner and Elizabeth Meacham

  By Guest Contributor on February 17, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  Lake Erie Institute The old myths and images that sustained us in earlier periods are no longer serving us during this time of breakdown of the old and the uncertainty about the future. The lone wolf, the frontiersman, the all-powerful… Read More ›

• FAR: The Bodies of Christ, Broken for You by Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee

  By Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee on February 16, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Years ago, I learned of a small Christian sect that has an unusual sexual practice due to an interpretation of each Christian as the literal ‘bride of Christ.’ Every member of this religion is instructed from the age of 12… Read More ›

• I’m [Not] Batman by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on February 15, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  A little tongue-in-cheek, somewhat punchy, somewhat angry reflection for your consideration. Thank you for reading. Ever have trouble speaking your mind? I do. I do, particularly in situations where I was taught (in all sorts of ways, violent and nonviolent… Read More ›

• I Celebrate Love by Elise M. Edwards

  By Elise M. Edwards on February 14, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  Happy Valentine’s Day!  I know, I know… so many of us do not like this holiday.  It’s too commercialized, we say.  We don’t need card-makers or florists to tell us how or when to show affection.  Some of us don’t… Read More ›

• Devotion by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on February 13, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  There are things that ask to be remembered or, is it that I ask to remember? The everyday enchantments of our living words forming slices of memory. A white squirrel watching from a sycamore tree the sounds of black crows… Read More ›

• Sometimes You Can Go Home Again. . . Because I Did by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on February 12, 2019 • ( 37 )

  

  I am tired and a bit emotionally exhausted, yet hopeful and in calm spirits as I have returned from my 8 months of traveling through Europe. I left in a rather dramatic impulsivity with little planning other than to leave… Read More ›

• Just When We Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse, It Did by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on February 11, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  Like many of you I have been following discussions of the revelation that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam dressed in blackface or as a member of the Ku Klux Klan when he was a medical student. It was reported that Northam… Read More ›

• On Tetzaveh by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on February 10, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  The Torah parshah for this week is Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20 – 30:10).  Mostly it describes the priesthood, both of Aaron and his sons. It details how they should be consecrated, what they should wear, the difference between the garb of… Read More ›

• Reclaiming Sacred Music by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on February 9, 2019 • ( 28 )

  

  Women Singing Earth by Mary Southard Here is a hymn of praise, a beautiful and intimate piece meant to be sung. Reader, I invite you to guess the author of this text and the sacred figure to whom this work is… Read More ›

• Past Transgressions by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on February 8, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat in the state of Virginia, has many people calling for his resignation after a picture from a 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced showing what some people assert to be Northam wearing blackface or a KKK… Read More ›

• I Shall Make Prayer of It by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on February 7, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  This is a poem I published almost ten years ago. It is as if I wrote it yesterday.  The image is more or less of the same sentiment as the poem. I publish these again here in memory of my father.   ~~~~… Read More ›

• Generosity and Community: the Alternative Worldview of Women’s Ritual Dances, Part 2 by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on February 6, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  Starhawk describes the work of her Reclaiming collective as the creation of ‘spaces of refuge from a harsh and often hostile world, safe places where people can heal and regenerate, renew our energies and learn new skills.’[i] These words also… Read More ›

• For Love of Trees by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on February 5, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Yesterday I dreamed that I discovered a bird’s nest that was hidden in the center of an evergreen tree. This little dream moved me deeply because this is the time of year I celebrate my love and gratitude for all… Read More ›

• The Mud and the Lotus: What India Is Teaching Me by Vanessa Soriano

  By Vanessa Soriano on February 4, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  About 5 years ago, I began a consistent yoga practice.  Right around the same time, I started a PhD program in Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies where I eventually wrote my dissertation on Women’s Spiritual Leadership. … Read More ›

• Seeking Enlightenment? Let’s Try Endarkenment by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on February 3, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  In the version of the calendar I follow, February 1 is the true beginning of spring. That’s because early February is when we can see the light coming back. We know spring is really coming. February opens with a holiday/holy… Read More ›

• Generosity and Community: the Alternative Worldview of Women’s Ritual Dance, Part 1 by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on February 2, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  My life’s work with traditional women’s circle dances of Eastern Europe and the Near East has been a natural interweaving of feminism, activism and Goddess spirituality. In more than thirty years of experience, my students and I have gained valuable… Read More ›

• Find Your Warrior Archetype, Sisters: We are in the Fight of our Lives by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on February 1, 2019 • ( 18 )

  

  I read a news story this week about dozens of children sex trafficked at an auto show in Detroit. I read about a young man getting no jail time for sexually assaulting a six year old girl… sex traffickers targeting… Read More ›

• Holly Near’s Music and a Holistic Feminist Perspective of Peace by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on January 31, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  It’s hard for me to be dignified and peaceful sometimes. To produce and sacrifice without rewards, making sure I’m not “sacrificing” in a way that quells my truth and power, making sure I look at dignity in a liberating way…. Read More ›

• Compassion to the Why by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on January 30, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  This last month, I’ve found myself doing work on what I call, Compassion to the Why. That is understanding why. Asking why. Getting why. Having compassion, for, why. Why is this important, you ask? Because getting to the ‘why,’ is… Read More ›

• The Race-ing of Innocence: Calling All Feminists to Converse by Marcia Mount Shoop

  By Marcia Mount Shoop on January 29, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  Well over 100,000 people and counting have read a blog post called “Nothing But the Truth: A Word to White America After the Recent Unpleasantness in Washington DC” that I wrote. Going on 400 commenters have weighed in on my website…. Read More ›

• Receiving, Giving, Reciprocating vs. Nonintervention: Two Different Models for Environmental Ethics by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on January 28, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  “Gifts from the earth or from each other establish a particular relationship, an obligation of sorts to give, to receive, to reciprocate.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer The notion of a gift economy is at the heart of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding… Read More ›

• The Goddesses Ereshkigal and Epona and Their Help in My Grief by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on January 27, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  In November, my paternal grandmother passed. She was five days away from her 93rd birthday. As I was/am going through the grieving process, I started to actively recall all the studies I have done regarding death and grieving practices across… Read More ›

• Eve is the Hero of the Garden of Eden, Part 2 by Janet Rudolph

  By Guest Contributor on January 26, 2019 • ( 21 )

  

  The serpent in the Bible is treated as Eve’s partner in crime, a malevolent seducer who is responsible for humankind’s expulsion from paradise. But did you know there are serpents who figure positively in the Bible? There are serpent priests,… Read More ›

• Eve is the Hero of the Garden of Eden, Part 1 by Janet Rudolph

  By Guest Contributor on January 25, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  She is a tree of life to those who embrace her and those who lay hold of her are blessed. Proverbs 3:18 (Berean Study Bible) Eve’s story, as it has been passed onto us from the Bible, makes Her responsible… Read More ›

• Women’s March 2019–Orange County, California! by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on January 24, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  As I have done in 2017 and 2018, I am showcasing photos of protest and resilience from The Women’s March, which began as a response to the “election” of 2016, and was a show of solidarity of women, especially in response… Read More ›

• Crow/Raven – A Messenger of Magic and Mystery by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on January 23, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  Caw! Caw! calls Crow. Gronk! Gronk! honks Raven. Magic and mystery are in the air. Ancient cultures saw birds as spiritual messengers, whose gift of flight gave them access to the spirit realm.

• Tree of Life: The Festival of the Trees in an Age of Treefall by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on January 22, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  Almost every day, I walk in Central Park.  There are certain trees there I’ve come to know: the gnarled cherry trees by the reservoir, the bending willows and tall bald cypress by the pond, the sycamores that drop their bark… Read More ›

• Iroquoian Women: Power Held and Shared by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on January 21, 2019 • ( 19 )

  

  According to Barbara Alice Mann, author of Iroquoian Women, women were at the center of a matrilineal Iroquoian society that could be called (though she does not call it that) an “egalitarian matriarchy.” As in other egalitarian matriarchies, including those… Read More ›

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