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• Elena and the Reindeer Goddess by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on December 28, 2022 • ( 13 )

  

  The mad pre-Christmas rush of activity has passed and we find ourselves again in the quiet, dark and cold of winter. Winter Solstice, the longest night and shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, occurred last week. With… Read More ›

• Solstice Stories : Fire and Ice by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 27, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  The winter solstice is almost upon us just as the first heavy snow buries the forest and house under 28 inches of snow. I never look forward to this shift into the cold, ice, and snow, although I do wrap… Read More ›

• Legacy of Carol P. Christ: What I Celebrate at Christmas

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on December 26, 2022 • ( 3 )

  This was originally posted December 28, 2020 Though I have not been Christian for many years, I love to decorate my house for the holidays. I have many decorations that I have collected over the years, including a Hummel angel… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Christmastime for the Self by John Erickson

  By Dr. John Erickson on December 25, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  This was originally posted on December 25, 2018 We’ve all been there. Sitting around the tree watching the kids open presents.  Attempting to enjoy a holiday meal with extended and immediate family that you may or may not have traveled… Read More ›

• “Our Lady of the Shards”: Icons for the Buried and Rising by Lauren Raine MFA

  By Guest Contributor on December 24, 2022 • ( 9 )

  

  When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women’s art that was out there being totally ignored, and it was going to be me. And of course the ideas and the discoveries about… Read More ›

• A Fable for the Season by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on December 23, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  Once upon a time there was a person who only saw themselves in the mirror—even if someone else was passing by in the background, and they certainly never saw the shadows of all the people who had helped them in… Read More ›

• Deconstructing and Reconstructing Love by Chasity Jones

  By Guest Contributor on December 22, 2022 • ( 7 )

  

  Note: This is based on a podcast which can be heard here. What is love? What’s love got to do with pain and suffering? Are they related? Pain and love? Must one always be present with the other? In this… Read More ›

• We Endure Abuse to Survive, Part 2 by Karen Tate

  By Guest Contributor on December 21, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  Part 1 was posted on December 18. You can read it here. But what was the straw that broke the camel’s back in my case? What hurled me into that dark abyss I described earlier? The paranoia, the anxiety, the nightmares… Read More ›

• Saying Goodbye (Refuge), Part 2 by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 20, 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  Part 1 was posted last week. You can read it here. When I first came to this area 40 years ago I was ‘called’ to land about 15 minutes from here. That first summer I was out in the field… Read More ›

• Legacy of Carol P. Christ: On Believing Things That Are Not True

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on December 19, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  This was originally posted on August 19, 2019 (when the former guy was President. Although former guy isn’t in power now, Carol’s points are still operative in our world.) Anyone who is following American politics these days knows that the… Read More ›

• We Endure Abuse to Survive, Part 1 by Karen Tate

  By Guest Contributor on December 18, 2022 • ( 10 )

  I considered myself savvy and educated and an advocate for peace, fairness and equality.  I thought abuse was something that happened to others, not me.  But it was happening to me.  It had happened to me and I didn’t see… Read More ›

• You No Longer Get to Tell Me What is Good and What is Evil:  A Story of Krampus and Yule by Caryn MacGrandle

  By Caryn MacGrandle on December 17, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  One of the members of my app put a Yule event in Tuscambia, Alabama on the divine feminine app. The description is as follows: A FREE EVENT! Saturday December 3 from 1-9pm. Come out and enjoy the Celtic and Mystical Vibes… Read More ›

• Una Hora de Vida, Es Vida! by Xochitl Alvizo

  By Xochitl Alvizo on December 16, 2022 • ( 9 )

  

  I learned, recently, that this is a common phrase among my family members – “an hour of life, is life.” I remember the first time I heard my mom use the phrase, not more than a few years ago, I… Read More ›

• Ode to Seeds by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on December 15, 2022 • ( 11 )

  

  “In this is all that is.”  Julian of Norwich (while purportedly holding a seed in her hand) – 14th century “Even if I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today.” Martin Luther Have… Read More ›

• The Crone of Winter, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on December 14, 2022 • ( 16 )

  

  Just for right now, let the swirling soften.Exhale into the day,wherever you are,whatever is happening.Allow a cloak of comfortto settle across your shouldersand enfold youwith peace and restoration.Draw up strength from the earthbeneath your feet.Settle one hand on your bellyand… Read More ›

• Saying Goodbye (Refuge), Part 1 by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 13, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

   Leaving chores behind I bundled up and grabbed a trowel and drove between still waters to my beloved forest. The premature snow had melted, cracked ice created fantastic glittering patterns in shallow waters informing me that it was probably too… Read More ›

• The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Meeting the Windigo

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on December 12, 2022 • ( 2 )

  Towards the end of Braiding Sweetgrass, mother, biologist, and member of the Citizen Potawami Nation Robin Wall Kimmerer sets out at the end of winter to visit a forest area near her home that she considers hers not in name… Read More ›

• Vayeishev: A Feminist Reflection on the Women in Joseph’s life and Dreams by Ivy Helman.

  By Ivy Helman on December 11, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  This week’s Torah portion is Vayeishev, Genesis 37:1-40:23.   The portion covers too much information to address it adequately in one post.  Therefore, in this post, I will examine, from a feminist perspective, Joseph, the women in his life, and… Read More ›

• The Dark Heart of Winter

  By Mary Sharratt on December 10, 2022 • ( 10 )

  

  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 England,… Read More ›

• Carol P. Christ: Weaver of Visions by Beth Bartlett

  By Beth Bartlett on December 9, 2022 • ( 9 )

  

  Author’s Note: Today’s post is the 4000th FAR blog post!  I first became aware of the Feminism and Religion blog when participating in a symposium honoring the life and work of Carol P. Christ in October 2021. I was inspired… Read More ›

• Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete – Reborn! by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on December 8, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  Thirty years ago, Carol P. Christ founded her Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete, which she wrote about in her book A Serpentine Path: Mysteries of the Goddess (original 1995 title Odyssey with the Goddess) and in numerous posts on this site over the years. She… Read More ›

• From the Archives: It’s Time to Revisit A Christmas Carol By Barbara Ardinger

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

  This was originally posted on January 3, 2021 Scrooge … became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew…. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but… Read More ›

• The Ancestor Story by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 6, 2022 • ( 7 )

  

  During the last few years I have spent hours listening to the haunting cries of Sandhill cranes, awaiting them at the river, stunned each time as I glimpsed a flock float to the ground, great gray wings extended to break… Read More ›

• Legacy of Carol P. Christ:“Ursula Niebuhr, Ursula Niebuhr”: Unacknowledged Co-author of Great Works of Theology?

  By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on December 5, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  This was originally posted on August 26, 2019. It fits in with our new project of Unsung Heroines. A few days ago while watching the movie The Wife, I kept hearing the words “Ursula Niebuhr, Ursula Niebuhr,” in my mind…. Read More ›

• FRAME THE CHAOS by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on December 4, 2022 • ( 12 )

  No matter how much we may want absolute control over our own lives and destiny, most of us realize that’s just not possible. Life itself is chaotic—both on a global and individual level. War, famine, drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, pandemics, poverty, sickness, ignorance,… Read More ›

• Willful Women, Feminist Killjoys, and Jesus: Reflections on Sara Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life by Liz Cooledge Jenkins

  By Liz Cooledge Jenkins on December 3, 2022 • ( 9 )

  I’ve been thinking about willful women and feminist killjoys—two main guiding images in feminist scholar Sara Ahmed’s book Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press 2017). The idea of the willful woman (or willful girl, or willful person) is something… Read More ›

• Re-Anointing the Body by Eline Kieft

  By elinekieft on December 2, 2022 • ( 9 )

  

  How ‘at one’ are you with your body, and what reasons might there be if your body-sense got separate(d) from your soul-sense? This piece starts with the difference between feminine and masculine spirituality, and introduces a few reasons why living… Read More ›

• ClubQ…. #702 by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on December 1, 2022 • ( 9 )

  

  I have written about this before And, no doubt, I will write about it again. This morning we woke to the news of Another mass shooting, a mass shooting is defined as four or more people shot in a single… Read More ›

• The Problem of Jehosheba: Reading One Biblical Character in Two Different Feminist Ways by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on November 30, 2022 • ( 10 )

  

  Tucked away in II Kings 11 is the story of a mother-daughter feud that is personal, political, and ultimately fatal. Jehu, a charismatic military commander, is anointed by Elisha as the next king of the northern kingdom of Israel. Jehu kills… Read More ›

• Aging and the Ancestral Dark? by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on November 29, 2022 • ( 19 )

  

  Unfortunately, an inner darkness has been with me all fall hiding in the corners of my mind and disturbing my body creating headaches and stomach troubles during the day. Although I attempt to protect myself from a culture that I… Read More ›

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