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• Surviving My Recovery by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on June 13, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  For the past fourteen months, I’ve been going from doctor to doctor trying to figure out what ails me.  Specialists I’ve seen included wonderfully competent people immersed in their individual disciplines of nephrology, cardiology, rheumatology, and neurology.  At long last,… Read More ›

• Nourishing Your Caring, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on June 12, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  Take time to nourish your caring. It is needed. Last month it was raining heavily on a Saturday morning and I spent time coloring letters to fairies with my younger children and baking a cake. Before I knew it, the… Read More ›

• Re-Imaging Three Marys by Janet Sunderland

  By Guest Contributor on June 11, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  The recent #metoo movement, along with young women entering Congress, has pointed to an important question. Why, in this 21st Century, are these achievements remarkable? Why has it taken so long for women to be recognized as capable for these… Read More ›

• How Can Change Happen If We Can’t Imagine It First? by Darla Graves Palmer

  By Guest Contributor on June 10, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  More than one hundred years ago, a small group of women joined together and decided to create their own village, one rooted in relationship and guided by spirit. They weren’t the first such women-led town in the country – there… Read More ›

• Coming Home to Spring by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on June 9, 2019 • ( 24 )

  

  The older I become the more I appreciate Nature as she is, Nature the Creatrix of the Earth. Nature creating without human intervention. The cycles of life and death are so intimately intertwined and never more evident than in the… Read More ›

• Missing from History: Women Composers by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on June 8, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

    Clara Schumann   To a large extent, women have been written out of history. Any surviving record of female accomplishment is often trivialized or dismissed. This seems especially true in the male-dominated world of classical music. When asked to… Read More ›

• Patriarchy is a pedophile – Why else does “feminine” always mean “sexualized little girl”? **TW rape** by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on June 7, 2019 • ( 23 )

  

  I used to love to wear makeup. My mother (Goddess rest her wonderful soul) wore a ton of makeup; she was known as a beauty – compared by friends and acquaintances to Elizabeth Taylor her entire life. So when I… Read More ›

• Grounding My Love by Xochitl Alvizo

  By Xochitl Alvizo on June 6, 2019 • ( 21 )

  

  I love living in a second-story apartment. Having a view of Los Angeles, of the palm trees, the expansive sky, the distant mountains, and the city lights of downtown, makes life feel bigger, more full of possibilities. In the struggle… Read More ›

• Musings on the Triune God by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on June 5, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  This past term I had the opportunity to teach courses on the Christian doctrines of Christology and Trinity.  My first inclination was to approach these doctrines from the perspective of their historical development. For, I find the historical study of… Read More ›

• Climate Change as a Socio-Spiritual Feminist Issue (Or 10 ways to be a leader in the era of climate change) by Nurete Brenner

  By Guest Contributor on June 4, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  Authorities have observed that climate change is a feminist issue because it disproportionately affects women. Among these, the United Nations has gone further to acknowledge that climate change is a feminist issue because women are on the forefront of adopting… Read More ›

• Lessons Mothers Might Teach Their Daughters by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on June 3, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  There might be lots of lessons to consider. These lessons might have holes, for I’m not a wise sage, and I’m not really even a mother. As I am a couple of years from 40, I think about what lessons… Read More ›

• Outtadeway-O: A Found Goddess of Public Transportation (well, you asked for Her last month) by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on June 2, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Tall, hearty. sometimes pushy, and usually very loud, Outtadeway-O is easily able to propagate and multiply Herself so that we can find Her in crowded airport terminals, at bus and subway stops, and just about anywhere people are traveling from… Read More ›

• Islam is my Louvre – Part II by Valentina Khan

  By Valentina Khan on June 1, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  I was once asked “why do I stay Muslim”? That was the question prompt, and it begged an answer…Reason #2: I believe Islam has vagueness in the Quran (I answered Reason 1 and 2 yesterday…) What do I mean by all… Read More ›

• Islam is my Louvre by Valentina Khan

  By Valentina Khan on May 31, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  I was once asked “why do I stay Muslim”? That was the question prompt, and it begged an answer. A deep, well thought out, articulate, and concise answer. Shamefully, at that time in my life, I was stumped. I was… Read More ›

• Advocating Respect for Goddess by Susan de Gaia

  By Guest Contributor on May 30, 2019 • ( 26 )

  

  I served as general editor for the recently published Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History (2018/19 ABC-CLIO). It was an honor and a pleasure to work with a hundred and thirty wonderful scholars, many with… Read More ›

• Falling Down and Going Under by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on May 29, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  I have been traveling across country during the past week from New Mexico to Maine, leaving one “home” for another wondering what the word even means for me these days. I suspect the word doesn’t refer to a place, but… Read More ›

• Spring Blossoming: The Holy Orchard as Goddess by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on May 28, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  Every year when the cherries, pears, plums, and apple trees begin to bloom, I go out walking.  I look for every spot in my vicinity where white and pink blossoms are blooming in exquisite profusion like foam on an ocean…. Read More ›

• Holy Women of Pride: Queer Spirituality and Worship Resources by Angela Yarber

  By Angela Yarber on May 27, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  As we enter Pride month, do you ever finding yourself wishing there were unabashedly queer resources to aid clergy and people of faith in nurturing spirituality, celebrating queer families, or offering liturgies that celebrated revolutionary queer women? Look no farther!… Read More ›

• Game of Thrones is Over, Now What? By Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on May 26, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  This post contains spoilers on the Game of Thrones series   For many, this past week saw the MASSIVE HBO hit, Game of Thrones, air its last episode. Thousands were left unsatisfied with the ending and even the entire last… Read More ›

• Birds, Their Song Stills My Heart by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on May 25, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  Bluejay I see you perched on the tree checking the perimeter for cats lurking. The feeder below, inviting you down but you, ever cautious, make sure that none are about. Suddenly the sparrows swarm in, eagerly eating the seed offered…. Read More ›

• Photo Essay–Long Beach, California by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on May 24, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  Long Beach Pride 2019 50 YEARS OF PRIDE CELEBRATING THE STONEWALL REBELLION of 1969! **All photos by: Marie Cartier** See the photo essay from last year’s Pride week-end here. And the photo essay from Pride 2017 here.

• In the Meantime, I Thrive by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on May 23, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Let me tell you, the dating world is a whole different universe. Especially for a woman my age and who do what I do. I am sure many reading this can relate. Here are some comments I have received from… Read More ›

• Magical Forests by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on May 22, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

  The forest calls me. I long for her lush coolness, her sheltering trees, her world filled with life.

• The Gift by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on May 21, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  We drifted through the green hungrily absorbing plant souls, each twig, flower, and tree has her own story to tell…   Such a joyful way for me to spend a ‘mother’s day.’ Being with him when family extends sharp claws… Read More ›

• Women’s Bodies and the Bible by Janet Rudolph

  By Guest Contributor on May 20, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  Trigger Alert:  The bible on its face is quite violent to women. Amidst the ugliness that is American politics in general and abortion politics specifically, I began to look for guidance to understand what is happening. I ended up pulling… Read More ›

• The Tree as Mother by Mama Donna Henes

  By Guest Contributor on May 19, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  Arbor Day, Earth Day, May Day and Mother’s Day are deeply connected conceptually, etymologically, culturally and emotionally. The tree, with its roots buried deep in the earth and its branches reaching upward toward heaven, spread wide to embrace all of… Read More ›

• May is the Month of Mary by Mary Jane Miller

  By Guest Contributor on May 18, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

   Mary Icons There are three classic prototypes of Mary Icons, their collective messages point toward a new contemporary kind of trinity. Perhaps the concept of Mary is still undeveloped, as our society has changed her message is still provocative and… Read More ›

• Gift-Economy in a Time of Lack by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on May 17, 2019 • ( 30 )

  

  Carol Christ wrote about gift economy on this blog in 2013, and I am taken by her story of the woman who brought raisins or cracked nuts to the group even though she had very little. In beginning to encounter… Read More ›

• The Legend of Arawello, the Somali Goddess by MaryAnn Shank

  By Guest Contributor on May 16, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  I did not intend to find her.  In fact I wasn’t even looking.  But there she was, soaring before me, on my last night in Baidoa.  This majestic Somali woman reached high into the heavens, engulfed in a glorious wraparound… Read More ›

• The Sound of Silence: a mother’s day reflection 2019 by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on May 15, 2019 • ( 20 )

  

  Here in the high desert it has been raining off and on for the last few days. A giant puddle sits in the driveway and all the trees range in color from subtle shades of sage to emerald. Fringed Chamisa,… Read More ›

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