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• Joy to the World, the CEO Is Come; Let Earth Receive Its President by Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee

  By Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee on December 21, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  Ah, Christmas. So nostalgic. So sentimental. Fat, fluffy sheep. Singing angels. The ‘little Lord Jesus,’ asleep on the hay. Happy sigh. Except… well, except that no matter the candlelit warm glow, the truth is that the communities who wrote the… Read More ›

• The Brass Tacks of the Trump Impeachment by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on December 20, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  From the very moment after the dust settled from the 2016 elections, notions of impeachment started to break. Now three years into the Trump Presidency, impeachment proceedings have been launched. To start, Impeachment is a Constitutionally supported right. It is… Read More ›

• Embracing the Darkness by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on December 19, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

  For most of my life I dreaded both the approach of winter and winter itself. Having grown up in the semi-tropics of New Orleans I had little tolerance for the cold. Living further north as an adult, the shortening days… Read More ›

• Navajo Night Chant and the Sacred Dark by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 18, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  With Winter Moon’s passage and the approach of the winter solstice just a little less than a week away I am much aware of the (potential healing) dwelling place that I inhabit that also characterizes these dark months of the… Read More ›

• Week 3 – Goddess Birthing Liberation: A Feminist Advent Daily Devotional by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on December 17, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  If you have not yet realized that the Christmas story is a story of liberation from oppression, it is time to realize that. I like to dust off the patriarchy and mysogyny of scriptural writers to find the beautiful wisdom… Read More ›

• Rituals of “Re-birth” Are Based in Matricide by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on December 16, 2019 • ( 28 )

  

  The other night, while I was having dinner with two Greek women friends, one of them asked me what I learned studying theology at Yale. I responded that I learned that woman was created second; that she brought sin and… Read More ›

• Would You Rather Just Not Be? by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on December 15, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  When I was in my late teens, my mother became friendly with Beth, a woman she occasionally worked with on the post-partum unit of the local hospital.  Beth had two children a little younger than I, however, when our moms… Read More ›

• Through a Dark Forest: Fairy Tales as Women’s Stories

  By Mary Sharratt on December 14, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

    My first brush with raw and authentic fairy tales took place nearly thirty years when I was teaching English to Japanese children in Munich, Germany, where I lived from 1989 – 2000. Intending to stock up on children’s literature,… Read More ›

•  The Circle of Life and Death by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 12, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  This morning the sky was on fire before dawn even as I approached the river whose ripples reflected a purple so deep it was almost inked in charcoal – In the Bosque I noticed that one mule deer had used… Read More ›

• Mess and Magic, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on December 11, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Maybe beautiful things don’t only grow from peace, maybe they grow from the soil of living, which holds both blood and tears muck and magic. Last week I tried to work on my book while the household debris whirled around… Read More ›

• Can We Celebrate the Dark? Can We Sleep? by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on December 9, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  According to Marija Gimbutas, the religion of Old Europe celebrated the Goddess as the power of birth, death, and regeneration in all of life. Agricultural peoples understand that seeds must be kept in a cold dark place during the winter… Read More ›

• On My Invitation as a Jew to Participate in Advent and Christmas by Ivy Helman.

  By Ivy Helman on December 8, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  I attend Czech classes twice a week.  This time of year the courses focus on Christmas.  I’ve attended three different schools over the last five years, and all handle Christmas similarly.  Even though the Czech Republic is only marginally Christian,… Read More ›

• Week 2 – Goddess Birthing Liberation: A Feminist Advent Daily Devotional by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on December 7, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  If you have not yet realized that the Christmas story is a story of liberation from oppression, it is time to realize that. I like to dust off the patriarchy and mysogyny of scriptural writers to find the beautiful wisdom… Read More ›

• Week 1 Goddess Birthing Liberation: A Feminist Advent Daily Devotional by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on December 6, 2019 • ( 20 )

  

  If you have not yet realized that the Christmas story is a story of liberation from oppression, it is time to realize that. I like to dust off the patriarchy and mysogyny of scriptural writers to find the beautiful wisdom… Read More ›

• A Predator by Sheree La Puma

  By Guest Contributor on December 5, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  “Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.” ― Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence Now I tell myself that I’m street smart. I did the Jack Kerouac “On the Road” trip when I was 18, driving cross… Read More ›

• The Feast of Santo Tomas by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on December 3, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  This morning I went up to the village plaza in Abiquiu to watch the dancers parade around the church with their saint who is also honored at this village festival held every year at the end of November. This is… Read More ›

• Celibacy Is the Lynch-Pin of Male Dominance according to Matilda Joslyn Gage by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on December 2, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  Matilda Joslyn Gage was an activist in the nineteenth century struggle for women’s rights equal to Susan B. Anthony, and a writer and theorist equal to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. That she is not remembered is due in large part to… Read More ›

• Archy and Mehitabel by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on December 1, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  Archy the Cockroach and Mehitabel the Cat were introduced to the world in 1916 by Don Marquis, a columnist for the New York Evening Sun. Marquis was more than a mere columnist; he was a social commentator and satirist admired… Read More ›

• The Caves Beneath My Roots or Psychological Spelunking by Darla Graves Palmer

  By Guest Contributor on November 30, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  I’ve spent much of the past four years – since returning to the state of my birth after more than forty years’ intentional absence – trying to understand and make peace with a particular slice of southern culture that I… Read More ›

• The Holy of Holies and the Umbilical Cord: The Evolution of a Ritual Object by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on November 29, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  In the Jewish calendar, we’re just past the holiday season—the High Holidays, the harvest festival of Sukkot, and the concluding festival of Simchat Torah when the last verses of the Torah are read and the first verses are started again…. Read More ›

• Imagine. A Relationship. by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on November 28, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Imagine. A relationship. So painful. So needed. Never. What it needs. To be. Yet the Desire. For what. For what. Imagine. A relationship That’s not. Doesn’t exist. Isn’t. A relationship That strives To go. No where. A relationship Of fear…. Read More ›

• Tlachtga, Forgotten Celtic Goddess – by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on November 27, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

  I am the Sun – bringer of the warming light of day. I am Lightning –  bringer of fire to Earth. I am Tlachtga who flew through the sky together with my father Mog Ruith in our glowing wheel. I… Read More ›

• The Pomegranate by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on November 26, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  It is mid November and shiny crimson Pomegranates catch the discerning eye in food markets; even Walmart carries them! Why do these beautiful and very ancient fruits appear during this dark time of the year? One answer to this question… Read More ›

• Susan B. Anthony’s Bargain with the Devil by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on November 25, 2019 • ( 44 )

  

    [T]he most grievous wrong ever inflicted on woman has been in the Christian teaching that she was not created equal to man, and the consequent denial of her rightful place in Church and State. –Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church,… Read More ›

• The Boots on the Ground People of Queer Eye: Part 3 by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on November 24, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  This month is the trilogy to my Queer Eye series. The last two posts talked about the significance of the current reboot Netflix series and the Fab Five. This post will highlight some of the people who were made over…. Read More ›

•  Persephone Rises by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on November 23, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  While researching Minoan Crete I learned that each autumn young girls once gathered blue violet saffron crocus to leave as an offering for the Wild Crocus Goddess as they prepared for adolescent female initiation rites. I was intrigued by the… Read More ›

• Poem: She Works Hard for the Money and a Working Class Dream by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on November 22, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  My neighbor gets up at 2 a.m. and is at work by 3:30 a.m. Six days a week. She works hard for the money* She works at a grocery store. She has two dogs and I have two dogs. Our… Read More ›

• ERA—Equal Rights for Women—in the US: Has Our Time Finally Come? by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on November 18, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  On August 26, 1970, I borrowed an old VW bug from my mentor and summer employer Michael Novak to drive from Oyster Bay, Long Island to New York City to take part in the Women’s Strike for Equality march down… Read More ›

• Teaching After the Getty Fire by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on November 16, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  This is the third year in a row that I will be writing about wildfires in California and their impact on me and my community. This year, I don’t have any poetry. This year, I’m not afraid. This year, I’m… Read More ›

• In the Beginning…by Lori Stewart

  By Guest Contributor on November 14, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  In the beginning the very beginning, not the patriarchal, colonial beginning In the beginning was the Word which may have been a grunt, a vibration, a thought, a feeling a woman or man or a non-binary being In the beginning… Read More ›

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