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• From the Archives: Frozen 2: Can the Christian Church Hear its Gospel Song? by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on April 30, 2022 • ( 1 )

  This was originally posted on March 5, 2020 The first time I saw Frozen 2, I was impressed by the ecofeminism and the efforts to respect the Sami culture. The second time, I thoroughly enjoyed the superb music and the… Read More ›

• Mission, Not Glory: A Dialogue by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on April 29, 2022 • ( 6 )

  Well, he didn’t do it for the glory, that’s for sure. Maybe he did? He’s gone. When you immolate –you’re gone. What glory is there in that? Well, the reason he did it—as I understand it—is because the world is… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Mindful of the Bond We Share in these Trying Times by Vibha Shetiya

  By Vibha Shetiya on April 28, 2022 • ( 4 )

  This was originally posted on February 14, 2017 I’m sitting in my parents’ balcony in Pune, India, on a quiet morning. Well, this being a bustling Indian city of six million, it can’t really be quiet. As I sit with… Read More ›

• Whispers of the Ancient Ones by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on April 27, 2022 • ( 19 )

  

  Moving from town to town – by train, bus and ferry – I have walked and walked the ancient land of the Scottish Highlands. From Paleolithic to Mesolithic to Neolithic and on to Picts, Celts, Scots, Romans, French and English… Read More ›

• Starflower by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 26, 2022 • ( 5 )

  Snow tide recedes,  shrinking waves  expose papery oak leaves, thick tree roots, pine needles, fallen lichens, rich humus in the making… Mycelial networks   curl tips and tendrils embrace decay.

• Carol P. Christ’s Legacy: Was There a “Golden Age” before Patriarchy and War? by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 25, 2022 • ( 8 )

  Marija Gimbutas coined the term “Old Europe” c.6500-3500 BCE to describe peaceful, sedentary, artistic, matrifocal, matrilineal and probably matrilocal agricultural societies that worshipped the Goddess as the power of birth, death, and regeneration in all of life. Gimbutas argued that… Read More ›

• The Gendered Temptation of Jesus by Liz Cooledge Jenkins

  By Guest Contributor on April 24, 2022 • ( 15 )

  As Luke’s Gospel tells it, at the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, the devil comes to him in the wilderness and tempts him.[1] First, the devil latches onto Jesus’ hunger after forty days of fasting: “If you are the Son… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Medusa and Athena: Ancient Allies in Healing Women’s Trauma by Laura Shannon

  By Laura Shannon on April 23, 2022 • ( 5 )

  This blog was originally posted on June 24, 2017 Rather than being a bleeding image of female disempowerment, Medusa may be read as…one of the most ancient European symbols of women’s spiritual abilities… [and] an empowering image of feminine potential.’… Read More ›

• Transforming the Streets of Past into the Cities of the Future, Part II by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on April 22, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  You can read yesterday’s part 1 here. Modern architects and urban planners have recently been designing buildings and urban spaces promoting values reminiscent of Old Europe and other societies with similar values. These societies are often referred to as “matriarchal.”… Read More ›

• Transforming the Streets of Past into the Cities of the Future, Part I by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on April 21, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  Is a peaceful, just, creative, sustainable world a far-off, unattainable dream or might there be ways to begin to build such communities right in our own neighborhoods? Archeologists and scholars like Marija Gimbutas, Heide Goettner-Abendroth, and Carol Christ have studied… Read More ›

• Adventure in Zanskar by Amy Edelstein – Book Review by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on April 20, 2022 • ( 3 )

  Subtitled: A young woman’s solitary journey to reach physical and metaphysical heights. This is a fascinating book. Previously, my sparse Buddhism education had only consisted of reading fictional books representing the religion. I really enjoyed them. This is my first… Read More ›

• Root Blessing by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 19, 2022 • ( 5 )

  Appearing at dawn  beneficence  made her descent a cloud of blue behind her light rising luminescent glow

• Carol P. Christ’s Legacy: Kassiani: Placing a Woman at the Center of the Easter Drama

  By Carol P. Christ on April 18, 2022 • ( 4 )

  This blog was originally posted on April 13, 2015. You can read the original comments here. For many years I been told of the beautiful Hymn of Kassiani, sung only on Easter Tuesday night, but I had never heard it… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Why Isn’t Easter Marketable? By Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on April 17, 2022 • ( 8 )

  This as originally posted on March 25, 2018. A few months ago, a friend and I were having one of our many hundreds of random conversations when we started to talk about the differences in the commercialization of the two… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Resistance and the Religious Left by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on April 16, 2022 • ( 7 )

  This was originally posted on June 21, 2017, you can read the original comments here. For the last forty years, the Christian Right has influenced the conversation in American politics. Where is the Religious Left and how are they impacting… Read More ›

• From the Archives: The Quality of Mercy by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on April 15, 2022 • ( 5 )

  This was originally posts on October 4, 2020. You can see the original comments here. The quality of mercy is not strained;It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. It is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives… Read More ›

• GOD IS A BLACK WOMAN by Christena Cleveland, PhD – Book Review by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on April 14, 2022 • ( 11 )

  

  FAR recently published an excerpt and lively discussion of Christena Cleveland, PhD’s new book God Is a Black Woman. We thought the FAR community might enjoy learning more about this memoir of her moving journey from the terror and control… Read More ›

• The Magic of the Ordinary, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on April 13, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  “Nothing is so simple, or so out of the ordinary for most of us, then attending to the present.” — Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection I often speak of being in the temple of the ordinary,… Read More ›

• Birch in Spring  2022 by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 12, 2022 • ( 5 )

  Black eyes  smooth white    supple body, budded branches torching  cobalt sky in pink; hidden roots     are fed by March waters.

• Carol P. Christ’s Legacy: Please Keep It in Your Pants by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 11, 2022 • ( 2 )

  This blog was originally posted on November 6. 2017. You can read the original comments here. Trigger warning: this post describes sexual abuse Last week while responding to a comment on my blog, I suddenly remembered a series of incidents… Read More ›

• From the Archives: “Home: A New Pesach Reflection” by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on April 10, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Author’s note: This post originally published on this website on March 11, 2018. How prescient it is. I live in Prague, about an 8 hour car-ride to the Ukrainian border. Over 300,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived here, with more arriving… Read More ›

• All Shall Be Well: Hope in Hopeless Times

  By Mary Sharratt on April 9, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” These words of Julian of Norwich, taken from her masterpiece of visionary theology, Revelations of Divine Love, seem almost tone deaf against our… Read More ›

• Walking With Aletheia by Jean Hargadon Wehner – Book Review by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on April 8, 2022 • ( 14 )

  Trigger Alert: There is discussion of sexual violence. “I transformed from terrified victim to a courageous survivor . . .Different than an ‘out of body’ experience, this felt more like an ‘in-body’ experience. I stood my ground and did what… Read More ›

• Finding Andraste in the Norfolk Landscape by Claire Bullion

  By Guest Contributor on April 7, 2022 • ( 7 )

  Goddess Andraste is the embodied spirit of all of nature in Norfolk, England. We know She must have been a Goddess of Sovereignty to the Iceni tribe because Queen Boudica called on her to protect the people and their lands… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Longing for Hermitage by Elizabeth Cunningham

  By Elizabeth Cunningham on April 6, 2022 • ( 18 )

  This blog was originally posted on October 20, 2013. You can read the comments here. At least since the days of the Desert Mothers in the 4th and 5th centuries CE, there have been women in the Christian tradition (and… Read More ›

• Persephone Rising, Part 2 by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 5, 2022 • ( 13 )

  Part 1, from last week, can be read here. For those folks in the southern hemisphere who are entering fall as we the northern climates enter spring I offer this next personal narrative. Every Autumn I buy a smooth skinned… Read More ›

• Carol P. Christ’s Legacy: “THE OLD RELIGION” OR A “NEW CREATIVE SYNTHESIS”?

  By Carol P. Christ on April 4, 2022 • ( 3 )

  Moderator’s Note: Carol Christ died from cancer in July, 2021. Her work continues through her non-profit foundation, the Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual and the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete. This blog was originally posted June 30, 2014. You can read… Read More ›

• From the Archives: A Tiny Life by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on April 3, 2022 • ( 9 )

  When I first wrote this post in 2014, I said the news was getting me down. A terrorist gang in Nigeria had kidnapped, raped, and “married” two hundred schoolgirls. Kids were even then taking guns to school. What’s better as… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Grainne – Sun Goddess/Winter Queen by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on April 2, 2022 • ( 4 )

  This was originally posted on June 24, 2015. You can see the original comments here. In the ancient Celtic world the Goddess was the One who expressed Herself through the many.  Grainne is such a one. She is both Winter… Read More ›

• INTERBEING by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett

  By Guest Contributor on April 1, 2022 • ( 10 )

  “Every life bears in some way on every other.”                                                                                 -Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones This line from Susan Griffin’s profound investigation into the ways our lives are interwoven through war has been echoing in my mind frequently in recent… Read More ›

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