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• Hekate, Goddess of Liminality and Intermediary by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on April 18, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  Let me share with you the Goddess most honored as the Goddess of liminal time and space.  It is our beloved Hekate, Great Goddess of the Three Ways, bridging Earth, Sea and Sky as we travel between worlds. In modern… Read More ›

• Marianne Williamson. . . I’m Sacredly Smitten by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on April 17, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  I caution myself to be critical and nuanced. I’m sorry, folks. I just haven’t had such dazzling hope or remote interest in politics since. . . well, since I was a puppet junior high evangelist for an independent candidate my… Read More ›

• Making it Mine: An Un-Orthodox Passover by Joyce Zonana

  By Joyce Zonana on April 16, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  Passover is a holiday of remembrance, of ritual re-enactment: this, we say, is what our ancestors experienced. This is what they felt and knew, what they tasted in their blood. The movement from slavery to liberation, from the soul’s winter to spring. We must never forget, we say, we must always remember, be thankful for our freedom, never take it for granted. “In each generation,” the Haggadah enjoins, “we should feel as if we personally had come out of Egypt.”

• The Room Where We Support Each Other, Part 2 by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 15, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  Last week, In the Room of Undressing where women strip themselves to the bone, my great-great-grandmothers on my father’s side spoke in me. I had been afraid they would judge me for not being a wife and mother like they… Read More ›

• No Hope, No Problem: Reflections on Pesach, Time and Paradox. by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on April 14, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  In “Time Telling in Feminist Theory,” Rita Felski suggests that there are four main ways feminists discuss and use time: redemption, regression, repetition and rupture.  They are aptly named as they behave similar to their labels.  Redemption is the linear… Read More ›

• Raven’s Cry by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 13, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Fake coyote calls split a moon cracked sky in two. False ‘Indian’ hoots and drums stunned sleeping birds – Why do ‘whites’ insist upon using Indigenous ways, to make a point? Coyotes know. Did they think that she was blind… Read More ›

• The Art of Reclaiming Lost Time by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on April 12, 2019 • ( 22 )

  

  Last year I made a list of my recurring negative thoughts. Topping my list was: “There’s never enough time.”  As a freelance writer, I lead a life of frantic multi-tasking, each month peppered with deadlines and to-do lists, newsletters to… Read More ›

• Acting Out by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on April 11, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  I’ve had two distinct vocations during my lifetime—so far.  Three, really, if you count parenting a vocation.  Parenting took up a lot of my time for many years.  There were aspects to it that were fulfilling, enlightening, and satisfying, but… Read More ›

• Storytelling as a Spiritual Practice by Nurete Brenner

  By Guest Contributor on April 10, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Audre Lorde Question: What tools do we have that are powerful enough to dismantle the Master’s house? Answer: Storytelling. Storytelling does not belong to the “master.” Storytelling is subversive because it… Read More ›

• The Sanctuary of One Another by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on April 9, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  “Please prepare me to be a sanctuary. Pure and holy tried and true. With thanksgiving I’ll be a living sanctuary for you.”* —Beautiful Chorus (Hymns of Spirit) In March, my husband drove our daughter into town to work at her… Read More ›

• The Room Where We Support Each Other, Part 1 by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 8, 2019 • ( 21 )

  

  Over the past year or so I have been reciting my mother line, seven generations back, as a mantra of gratitude that helps me sleep at night. Sometimes I also name my sixteen great-great-grandparents, though I often fall asleep before… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, Dear Brother by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on April 7, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  Today would be my brother Dale’s 75th birthday. To honor him, I’m rewriting an article I wrote for a business magazine in Orange Co., CA, in 1992. Although I was a regular columnist for that business magazine, I seldom wrote… Read More ›

• The Healing Feminine Energy of Food by Lache S.

  By Lache S. on April 6, 2019 • ( 18 )

  

  In our society, relationships with food are complicated. Sometimes we might be anxious that our food is not safe, that we are not told the whole story, that we have to educate ourselves on what we can and guess the… Read More ›

• Embracing Lost Vocation: Painting Mother Goddess by Angela Yarber

  By Angela Yarber on April 5, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  The awakening occurred at 1:27am with the pterodactyl-cry only uttered by toddlers. It continued around 2am when said pterodactyl joined weary moms in bed. Stinging tears splattered pillows with a swift headbutt to my nose, later accompanied by footied talons… Read More ›

• Superstorm (a poem of feminist rage) by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on April 4, 2019 • ( 27 )

  

  Sometimes it whirls together, a superstorm of pain and despair, and the shittiness of it all is just too damned much to bear girls and women beaten, raped, abused, and all you nice guys don’t care and my little daughter… Read More ›

• “Don’t Let the Store Shop You” by Natalie Weaver

  By Natalie Kertes Weaver on April 3, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  My mother, in the great tradition of all mothers, says things sometimes that:  1) crack me up; 2) speak some depth of human truth; and 3) plainly and pithily state facts that could never be otherwise articulated, even if the task… Read More ›

• Seed Bearer by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 2, 2019 • ( 16 )

  

  Yesterday old eyes stung – fierce white heat – blurred vision. Singing love songs, I scattered seeds in furrows raked smooth, tucked tufts under stone… Imagining a Wildflower riot! Bittersweet orange, blue and gold winding through rice grass – sage… Read More ›

• “Calling All Women” to Save the Earth, signed and shared by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 1, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  I contend therefore that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advanced investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife and man himself. Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for… Read More ›

• Why Pro-Life Stops at Birth: Who Really Supports Life and Why by Winifred Nathan

  By Guest Contributor on March 31, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  The patriarchal Catholic Church claims to be pro-Life.  But is it pro-Life?  Or is it pro-Birth?  A Catholic Benedictine sister outed the pro-Life movement. Her position: the pro-life crowd shows little if any ongoing interest in life after birth.  They’re… Read More ›

• A Letter to Senator Feinstein by Sarah Robinson-Bertoni

  By Guest Contributor on March 30, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  Dear Senator Feinstein, I distinctly remember celebrating the 1992 historic victory when you and Barbara Boxer were elected as the first female Senatorial duo from any state in the union.  My father brought my sister and me to an election… Read More ›

• Liam Neeson and White Toxic Masculinity by Janet Rudolph

  By Guest Contributor on March 29, 2019 • ( 34 )

  

  Several weeks ago, Liam Neeson was doing a press tour for his latest movie. He caused quite a stir by bringing up an event from his life from 40 years ago. Actually, it was an event that happened not to… Read More ›

• If I Don’t Care, Then, Who Will? by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on March 28, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  What are we going to do with this world that’s on fire right now? I continually ask myself what my role is on this beautiful blue planet – what am I supposed to really do? What am I going to… Read More ›

• Hare Spirit Guide – Fertility and Renewal, by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on March 27, 2019 • ( 13 )

  

  Hare, important to humans since our early days, is known everywhere as a symbol of fertility, balance, and transformation. Although rare, cave paintings of Hare have been found. With Hare comes the Spring promise of the eternal renewal of life. … Read More ›

• The Finish Line by John Erickson

  By John Erickson on March 26, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

  I see it…do you? It’s just within reach and I’m almost there…the proverbial finish line to my Ph.D. That’s right folks, I’m graduating. To say that this has been an easy journey, one that many of you have read about… Read More ›

• His Terror by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on March 25, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  The first two parts of Susan Griffin’s Woman and Nature, “MATTER” and “SEPARATION,” are written in the authoritative voice of western philosophy and science that declares matter to be dead and the body an impediment to thought, and proceeds to… Read More ›

• The Modern Problematic Nature of the Sabarimala Temple, Part 2 by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on March 24, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  The Sabarimala Temple has received an influx of global attention since last October. In my last FAR post, I researched the origin story of the Sabarimala Temple and its dedicated deity, Ayyappan. Ayyappan’s unusual parentage and chosen attributes and patronage… Read More ›

• Persephone’s Return and the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on March 23, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Many of us are quite familiar with the story of Persephone and Demeter, the Greek myth behind the changing of seasons each year. “The story basically goes that Zeus arranges a marriage for Hades, the God of the Underworld and… Read More ›

• Yoga, Resilience and Learning Self-Care by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on March 22, 2019 • ( 36 )

  

  It is spring and it is warm in California. I haven’t been exercising over the winter because it has been extremely cold for California. I had the bug everyone else had. But, now I am back, and we have just… Read More ›

• Sawbonna: Godde and Another Route to Forgiveness by Margot Van Sluytman

  By Guest Contributor on March 21, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  From the day my Father, Theodore, was brutally and callously murdered in Toronto, on Easter Monday, March 27, 1978, I wanted to meet his killer. I wanted to know how it was possible to do such a horrific thing. I… Read More ›

• Expectations and Fulfillment by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on March 19, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  What is happiness? We all seek it. And yet, it seems so difficult to define. We often find ourselves drawn to options for synthetic happiness — having more things. I am embarrassed to admit that when I am struggling, I… Read More ›

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