The insurrection in the Capitol on January 6 has dominated the news ever since. Coverage of the Democrats’ victories in the two Senate runoffs in Georgia has been virtually nil. Now that it seems that at least as long as… Read More ›
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Altars Everywhere, Part 2 by Carol P. Christ
This is a continuation of an earlier blog in which I discuss home altars as a way to bring beliefs about women’s spiritual power into the body and daily life. In my bedroom, images of the Snake Goddesses of Knossos… Read More ›
Dear Cousin: Can We Talk about Structural Racism? by Carol P. Christ
,A few years ago, I visited the family farm founded by ancestors from Germany in the Pokonos with a newly discovered cousin. The woman I met was delightful: warm and friendly and very much connected to family still living in… Read More ›
The Lost Is Found by Carol P. Christ
Since I wrote “Claiming the Power to Choose to Our Lovers” and “Choosing to End Love” in the spring, my beloved and I came back together and parted again, not once, but twice. At the end of the summer, believing… Read More ›
JUSTICE AND PREJUDICE IN THE “PROPHETIC TRADITION” by Carol P. Christ
Besides being advocates of social justice, the prophets of Israel were advocates of “exclusive monotheism,” exclusively “male monotheism,” “religious othering,” and “religious prejudice.” Many progressive Jews and Christians find inspiration in prophets because of their insistence that their God cares… Read More ›
MATRIARCHY: DARING TO USE THE “M” WORD by Carol P. Christ
For me the word “matriarchy” expresses the certainty that “another world” can exist—a world not based in domination and hierarchy or violence and war. The word “matriarchy” makes people’s hair stand on end as they imagine the mirror-image of patriarchy:… Read More ›