In recent years monotheism has been attacked as a “totalizing discourse” that justifies the domination of others in the name of a universal truth. In addition, from the Bible to the present day some have used their own definitions of… Read More ›
Goddess thealogy
GODDESS WITH US: IS A RELATIONAL GOD POWERFUL ENOUGH? by Carol P. Christ
Last week I wrote about Protestant Neo-Orthodoxy’s deification of male power as power over. This week I want to ask why the relational Goddess or God* of process philosophy has not been more widely embraced, both generally and in feminist… Read More ›
Goddess Mother by Molly
Mamapriestess She who changes She who expands and contracts She who stretches her limits She who digs deep She who triumphs and fails Every day Sometimes both within a single hour She who tends her own hearth She who comforts… Read More ›
Do Women’s Circles Actually Matter? By Molly
“We need rituals of memory…because a political movement, the public policy and tactics of our movement, does not come from our ideas, but from the bloody and joyful substance of our lives. We need to be conscious about what our… Read More ›
Endarkenment By Molly
It is from this dark space that we emerge—whether from our own mothers or from the more mysterious cosmic “sea” of soul—and it is to darkness that we return when we close our eyes for the final time. I find… Read More ›
Reading Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as Matricide and Theacide by Carol P. Christ
When I read Plato’s allegory of the cave as an undergraduate, I was told it had something to do with the idea that the “form” of a table is more “real” than the table itself. I must confess that I… Read More ›
Who is She? The Existence of an Ontological Goddess By Molly
I do feel Her presence directly in my life—call it an energy, call it the sacred feminine, call it the divine, call it source, call it soul, call it spirit, call it the great mystery…I perceive a web of relatedness… Read More ›
SHE WHO CHANGES* by Carol P. Christ
She changes everything She touches and everything She touches changes. The world is Her body. The world is in Her and She is in the world. She surrounds us like the air we breathe. She is as close to us… Read More ›
To a Friend, on the Loss of her Daughter by Carol P. Christ
One test of a thealogy is whether it can help us “make sense” of our lives—even the senseless parts of them. Recently a friend told me that the teen-aged daughter of a friend of hers had committed suicide. “What would… Read More ›
EASTER OF THE GODDESS: A VIEW FROM GREECE by Carol P. Christ
On Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday the blogs on feminismandreligion.com celebrated mothers and God the Mother.* This is my body, given for you. This is my blood, given for you. While these words are the center of… Read More ›
Songs We Sing By Barbara Ardinger
Even though I’m a spiritual feminist—and a pretty cranky one—I like the old familiar Christmas carols. I’m listening to a CD of Christmas songs in my car. One of the songs on the CD has the line, “God is watching… Read More ›
