A few days ago I received a message out of the blue on Facebook: Thank you for your accepting my friend request. I am fighting to find my way out of depression during a life transition as I move into… Read More ›
process philosophy
Birth, Death, and Regeneration: Why I Am Only a Kind of a Buddhist by Carol P. Christ
In a recent blog describing conversations with my friend Rita Gross, I said that I think of myself as a “kind of a Buddhist” because I have given up a great deal of the ego(tism) described by Buddhists. I also… Read More ›
Relationship, Freedom, Change, and Interdependence in the Web of Life by Carol P. Christ
Marjorie Suchocki says that feminist theology needs a metaphysics, a coherent world view that can hold together what we might otherwise be seen as a series of unrelated assertions made by feminists. Metaphysics is one of those terms that make… Read More ›
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 ›
Whose Children Are Our Children? Whose Children Do We Care About? by Carol P. Christ
Melissa Harris-Perry created a media flurry when she stated that if we as a society considered “all children” to be “our children,” we would spend more money on childhood education. Critics at Fox News and other pundits called Melissa Harris-Perry… Read More ›
Our Mother Whose Body Is The Earth by Carol P. Christ
This prayer came to me recently in waking sleep: Our Mother whose body is the Earth, Blessed are you, And blessed are all the fruits of your womb. You give us this day our daily bread, And we share it… Read More ›
WHAT DOES “GOD INTEND”? by Carol P. Christ
Indiana Republican candidate Richard Mourdock’s statement that pregnancies resulting from rape are “something God intended” not only shows an appalling lack of empathy and distain for the experiences of raped women, it also is bad theology. The controversy ignited by Mourdock… 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 ›