From the 1993 Re-Imagining Conference: Our mother Sophia, we are women in your image: With the hot blood of our wombs we give form to new life. With the courage of our convictions we pour out our life blood for… Read More ›
Sophia
Sophia, Goddess, and Feminist Spirituality: Imagining the Future by Carol P. Christ
Though represented by its detractors as an incursion of paganism into Christianity, and presented as an integrally and intrinsically Christian phenomenon by its supporters, the truth about the Re-Imagining Conference and movement is that it was a product of a… Read More ›
Sophia from The Goddess Project: Made in Her Image by Colette Numajiri
“Happy are those who find wisdom. . . . She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. . . Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a… Read More ›
Painting Sophia by Angela Yarber
Sophia was the first Holy Women Icon with a folk feminist twist I ever painted. A church gallery was hosting a Lenten triptych exhibition with the theme of “The Many Faces of Jesus.” I knew immediately that the face of… Read More ›
Can You Kill the Spirit? What Happened to Female Imagery for God in Christian Worship? by Carol P. Christ
When I first began to think about female language and images for God I imagined that changing God-He to God-She and speaking of God as Mother some of the time would be a widespread practice in churches and synagogues by… Read More ›
November, A Silent Month? by Barbara Ardinger
November, which begins with All Saints Day (yesterday) and All Souls Day (today), gives us a quiet, welcome break between the loud make-believe of Halloween and the incessant caroling of the winter solstice season with its popular holidays. In the… Read More ›
Fun With Bumper Stickers By Barbara Ardinger
I was driving through one of the more conservative corners of Orange County, California, a couple weeks ago and went past a very pretty brick church with a tall, proud steeple and signs in the front yard giving times of… Read More ›
The Boldness of Grace Ji-Sun Kim by Grace Yia-Hei Kao
“The Grace of Sophia is an openly ‘syncretistic’ work.”
