This continues our countdown to the Feast of Mary Magdalene which is celebrated on July 22nd. Here we work together to resurrect the Magdalene from 2000 years of dismissal. Together we invite Mary Magdalene to rise from the dead – the death that was accomplished at the hands of a patriarchal and hierarchical world that could […]
Feminist Spirituality
Maiden, Mother, Crone: Ancient Tradition or New Creative Synthesis? by Carol P. Christ
The image of the Goddess as Maiden, Mother, Crone is widespread in contemporary Goddess Spirituality. The Triple Goddess honors three ages of women, in contrast to the wider culture that: affirms young women as sex objects while shaming them as sluts; celebrates mothers on Mother’s Day, while providing few legal and economic protections for mothers; […]
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The Power of Story by Genevieve Mitchell
“We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.”– Anais Nin I’ve spent some time this week thinking about my story, the story I tell myself, and how it is a lens by which I view my world. I’ve been thinking a great deal about the word “God”, and what that story […]
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Celebrating the Goddess Gaia for April 11 Full Moon {Goddess Full Moon Group}
Join the Goddess Full Moon Group for the first Spring Full Moon celebrating the Goddess Gaia on Tuesday, April 11 at 8pm eastern, the date of the Full Moon! Brandi Auset and I lead the Goddess Full Moon Group every month, as well as some special Goddess Wheel celebrations, and it includes discussion of the featured Goddess, […]
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Sacred Marriage or Unholy Cover-up? {Carol P. Christ}
Many women are drawn to the image of the Sacred Marriage—perhaps especially those raised in Roman Catholic or Protestant traditions where sex is viewed as necessary for procreation but nothing more, and who learn that the naked female body as symbolized by Eve is the source of sin and evil. In this context, the positive […]
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To the Beautiful Mourner – Isis the Weeper that Transforms {M. Isidora Forrest}
This is a gift the priest/ess brings before the Beautiful Mourner, Isis the Weeper Who Transforms: an invocation offering of mourning. I offer You, Isis, my mourning for there is nothing else I can do with it. How is it that something so empty can be called pain-full? I am abandoned in an ocean of […]
