“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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A Serpentine Path – Excerpt from the New Memoir by Carol P. Christ
Entering the archaeological site of Kato Zakros, which includes a Sacred Center and part of a town on a small hill above it, I felt too tired to continue with the others. As we passed a stone bench to the north and west of the open court, I lay down and closed my eyes. I […]
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What Goddess Mythology Teaches Us about the Women’s Strike and International Women’s Day #DayWithoutAWoman
We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. Yes, we can do it. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; all the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by […]
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In Dreamtime with the Ancestors {Carol P. Christ}
The last few days I have been living in dreamtime with my Swedish ancestors, most especially with my great-great-grandmother Ingrid, about whom I have learned a great deal over the past year. Through a distant cousin Thomas Sievertsson, who has been researching the part of Sweden from which she came, I have discovered details about […]
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Weaving and Spinning Women – Book Review of Witches and Pagans by Max Dashu {Carol P. Christ}
Max Dashu’s Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion 700-1000 challenges the assumption that Europe was fully Christianized within a few short centuries as traditional historians tell us. Most of us were taught not only that Europe became Christian very rapidly, but also that Europeans were more than willing to adopt a new religion that […]
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All Children Are Our Children {Carol P. Christ}
“All children are our children.” As I was posting my recent blog about the shooting of black men by the police, these words came into my mind with the force of revelation. At the time I was looking at a photograph of Philando Castile, taken at his place of work. Yes, I thought, my heart […]
