From the Archives: That Which Is Sacred by Max Dashu
Moderator’s note: This marvelous FAR site has been running for 10 years and has had more than 3,600 posts in that time. There are so many treasures that have been posted in this decade that they tend...
View ArticleLegacy of Carol P. Christ: GODDESS AND SACRED COW: A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE...
This was originally posted on August 5, 2013 Most archaeologists and visitors to museums assume that when they see a horned bovine, they are faced with the image of the male God or the image of the...
View ArticleArchives from the FAR Founders: Learning Compassion from Inmate Number 74799...
This was originally posted on July 21, 2017. This is the first post of our new series to highlight the work of the four founders of FAR, Garrity-Bond, Caroline Kline, Gina Messina and Xochitl Alvizo...
View ArticleHuman, Just Human by Xochitl Alvizo
Mary Daly and other feminist scholars of her time knew that taking away the power of naming, whether oneself or the world, is one of the primary ways to take a people’s power away, to subjugate them to...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Sacred Water by Molly Remer
This was originally posted on August 9, 2017 “Drinking the water, I thought how earth and sky are generous with their gifts and how good it is to receive them. Most of us are taught, somehow, about...
View ArticleLabel or Be Labelled Part 2: Professional and spiritual identity
This post continues from Part 1, where I situated this essay as a reflection on Xochitl Alvizo’s article Human, Just Human. There, I questioned the difference between the power of naming versus the...
View ArticleLabel or Be Labelled Part 3: Toward Embodied Presence
In Part 1 of this series on labelling, I highlighted the difference between naming and labelling, and the search for a personal label as ‘participation ticket’ for life. In Part 2 on professional and...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Is Baptism a Male Birthing Ritual? By Michele Stopera...
This was originally posted on March 22, 2012 Quite a number of years ago I had a conversation with one of my professors, a feminist theologian, who posed the question “Why do I need a man to purify my...
View ArticleI Am an American, Too by Marie Cartier
I am an American.I am proud to be an American.I am not proud of everything America does—But I am proud of democracy—of the idea of democracy.And I do not want to waste my shot, either. I am an...
View ArticleLegacy of Carol P. Christ: Do White Feminists Have Ancestors?
This post was originally published on Aug. 12th, 2011 Carol P. Christ is a founding mother in the study of women and religion, feminist theology, women’s spirituality, and the Goddess movement. She...
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