Legacy 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleFrom 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 ArticleReshaping Our World with Words by Carolyn Lee Boyd
Pagasasthai, kernos, thiosos, sloinneadh, taibhsear. These are centuries-old words that help describe and create a world in which the Earth is sacred and receives gratitude, people revere the wisdom...
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Monotheism and the Shema: Lessons on Oneness and Unity by Ivy Helman
In my last blog post, I explained what we lost when the Israelites became monotheists. That post looked at the move to monotheism from a more historical, feminist perspective. In this post, I want to...
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The Lady Be With You – A Closer Look at Liturgical Idolatry by Tallessyn Zawn...
Even though I realized at least 17 years ago that it makes no theological sense to limit our symbols of the Divine to male symbols – Lord, God, Father – it took several years for this idea to embed...
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What Gender is God Anyway? by Janet Rudolph
Adult Daughter (“AD”): Hi Mom, Alex said to tell you “hi.” Me: That’s nice. How is she? AD: How are “they?” Alex uses “they,” mom. Me: Oh right, sorry. I am having some trouble wrapping my head around...
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Honoring the Completion of the Year, by Molly Remer
“Beginnings and endings are so very sacred, to give honor to all that has transpired, every experience, every joy, every pain, is a doorway to the magical. Hold your entire year between your hands,...
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Small Victories by Sara Frykenberg
Last year was a hard year. I wrote about this difficulty—vaguely eluding to challenges of environment, home, and work—in my last post. In this blog, which was a copy of my reflection for our last...
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The Blessing of Spiritual Direction by Elise M. Edwards
Five years ago, I moved to Texas from California. In that time, my spiritual practice and my feminist and womanist worldview has grown through contemplative practices. It’s ironic. “Everything’s...
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Sacred Water by Molly Remer
“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 giving and accepting human gifts, but not about...
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Learning Compassion from Inmate Number 74799 by Cynthia Garrity-Bond
Technically I was employed as a lab assistant at our community hospital. This position entailed multiple responsibilities, from receptionist to actual bench work within the laboratory. The task I...
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Sirens, Thunderstorms, and Bowling: The Divine on this Mother’s Day by Ivy...
Let’s see if the following course of events makes sense. A few Wednesdays ago, I was thinking about possible topics for this post considering it would be Mother’s Day. In the midst of thought, the...
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