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The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Good Theology is Feminist Theology

The was originally posted on July 21, 2014 Judith Plaskow and I are just now completing the draft of the manuscript of the book we have been working on for the past 2 ½ years. It h...

Legacy of Carol P. Christ: JUSTICE AND PREJUDICE IN THE “PROPHETIC TRADITION”

This was originally posted July 14, 2014 Besides being advocates of social justice, the prophets of Israel were advocates of “exclusive monotheism,” exclusively “male monotheism,”...

Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Rituals Of Spring and Greek Easter

This was originally posted on May 6, 2013 Though I am not a Christian any more, I don’t want to sit home alone on Easter Day.  Besides being a Christian ritual, Greek Easter is a t...

The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Spring in the Era of Pesticides, Global Climate Change, and War

This was originally posted April 6, 2015. Different wars perhaps (or a continuum) but the issues and horrors remain. This was not a normal winter. It rained and rained and rained....

Legacy of Carol P. Christ: IS EVIL PART OF THE NATURE OF REALITY AND DIVINITY?

This was originally posted on March 31, 2014. We are posting this on Sunday instead of Carol’s usual Monday in order to accommodate other scheduled posts this week.  What is the or...

Legacy of Carol P. Christ: TWO MEANINGS OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM

This was originally posted on May 26, 2014 “The error of anthropomorphism” is defined as the fallacy of attributing human or human-like qualities to divinity. Recent conversations...

After 50 years, women's ordination advocates brainstorm paths to transform institutions

The brainchild of WOC Executive Director Kate McElwee, the "Not if, But How — Reforming Institutions" panel gathered two sociologists and a political scientist to explore concrete...

In Defense of the Queen by Arianne MacBean

I read FAR’s repost of Carol Christ’s 2016 essay, Maiden, Mother, Crone: Ancient Tradition or New Creative Synthesis, with great interest and was struck by this sentence, “It has b...

Can We Claim a Glorious Matriarchal Reality?

Christina Rivera's recent book, MY OCEANS, awakens our lived connections to the more-than-human world and helps rebuild the harmonies of a care-based society.

A Brief Break!

Women Proclaimed First Resurrection But Rarely Lead Churches

R. Unplugged On Easter Sunday, festively decorated churches across the United States will be filled with worshippers eager to celebrate the most important day in the Christian...

Miriam MacGillis and Cosmology Revisited, part 1 by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

Author’s Note: When my mother died in 2018, I became the custodian of her voluminous files. I found some gems inside them. My mother lived in NJ not too far from a place called Gen...

THE GODDESSNESS PRAYER by Annie Finch

A SACRED FEMININE VERSION OF THE LORD’S PRAYER BASED ON A TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL ARAMAIC Genevieve Vaughan recently posted, on a Maternal Gift Economy group, a link to a new...

Women’s ordination movement has always been about ‘more than ordination’

It’s time to completely rethink what ordination could look like in the Catholic Church, said one keynote speaker at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Women’s Ordination Confe...

The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline

by Charlotte Choley, The Critic For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order Radical feminism and Christianity are not obviou...

Sojourner Truth, Sister Thea and the preaching of Black Catholic women

Tamika Royes suggests that Black Catholic women can help revive the Catholic Church — if only they are permitted to make full use of their gifts.

A Black womanist meets the pope

The Rev. Tonya Butler-Truesdale reflects on meeting Pope Leo XIV as a Black woman formed by deep faith, ancestral memory and ecclesial marginalization.

Emma Magdalene

How to Talk to a War Goddess: A Poetic Lesson From Sekhmet by Annie Finch

Consensus decision making, according to the mother of matriarchal studies Heidi Goettner-Abendroth, is woven into the definition of matriarchal societies. In these cultures, the re...

Women's ordination movement has always been about 'more than ordination'

At the 50th anniversary celebration of the Women's Ordination Conference, attendees dared to celebrate the Catholic Church's commitment to synodality and the bit of hope it brings...

The Music of Creation: Exploring Verse and Vibration in the Bible by Janet Rudolph, Book Review by Carolyn Lee Boyd

“What if the teachings within the Bible were not dualistic, but taught of oneness, connection, and the flow of energy?” (9) In The Music of Creation: Exploring Verse and Vibration...

Podcast: Black feminist professor Melanie Harris speaks of seeding peace

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Melanie Harris, professor of Black feminist and womanist theologies at Wake Forest University.

Invocation to Shekhinah-Lilith-Ishtar … By D’vorah Grenn, PhD

Moderator’s Note: This beautiful invocation appeared on the Lilith Institute’s website on February Feb 19, 2024. If you would like to learn more or see this invocation on their web...

Christal Kahles-Jones Unveils a Woman's Defying Answer to Calling of Faith at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 20...

A poignant reflection of strength, belief, and a higher calling, “In The Garden” by Christal Kahles-Jones unfolds as a captivating historical tale amidst the chaos of World...