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Florence + The Machine’s Latest Album Puts Feminism’s Witchcraft Connections Front And Center

Everybody Scream asks the right questions about life, but the answers are all wrong — and profoundly spiritual. 

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...

The Golden Book of Wisdom: Ancient Spirituality and Shamanism for Modern Times by Fotoula Adrimi

There comes a moment on the spiritual path, often arriving quietly and unexpectedly, when a woman begins to sense that the life she has been living does not fully belong to her. Th...

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...

Into Me I See: The Sacred Torch of Feminine Heat by Jsabél Bilqís

There’s that throbbing again! In the slit center of me. Spreading vehemently, devouring, insatiable, red like blood and warm like body. They say I’m Jezebel because I like it when...

Reconnecting to the Muse

Creativity and spirituality are two facets of the same deep state of being. To become spiritual is to be creative, and to be creative is to be spiritual

Roots in the Air by Sara Wright

I am a plant woman, that is a woman who has an intimate relationship with plants. As an ecofeminist writer I believe that women and plants have a ‘natural’ connection to one anothe...

A Silent Revolution- What Feminism In India Look Like?

                            A Silent Revolution - What feminism in India look like?When we hear the word “feminism” in the context of India, the Western image often comes to mind f...

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

"On many levels, we wind up being strengthened by what we join, or what joins us, as well as by what we combat."

From Suffrage To #MeToo: The Waves, Theories, And Thinkers That Shaped

Feminism is not a single, monolithic ideology but a rich and evolving field of thought that has developed across different historical moments, intellectual traditions, and social s...

Spiritualism: A Product Of Conviction Or A Response To Inner Conflict?

Should Spiritualism Follow Conviction or Arise from a Dilemma? A Reflection on the Inner DivideHuman engagement with spiritualism has rarely been a straight, uncomplicated journey....

Embodiment as Positive Resistance

I nearly cancelled my recent trip to the United States. The political climate felt tense, the global atmosphere uncertain, and travelling across the Atlantic seemed questionable fo...

Burning Woman, by Lucy H. Pearce, 10th Anniversary Edition, Book Review by Beth Bartlett

As someone who came into feminism in the late 1970s early 1980s, reading Lucy Pearce’s Burning Woman was re-entering the power and promise of women-centered feminism – the heyday o...

The First Temple was Her Body

A Meditation on the Sacredness of Mothers Across Every Tradition That Remembered There is a question every living human has answered without speaking. Where did you come from. Not...

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.

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...

Why We Need Gender and Women’s Studies Conferences and Coalition Work Now More Than Ever

There’s a palpable buzz in the air when you walk into a gender and women’s studies conference: a mixture of excitement, apprehension, and the relief of finally feeling able to brea...

Feminism Was Never Meant To Compete With Men

Feminism Was Never Meant to Compete With Men—. Modern Feminist Discourse Feels Increasingly Polarised- Ananya MohantyThere is a clear difference between feminist theories and the p...

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...

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,”...

A new book explores why the wellness industry has failed spiritual seekers

Increasingly, people are turning to these practices not just for physical benefits, but to find meaning outside of institutional religion. But according to Liz Bucar, a scholar in...

New book explores why the wellness industry has failed spiritual seekers

In 'Beyond Wellness,' religious ethics professor Liz Bucar makes the case for connecting yoga, meditation and other practices to their religious origins.

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...