Search results for Women's Spirituality

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...

A Brief Break!

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...

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...

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...

The Sacred Work of Mothering One Another

This past week, I facilitated another Sacred Women’s Circle for women over sixty. This is the fifth month in a row that I’ve been doing this most rewarding work. As I always view t...

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 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...

Mountain Mother by Sara Wright

When I picked berries in the mountain field that first summer, I could sense wave after wave of feeling rising up – seeping into my feet from the ground below. The sun spread blue...

Poems by Annelinde Metzner

For five days this March, I gifted myself with a stay at the Meher Baba Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I often plan short getaways to help me find my center and decompress...

What Does “Divine Mother” Actually Mean?

Across cultures, similarities about the concept of a motherly goddess emerge. The post What Does “Divine Mother” Actually Mean? appeared first on Yoga Journal.

Steppe Mother

Honoring Mother Earth through Mongolian folk songs The post Steppe Mother appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

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...

Women of the Cross

'Women of the Cross' exploring six women who encountered Jesus and were transformed by Him. The post Women of the Cross appeared first on Jesuits Ireland.

Encountering the Gods: Willow’s Journey at Spring Mysteries

A young practitioner reflects on her first Spring Mysteries Festival, sharing a deeply personal journey of devotion, connection, and transformation as she encounters the Gods throu...

Aquarius and the Woman at the Well by Judith Shaw

Those of us who are old enough to remember the hit song of the 1960s, The Age of Aquarius, have long lived with the promise of the dawn of this new age. The song and the hope of th...

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.

The Glorians written by Terry Tempest Williams, discussion by Sara Wright

The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary is an astonishing book written by internationally acclaimed  writer Terry Tempest Willams that is predicated on the necessity of be...

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...

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...

Spring Lessons, by Molly M. Remer

Let us trust the cycles of retreat and renewal alive in both the land  and in our hearts right now  as the melody of belonging  continues to serenade us  and we follow April's dete...

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...

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. 

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,”...