Posts Tagged Faith & Feminism

By Courtney • 13 years ago

Faith & Feminism: ‘I yam as I yam’

This guest post from Reverend Guo Cheen, a dear friend, continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Reverend Cheen’s full bio after the jump. She would like extend an invitation to the whole Feministing community to join the diverse voices at an upcoming conference which she is co-creating called Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership: Women Redefining Power. Register here.

She is not a feminist.

She is a housewife who sits at home and watches soap opera and movies from late afternoon until dawn. She has flawless skin, the latest LV style and an elegant haircut that she gets from special trips to Vancouver. She drives a BMW, wears dark sunglasses and blocks out the sun at every turn.

She is my childhood ...

This guest post from Reverend Guo Cheen, a dear friend, continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Reverend Cheen’s full bio after the jump. She would like extend an invitation to the whole Feministing community to join ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Faith & Feminism: Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house?

This beautiful guest post from John Freml, who incidentally, studied with our last guest blogger, Caryn D. Riswold, continues our Faith & Feminism series. See John’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column. I’d especially love to hear some reflections by feminists with affiliations with eastern religions, as we seem to have a scarcity of their voices here.

Queer Catholics are in the middle of an extremely strenuous and unrelenting tug of war.  They are told by their church that their desires are a “grave depravity,” “intrinsically disordered,” and “under no circumstances can they be approved.”  Meanwhile on the other end of ...

This beautiful guest post from John Freml, who incidentally, studied with our last guest blogger, Caryn D. Riswold, continues our Faith & Feminism series. See John’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Faith & Feminism: Here I Stand, Without the Goddess

This powerful guest post from Caryn D. Riswold, who I met a few years ago while speaking at Illinois College, continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Caryn’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

Reading Sue Monk Kidd’s spiritual memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, I realized that I just didn’t get the deep need for the Goddess that she described.  I also felt in a new way how a second-wave feminist story was not my own.  Participating in worship and the Faith and Feminism Conference at Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran in San Francisco, I witnessed the transformative difference that claiming the divine feminine made in the ...

This powerful guest post from Caryn D. Riswold, who I met a few years ago while speaking at Illinois College, continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Caryn’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Faith & Feminism: Sobriety through feminist spirituality

This courageous guest post from Karina Keeley continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Karina’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

I wasn’t raised religious, or spiritual, atheist or agnostic—I was raised ‘indifferent’, as I like to call it.  Not to say that my parents did me a disservice; I think, in the long run, it has actually granted me space to organically and sincerely figure out what works for me in the deistic realm.  As an angsty, bewildered teenager, I often flirted with a variety of god-like notions, different forms of prayer, and even a gothic-inspired foray into paganism. Nothing seemed to resonate, however, and with ...

This courageous guest post from Karina Keeley continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Karina’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

I wasn’t raised ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Faith & Feminism: On Joy, Identity and Patriarchy

This provocative and brave guest post from Anna Batler continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Anna’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

While studying at an Orthodox Jewish women’s seminary in Israel, I attended a series of lectures by prominent Orthodox women with impressive careers.  One speaker in particular was an accomplished senior partner at a prominent Wall Street law firm. In the early seventies, she was the second woman to make partner in any law firm of such caliber. She worked without end–communicating with her children by writing them post cards and leaving them on the kitchen table. She discussed the isolation of being the only ...

This provocative and brave guest post from Anna Batler continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Anna’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

While studying ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Faith & Feminism: Mary Baker Eddy, life model in and out of religion

This inspired guest post from the amazing Susan Cobb continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Susan’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

I spent ten years gaining Gold for Life status on American Airlines speaking about the woman founder of a religious denomination and her radical-for-the-time ideas. The historical record I drew from for those presentations was vast, as were Mary Baker Eddy’s accomplishments. She passed on December 3, 1910, one hundred years ago last month. She was founder of a church, a publishing company, and The Christian Science Monitor, all of which continue today. The text she wrote that distilled her theology, Science and Health with ...

This inspired guest post from the amazing Susan Cobb continues our Faith & Feminism series. See Susan’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

I spent ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Faith & Feminism: A feminist theologian reveals her truth

This inspired guest post from feminist spiritual leader Meggan Watterson continues our Feminism & Faith series. See Meggan’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

As a feminist theologian, I was utterly bereft at the lack of female voices in the litany of theological course work my two masters degrees required me to know. Much of the theological discourse I read was fascinating, inspiring even, but it left my experience as a young embodied female absolutely unknown.

Where was the spiritual experience of a woman who spoke with and from the wisdom of her body rather than denied it?

The women of Gen X and Gen Y have been blessed ...

This inspired guest post from feminist spiritual leader Meggan Watterson continues our Feminism & Faith series. See Meggan’s full bio after the jump, and be in touch with Courtney_at_feministing.com if you’d like to contribute a future column.

As ...