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... call the Goddess. This idea of God being seen differently in different circumstances is reflected in the Torah text itself. God’s name (and the conception the name points to) changes from Genesis to Exodus. God tells Moses that “[I] appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as El...

...Starhawk Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 QUEER SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS Queemess in the Contem porary Goddess M ovement by Starhawk eltane, May Day, is one of the most...

..., male other. The two of us agree that symbols matter, and we both seek alternatives to the traditional image of God as an old white man, including symbols of God She or Goddess and images of divinity drawn from nature. While, in our early work, neither of us had fully conceptualized an alternative...

... are as historically conditioned as the cultures that produced them does not turn God into a figure of “sweetness and light;” it points toward the Holy One, who is all the more wild and mysterious and other. — Kathleen M. O’Connor, Decatur, GA FEMINIST VIEWS OF GODDESS AND GOD I deeply enjoyed reading...

... up and to school. Once my teenage son was on his way to school, and before waking my youngest son, I went for a walk with my dog. The day was exquisite. I began singing a Jewish prayer giving gratitude to the Goddess/God/Spirit of the Universe for returning my soul to me so I could be present...

...Melissa Raphael Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology , by Christ Carol P. and Plaskow Judith Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 WHEN ASKED IF I would review Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow’s book Goddess and God in the World: Conversations...

... in the democratic riot of local gods and goddesses within Hinduism — and the unity of Being that draws them together. As founding members of an expressly progressive Hindu activist organization, we look deep within Hinduism’s philosophical and religious traditions to inform our understanding of God...

... and goddesses being projections of parts of the self — such as beauty or wisdom (as were the Greek goddesses Athena and Aphrodite) — or merely characters in a narrative or placeholders in a hierarchy (like Isis and Osiris), the Hebrew Bible’s God was a complete personality with a mystery at the core. The Hebrew...

...Creative Commons/R. M. Calamar One possible future scenario, Jorge N. Ferrer writes, could involve “spiritual creative unions in which diversity is not erased but rather intensified.” Icons of the Hindu goddess Pavarti and Jesus remain separate but united in this mural from Agra, India. ...

... name, he was also wounded in the thigh. The one who wrestles with God (or the Goddess) will often come away both vanquished and enlightened. Though the questioning, prophetic voice is mostly absent from Levertov’s early poems, the sense of being ravished or vanquished by an outside power is present...

.... speaking of a Jewish Goddess, the issue seems to have fizzled, and Yet these reasons, w hile significant, cannot account for the con­ no new language has emerged for over a decade. Why? tinued hold o fmale language in m ost prayer books. It is hard not to I don’t...

... begets more cient story o f Rama and fem inists) that older women that is a part o f Islam ic— horror. Sita. Unlike either Judaism are politically liberal while and Kazakh—tradition is a Someday, people like my or Christianity, the goddess...

.... speaking of a Jewish Goddess, the issue seems to have fizzled, and Yet these reasons, w hile significant, cannot account for the con­ no new language has emerged for over a decade. Why? tinued hold o fmale language in m ost prayer books. It is hard not to I don’t...

... survive attacks from an interstellar capitalist empire seeking empire survive capitalist to ex­an from attacks interstellar to stmggle their us into movie draws the alive and consciousness, spiritually and sensitive, pacific, environmentally fundamentally called goddess a mother...

..., and on into our own time. enough to the ways in which Arabic and quirky The Hebrew Goddess, and The final chapters survey the ways in Spanish are intertwined with one another. Daniel M att’s translations from The which feminists have been recovering By recasting old literary texts in a contem­...

... an important role to play in maintaining that order. In ancient Egypt, rituals were necessary to keep the sky goddess Nut separated from the earth god Geb, or chaos would overwhelm the earth. Mesoamerican civilizations believed that human sacrifices were necessary to sustain the cosmos, the most famous example...

.... Inscribed on earthen tablets, it recounts the myth of the Goddess Inanna who initiates her quest for wisdom by placing her ear on the earth and then descends Rabbi L y n n Gottlieb is director ofShom er Shalom Institute fo r Jewish Nonviolence, cofounder o f the M uslim Jewish...