How the Greek myth of Philomela immortalizes the power of feminine creativity to liberate and empower women to tell their stories.
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For most of my life, salvation meant one very specific thing. I used to be saved, certainly and finally, but then things went to hell.
More and more, Christian women are beginning to talk about Feminism, but what does it mean in the context of our faith tradition? I grew up Evangelical in South Texas, so even though I heard the word patriarchy 1,000 times, I never knew what it meant, and I knew better than to try and find out.[...]
The year after my failure, I stepped into the darkness. I allowed the shame and grief to bury me, and when I emerged, I'd been made new.
When you leave the religious tradition you were raised in, you might end up seeking God in unfamiliar places.
I found Mary in the grotto, shaded from the sun, her feet covered in confessions from seekers like me. To understand God not just as father but as mother is revolutionary for anyone who grew up in a patriarchal tradition. When God is mother, we relate to her differently. And while we are awar[...]
There was not a single universe in which I would have predicted I would be writing about feminism in any form, but when I held “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine” in my hands, I had a sense it was going to change some things[...]