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Goddess of love, we want to worship not as outsiders waiting for crumbs, but as your children—part of your body, we long to praise you—part of your church. Goddess of joy, your name is wondrous, your thoughts are holy—deeper than ours. Yours is one body, many the members, Goddess, embrace us, make your church […]
Growing up in an evangelical church, I heard some about the women of the Bible. Not much. Just enough to tell me that Godde’s will for me was to grow up, get married, and have kids. Whenever I heard about the women in the Bible, they were wives and mothers, taking care of their families. […]
Ancient Love, Vibrant Life-giver, Stir compassion in us, Longings in our heart and action: For our own bodies and for all bodies, For the Earth fallen prey to robbers, For Half-the-sky passed by. Seated in a large circle with members of St. Hildegard’s Community, Rev. Judith Liro leads this prayer she created. This worship service […]
Broadway Church’s “Faces of Jesus” art collection is impressive in its scope and diversity. For forty years Rev. Paul Smith has been collecting these images, now totally 240, installed in hallway galleries in the church. The collection includes multicultural images of Jesus as female and androgynous, as well as male. One of the female images […]
Circle of Grace is a feminist Christian worshipping community. We are non-doctrinal and seek to re-imagine understandings of language and stories, symbols and metaphors. Our commitment is to inclusivity. We honor each one’s truth and each one’s journey and feel called into community as a way of faithful response. We understand feminism to be […]