Sophia | she who is

Still on a feminine arc here - women in the world in general and where the church stands where it comes to females - throughout history and to this day. Holy Week always brings up issues about the Catholic Church, the Holy See and its history of colonizing oppression. 

25th anniversary edition, 2017

In She Who Is, Elizabeth A. Johnson writes that any approach to knowing a God who is beyond imagining must start with things that are known through human experience. For the Abrahamic religions history, the names and images used for God have been masculine and patriarchal. God as Father, as Lord, as divine king or ruler, all these names are gender specific and can perpetuate deluded patriarchy among its believers. 

I am She, the Lord

It's Women's History Month, Holy Week starts this week, and a killing spree has ended the lives of six Asian American women. What it is is an accumulation of abuse brought to a head. The world is watching how this latest hate crime plays out. Will justice be served? Will we rise up and call it unacceptable?

Inanna, Sumerian goddess procreation & Queen of Heaven

A personalized God can be a mere idol carved in our own image - a projection of our limited needs, fears, and desires. Instead of pulling us beyond our limitations, “he” can encourage us to remain complacently within them; “he” can make us cruel, callous, self-satisfied and partial as “he” seems to be. Instead of inspiring the compassion that should characterize all advanced religions, “he” can encourage us to judge, condemn, and marginalize.” ~ Karen Armstrong

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

Hail all females! It's our day!

March is Women's History Month and March 8 is International Women's Day. Whoohoo! to all the wonder | wonder | women of the world!

The theme for 2021 is let's all choose to challenge. A step forward from 2020's each for equal and 2019's balance for better. 

Do we have a Men's History Month? No - although 45 countries do celebrate International Men's Day. There's plenty to celebrate about men and not enough about women that's why. To this day International Women's Day is still proclaimed annually by the US President. 

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the historical, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also is a day of action in support of taking action against gender inequality around the world. We all agree the world couldn’t run without women.