Faith & Feminism/Womanist/Mujerista Conference November 6-9, 2008

Come Now, O Wisdom

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Come Now, O Wisdom

Faith and Feminism,

Womanist/Mujerista Conference at herchurch

San Francisco, CA

 

Registration limited to 100

 

2008 keynote speaker was Carol Christ, Ph.D. who is the author of the widely reprinted essay, "Why Women Need the Goddess," which has awakened us to the Sacred Feminine and introduced many to the rebirth of the ancient religion of the Goddess.

 

She has written five influential books on women's spirituality and feminist theology: She Who Changes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Rebirth of the Goddess (Routledge, 1998); Odyssey with the Goddess (Continuum, 1995); Laughter of Aphrodite (Harper, 1987); and Diving Deep and Surfacing (Beacon, 1980/1986/1995); with Judith Plaskow she co-edited the classic anthologies Weaving the Visions (1989) and Womanspirit Rising (1979/1989) which have changed women's lives and revolutionized the teaching and study of religion in North America.

www.goddessariadne.org

 

Purpose:           To provide opportunity for feminist faith seekers, church leaders, Interfaith leaders, politicians and artists to experience and discuss the urgent implications of God/dess imagery and gender issues which transform the church, the world and our daily lives so that together we seek and speak justice.

 

To model feminist (egalitarian discipleship) faith community for and with the Christian Tradition and other faiths and systems which would benefit from switching paradigms: from domination to partnership models.

 

Voices from various feminist /womanist/mujerista faiths will bring their experience to the table. Artists and musicians and worship leaders will also be present.  Full schedule forth coming. Conference is subsidized, so the cost is a low fee of $60, with scholarships available.

 

Contributing voices and workshop leaders include:

 

 2007 Keynote Speaker:

Jann-Aldredge-Clanton, Ph. D

     In Whose Image,

     In Search of Christ-Sophia

     Inclusive Hymns for Liberating Christians

     www.jannaldredgeclanton.com

 

Visionary Artist Rev. Shiloh McCloud

    www.wisdomhousecatalog.com

 

Elizabeth Ursic. Ph. D

    Religious Studies Faculty,

    Mesa Community College

 

China Galland, Director of the Center

     for Arts, Religion and Education.

     www.chinagalland

     Love Cemetery, 

     Longing for Darkness:

        Tara and the Black Madonna

 

 Stacy Boorn, M. Div.

   Pastor of herchurch, SF

 

 

Joseph Subbiondo, President CIIS

     www.ciis.edu

 

Anna Yang, RN, MA (Women’s Spirituality)

    Labyrinth Facilitator

    www.RedWebFoundation.org

 

Mary Streufert, Ph. D

     Director for Justice for Women, ELCA

 

Karen Tate, Author, Internet Radio, Tours

    www.karentate.com 

 

Wanda Deifelt, Ph. D. Feminist- 

   Liberation Theologian,  

   EST,  Brazil,

 

Beatrice Morris, Womanist

   thealogian, UCC minister,

   Ph. D. candidate 

 

Judith Dancer, BodyConnect

    Minister of Embodiment

 

 

 

Review 2008 Faith and Feminism
Womanist/Mujerista Conference

 

Faith and Feminism, Womanist/Mujerista Conference

November 7-9, 2008

Celebrate 30 years since....

 

Carol Christ’s article "Why Women Need the Goddess" was presented as the keynote address to an audience of over 500 at the "Great Goddess Re-emerging" conference at the University of Santa Cruz in the spring of 1978. It was first published in Heresies: The Great Goddess Issue (1978), 8-13, and reprinted in Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, eds., Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader on Religion (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979), 273-287, as well as in Carol P. Christ, Laughter of Aphrodite: Reflections on a Journey to the Goddess (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987) 117-132.

 

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Conference Schedule

 

Keynote Presenter:      Carol Christ, Ph. D.

Artist in Residence:                  Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Minister of Embodiment:        Judith Lavender Dancer

 

Musicians & Contributing Voices – see below

 

Friday

 

3:00 PM           Pre-Conference gathering

Women Clergy/Faith Leaders and Conference Leaders

5:00 PM           Catered Dinner for women leaders/clergy

 

6:00 – 6:45       GENERAL Registration

 

Weekend:                     A Women’s Eye Gallery – Visual Spirituality (weekend)

                                    AWE Annex – Shiloh McCloud Exhibit  (Weekend)

                                    Coffee Bar, water, snacks in the AWE Gallery

 

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM  (Childcare times – during all presentations and workshops)

            Introduction/welcome – Pr. Stacy Boorn, herchurch, Jann AC hymn

            Grounding:  Musician Jennifer Berezan

            The Sacred Dance

            Key Note –Carol Christ

                        Why Women, Men, and Other Living Things Still Need the Goddess......

            Guided Movement

            Whole group, Q & A engagement with Carol Christ

            Visual Spirituality/Sacred Sending:  Music with/by Jennifer Berezan

 

Saturday  (Childcare times – during all presentations and workshops)

 

8:15     Coffee and Lite Breakfast, Registration

9:00     Welcome – herchurch leaders

            Grounding

            The Sacred Dance 

            Sing Inclusive Hymns

            Key Note – Carol Christ Why Do Jews and Christians Still Pray to a Male God

Whole group, Q & A engagement with Carol Christ

Break

Directed Movement

Feminists/Womanist/Mujerista Contributing Voices: 

  (Galland, Morris, Aldredge-Clanton, Streufert, McCloud)

            Table Talk/Sharing/Reactions

 

Lunch   Provided at 1:00 PM

            Middle Eastern Buffet with Belly Dancer

 

2:30     Grounding

            The Sacred Dance 

            Key Note – Carol Christ

                    Life and Death in Goddess Feminist Thealogy           

Directed Movement

Whole group, Q & A engagement with Carol Christ

Break

 

Feminists/Womanist/Mujerista Contributing Voices:

  (Tate, Deifelt, Ursic, Subbiondo, Boorn)

            Whole group, Q & A engagement

            Goddess Rosary Ritual – Pastor Stacy Boorn

6:30     INCLUSIVE HYMN Sing –

 

            Free Evening or 8:00 PM options:

           

Evening:  Option #1:  Meeting the Divine Feminine, a Labyrinth Experience

                      Leader: Anna Yang

                 Optional Workshop #2, limited to 12, Drumming Circle

                 Optional Workshop #3 REIKI (healing/health) session

                                    with practitioner Rev. Dawn Roginski

                  HELP NEEDED to make box lunches for Sunday

 

                 +Wine/Waters and desserts in the AWEGallery

 

Sunday  (Childcare times – during all presentations and workshops)

 

8:30-10:00 AM,

Open/Self-directed use of Labyrinth, facilitated by Anna Yang

 

9:00 – 10:15     Conversation with Womanist thealogians and

                        Feminist-Liberation theologians 

 

10:30   herchurch Worship – a feminist/inclusive experience and model

 

Light Lunch

Participants able to converse with Carol Christ re Crete Pilgrimages, etc.

 

Afternoon Workshops

 

 

 

WORKSHOPS for Small Groups

 

Sunday Afternoon (1:00 – 2:30 PM and 3:00 – 4:30 PM)

           

1 & 3   by Visionary Artist:       Shiloh McCloud

                        Paper Icons

 

3 pm    by Minister of Embodiment:      Judith Lavender Dancer

                        the body - how we live our connection to earth, to Goddess, to life.

 

1 pm    by Christ-Sophia Scholar Jann-Aldredge-Clanton, Ph. D.

                        Helping Faith Communities move towards Christ-Sophia Inclusivity

 

3 pm    by Religion Scholar Mary Streufert, Ph. D

                        Maternal Sacrifice as a Hermeneutics of the Cross

 

3 pm    by herchurch - Goddess Rosary, thealogy and ritual.  (& bead your own)

 

1 pm    by Karen Tate, Author, Internet Radio, Tours

                 Goddess Sacred Sites

 

3 pm    by Katy Ketchum, producer of “Mary Magdalene”

            Healing “concert” – Toning, chants and song.

 

1 PM   by Reverend Beatrice Morris (ordained in the U.C.C., and a doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley)  Womanist theology/thought

 

1 PM   by Megan Rohrer:  Ordained Lutheran Pastor, director of the Welcome Ministry

            (works with the homeless)  Queer Spirituality

 

1 & 3PM         by A Woman’s Eye Gallery, “Seeing” through the lens

                        methods and tips for improving your photography/imaging

 

 

 

 


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678 Portola Dr. San Francisco, CA 94127
Call 415-731-2953