November 7 – 9, 2008

Come Now, O Wisdom

Faith and Feminism,

Womanist/Mujerista Conference at herchurch

San Francisco, CA

Registration limited to 100

Keynote speaker will be 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:

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

Faith and Feminism, Womanist/Mujerista Conference

November 7-9

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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