Come Now, O Wisdom!
A Faith and Feminism/Womanist/Mujerista Conference
– November 7-9, 2008
Resistance and Reception of
the Feminine Divine/Goddess
Keynote Presenter:
Carol Christ, Ph. D.
Artist in Residence:
Shiloh
Sophia McCloud
Minister of Embodiment: Judith Lavender Dancer
Friday
3:00 PM
Pre-Conference gathering
Women Clergy/Faith Leaders and Carol Christ
Catered Dinner for women leaders/clergy
5:30 – 6:30
Registration
5:30 PM
A Women’s Eye Gallery – Visual Spirituality (weekend)
AWE Annex – Shiloh McCloud Exhibit (Weekend)
Weekend
Coffee Bar, water, snacks in the AWE Gallery
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Introduction – Pr. Stacy Boorn
Grounding: Musician Jennifer Berazen
The Sacred Dance
Key Note –Carol Christ
Celebrating 30 years –Why Women
Need the Goddess
Then, now and where we need to
go......
Whole group, Q & A engagement with Carol
Christ
Sacred Sending
Saturday (Childcare times/program
TBA)
Coffee and Lite Breakfast, Registration
Welcome – herchurch leaders
Grounding
The Sacred Dance
Sing Inclusive Hymns
Key Note – Carol Christ Why Resistance to the Goddess/Divine Feminine
Break
Directed Movement
Feminists/Womanist/Mujerista Contributing
Voices:
(Galland, Morris, Aldredge-Clanton, Streufert, McCloud)
Whole group, Q & A engagement with Carol Christ
Table Talk/Sharing/Reactions
Lunch Provided at
1:00 PM
Grounding
The Sacred Dance
Key Note – Carol Christ, -Breaking Free from Patriarch Paradigms
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
INCLUSIVE HYMN Sing –
Free Evening or options:
Evening: Optional Workshop
#1, limited to 20, “Ritual and the Labyrinth”
Leader: Anna Yang
Optional Workshop #2, limited to 20, Drumming Circle
Wine/Waters and desserts in the AWEGallery
Sunday
8:30-10:00 AM,
Open/Self-directed use of Labyrinth, facilitated by Anna Yang
9:00 – 10:15
Conversation with Beatrice Morris, Womanist thealogian and Wanda Deifelt, Ph. D. Feminist-Liberation
Theologian
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
Saturday Evening, 8:00 PM
by Labyrinth Facilitator Anna Yang
Walking, Experiencing, Learning Labyrinth Ritual
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 Gabrielle
Schroeder, Ph. D. and Pastor
Goddess Wearable Art as Devotional Action