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Connecting with the Goddess
Love Your Body, Love Yourself
Faith and Feminism Conference
Minister of Embodiment
We come together,
finding FUN ways to enter into the body and love ourselves fully using writing, drawing, moving, stillness, sound, breathing
and touch. This is a time for creative exploration and support from other women,
for being ourselves and truly experiencing ourselves fully.
No movement
or drawing experience is necessary.
Wear loose,
layered warm clothing, bring a pillow to sit on, and a blanket to lie on.
For more information about other oppurtunities,
contact Judith lavenderdancer@sbcglobal.net.
Judith Lavender Dancer of BodyConnect
is a dancer, healer and movement educator, specializing in finding new ways to connect with ourselves through the body. She
has a BA in Theatre from San
Francisco State University
and a Certificate in Mime from Chabot College.
Her work incorporates teachings from both Western and Eastern modalities, including Feldenkrais, Chi Qong, clowning, Bioenergetics,
belly dancing, improvisation, meditation, and stilt dancing. Judith also works with individuals.
EVERY WEDNESDAY, the sanctuary of Ebenezer is open from
7:00 - 8:00 PM. Goddess Rosary Beads will be available for use during that time. Prayers and suggested meditations will
be on hand as well as incense, candles and bells. Community spoken Goddess Rosary will be conducted at twenty minute intervals:
7:10,
7:30 and 7:50 PM. You may come and go as you wish, and use the prayer stations at any time. In an attempt to use Biblical, century old images and developing connections with the Holy Other this Goddess
rosary is grounded in traditions of the Christian Church and the proclamation of the gospel which is a vision of release from
bondage for a new creation. Midweek is a good time for you to re-center your
hectic paced week and allow the sacred to surround and embrace you.
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The living
Goddesses and the
works
of Marija Gimbutas.
Sunday afternoons from 4:00 – 5:30 PM
NEXT
sessions TBA
A Woman's Eye
Gallery Annex
www.herchurch.org
Ebenezer Lutheran,
678 Portola Dr. San Francisco
Marija Gimbutas’
work on the Neolithic cultures of old Europe (6500 –
3500 BCE) reveals evidence of peaceful, woman-honoring, Goddess-worshiping, and egalitarian civilization that existed for
thousands of years without war. The primary text will be “The Living Goddesses”
by Marija Gimbutas. Facilitator is Pastor Stacy Boorn of herchurch.
Topic schedule:
Sacred Symbols, Goddess Language
Matrilineal Society and Religion
Video “Signs out of Time”
Minoan, Celtic, etc.
Goddess, Faith, Feminism
for more information
contact Pastor Stacy Boorn at
415-731-6470
sboorn@aol.com
What implications does Goddess worship of
Old Europe (including the Minoans of Crete, 3,000 – 1,400 BCE) have for our spirituality
and the various religious traditions we have grown up with or presently claim?
Look at the language of the Goddess found
in art, symbols, egalitarian and matrilineal/focal communities and rituals. Reclaiming
She Who Is.
Learn more about Marija Gimbutas:
http://www.belili.org/marija/aboutmarija.html
Introductory reading:
Why Women Need the Goddess by Carol
Christ
http://www.goddessariadne.org/whywomenneedthegoddess.htm
Scroll down for: Helping Hands... Love
Your Body....
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Recommended Reading:
In
Search of the Christ-Sophia: An inclusive Christology for Liberating Christians. by Jann Aldredge-Clanton.
Beads
of Faith. By Gray Henry and Susannah Marriott.
The Five Gospels:
New Testament and Commentary by Robert Funk, Roy Hoover and the Jesus Seminar.
The Women's Bible Commentary.
Carol A Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, editors.
Written That You May Believe,
Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel. by Sandra M. Scheiders.
Saving Jesus From Those
Who Are Right by Carter Heyward.
She Is Everywhere! by Lucia
Chavola Birnbaum. www.iuniverse.com/bookstore
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HELPING HANDS:
VOLUNTEER at the "Drop-In-Center" at Sts. Mary and Martha Lutheran Church at 24th
and Van Ness. Open Monday - Thursday from 2:00 - 5:00 PM offering not only a warm and comfortable place for homeless
men, women and children to gather but find various people resources and support.
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CHOIR REHEARSALS at 9:45 AM each Sunday in the Sanctuary. The choir is a small grouo, inviting
people who wish to sing and no prior training necessary. Steve has lots of new music planned for the Fall, Advent
and Christmas seasons. EVERYONE is welcome to join the choir. If you're attending
the Adult Study classes that meet in the Fireside Room on Sunday mornings, Steve can give you the music to practice at
home and you can join in after the class ends. If needed, we'll arrange for child care during the rehearsal time. Our
goal is to have the choir learn new hymns, liturgies and special music to enrich our worship service. If you have any questions,
call Steve at 415-334-4729 (home) or 415-447-0255 (work). AND HAVE FUN!
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FRIDAY NIGHT GROUP FOR WOMEN:
Friday June 6, 2008 7:00 PM
Each first Friday of the month for women who want to BE TOGETHER....explore thealogy, faith, and spirituality: claim and celebrate the Sacred Feminine
in our lives and world .... relax and laugh!.
We create a safe and sacred space where we can speak freely, think creatively, ask questions, and open our hearts and
minds to new hopes and possibilities...and/or JUST BE!
Main Dish Provided
bring sides, dessert, bread, wine
Location: Pastor’s Home
Topic: Letters to our younger selves
call for location 415-731-6470
RSVP to me (Stacy) if you know you are attending. You are always welcome at last minute if your schedule is uncertain! Call 415-731-6470
for location.
When women name the holy -- not just in themselves, but in all those different elements that the historical fact of
being female gives them a chance of confronting or understanding -- they are not just making themselves feel better, they
are giving the Christian community a God-gift. - Sara Maitland.
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Ebenezer will be hosting
November 7-9, 2008
A Faith and Feminism
Womanist/Mujerista Conference
A gathering for feminist faith seekers, church leaders,
Interfaith leaders 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.
Keynote Speaker
Carol Christ
Other faculty includs
Artists Sophia McCloud and Judith Dancer
and an interfaith panel.
DETAILS
"A politically committed spirituality contends against wrong
without becoming wrongly contentious. It confronts national self-righteousness without personal self-righteousness.
It cherishes God's creation; it serves the poor; it is not interested in the might of a nation but in the goodness of
its people." –
William Sloan Coffin (1924-2006)
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Bay Area Beauty
Photo Treks
The Spirituality of Nature
and Aesthetic Vision
We invite you to join in photographic pilgrimage, to visit Bay
Area beauty that awakens awe, moves us to marvel, inspires and enriches our inner vision.
Saturday June 7
Tide Pool and Coastal
Photography
Great Minus Tides = Great
Tide Pools. Meet at the Church to car pool at 7:00am. We’ll check out the
tide pools at Pescadero and the Marsh Lands. That’ll
take ‘till noon. Then a picnic lunch, your own, or purchased in Pescadero (great fresh artichoke bread at Norm’s
Market —oh yes it is delicious). In the afternoon shoot at Pebble
Beach with the elegant pebbles in the small holes and caverns in the
rocks. Rock creatures can be found too, if/when the light is right.
See www.Photochrome.org for an article on Tide Pool Photography in the June Color News.
Whether
you are shooting for your own enjoyment, or to ultimately publish and sell your images, these photo treks will help you expand
your own vision and technical skills. In addition to being technically correct,
successful photography requires one’s images to be aesthetically pleasing to communicate a particular feeling or mood. Every photographer can learn how to capture and convey the feelings and mood that
they see in an image.
Led by Photographer Stacy Boorn each program is designed to
accommodate photographers at every skill level (novice to advanced amateur). In addition to working in some of the most beautiful
sites in the Bay Area you will have access to individualized and group instruction.
Featuring: Exposure, Equipment, Creative and Contemporary Techniques,
Landscape, Close-ups, Films, Digital, Nature and lots of FUN at fantastic locations.
A minimal fee of $15 is charged each session to cover car pool
expenses and educational materials. Photo treks are sponsored by Ebenezer Lutheran
Church Community Programs. MEET at 678 Portola Drive,
church parking lot for each session.
For details or TO REGISTER call Stacy Boorn at 415-731-6470
or email SBOORN@aol.com. Sessions usually accommodate 6 – 20 persons.
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