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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

 

 

 

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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!

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

 

 

 

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"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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Check our calendar page for listings of events.

Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran
678 Portola Dr. San Francisco, CA 94127
Call 415-681-5400