Category: Balancing Gender

A memorable moment for me some time ago was stopping by Marshfield, Massachusetts, where the ocean had kept me in the order nineteen years earlier. 

An expression of the Divine Feminine found in Hildegard is her wish for a church that is a “bride of Christ, inviolate virgin, mother of

The patriarchal tradition has ignored the implications of God’s motherly side and of our responsibility to develop the mother in ourselves, whether we are women

Hildegard of Bingen, medieval abbess, physician, philosopher, naturalist, composer, poet, author and linguist, describes a vision she had about the Divine Feminine. “I heard a

I have long been interested in the Black Madonna—ever since, back in my first year of my doctoral studies in France, I stood in Chartres

A theme that deserves attention in an ecological spirituality and which the creation-centered mystics develop is that of the motherhood of God.  Hildegard praises “Mother