Category: Balancing Gender

Recently I had the privilege to co-conduct a conference with Teilhardian scholar and Franciscan Ilya Delio in the Orlando area and during our exchanges she

The Divine Feminine is found in the East as well as the West. Consider these examples: Tao In China the Tao is honored as “the

Jesus and the divine feminine intersect often.  Here are just a few examples : Jesus derives from the Wisdom tradition of Israel that is nature-based

The feminine face of God was not altogether wiped out by patriarchy  She returned as Wisdom and as Shekinah in the Hebrew Scriptures.  And she

Dorothee Soelle, author, activist, and feminist liberation theologian of the late 20th century, wrote that “the language of religion is the language of mysticism.”  She

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