Spring 2010

by Lauren Kaye Clark

The issue pertaining to the use of religion as a utensil for women’s oppression appears to have become highly prominent and attentive in the mainstream.  The recent announcement made by former U.S. President (and Nobel Prize Laureate) Jimmy Carter to leave the Southern Baptist Convention because of its silencing and oppression of women and girls stirred many emotions, and “scored points” with women who have been fighting to present these issues to the public. 

By Mari Ziolkowski

Cartimandua and Boudicca – two women leaders living in what we now call the British Isles in CE 40 or so – one a Brigante tribal queen, the other a warrior leader of the Iceni.  Both were confronted with the Roman invasion of their homelands.  Both women had to make tough decisions about how best to protect their people.  What do their decisions have to say to women today who continue to find themselves living in a male-dominated society?

by Susun S Weed

My friend Elsa always talked to plants. I thought she was crazy. Safely insane, but definitely disassociated from reality. Until the plants laughed at me.

by Samjhana Moon

During the summer of 2009 I gave birth to an idea that would enhance the lives of sixteen women and offer hope to thousands more. A fresh new approach to women in the world of photography: intimate portraits of everyday women embracing nature, exploring vulnerability and challenging society's view of the modern woman in the present environment.

A Goddess Retreat with Kiawahine on Maui, Hawaii January 2010

by Kathy Jones

There were to be three of us leading our Goddess Retreat on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Maui: – Dr Apela Colorado, Lydia Ruyle and myself.

reviewed by Geraldine Charles

I grew up almost in the shadow of Pendle Hill, so stories of the seventeenth-century witch-hunt are familiar and haunting.  I remember pinching my mother’s copy of Robert Neill’s Mist over Pendle to read by torchlight under the bedclothes, and later finding Harrison Ainsworth’s rather Gothic Lancashire Witches interesting but ultimately unsatisfactory. 

Rachael Clyne visited Crete with Goddess Tours International in October 2009

It was back in 1986 when, grappling with lack of sense of myself as feminine, that I first visited Crete. I barely knew the word Goddess, but as I stepped from the aeroplane She swept me up with loving warmth and into a journey of discovery and profound past connection with Her. If you want to experience Goddess culture you cannot do better than Minoan Crete.

Reviewed by Geraldine Charles

I enjoyed this book more than I expected to, for I can’t remember the last time I teetered around on high heels but it was probably some time in the early 1970s – and yet I do relate in many ways to the seekers whom Alice describes – modern women who are just ridiculously busy and for whom “….any attempt at meditation has ended in a mental mediation between plans for supper … or fretting over the bills..”.  How well many of us will know that feeling!