OBOS, first published in 1970 as Women and Their Bodies, A Course, was one of the central texts of the…
motherhood
Beyond “Mother Goddess and God the Father”
To ponder divine motherhood is not as natural and comfortable a task for an ecofeminist scholar as one might imagine.…
Mothers of the disappeared in Lebanon
The mothers, through their politics of presence . . . become mediators between the state and the absentee, negotiating the…
Being mother/being God
In Jewish theology, an aura of heresy still clings to the metaphor of God as mother.
Martha, Mary, Meister Eckhart: A mystical provocation to mothers as host bodies
Theological and popular conceptions of motherhood have shifted significantly over the centuries, reflecting accompanying political motives and holding powerful implications…
Divine!
I am interested in mothers that are fathers, fathers that are mothers, and other forms of queer gestation and parenting.
Motherhood on the hinge
By the time I encountered Marie de l’Incarnation and the gripping story of her decision to abandon her eleven-year-old son…
Must a female God mother?
As we seek to reimagine God, I am not sure that the corrective to the damage that has been done…