Musings on Sue Monk Kidd
“… I sensed rebirth as my heart opened wider toward the Divine Feminine presence.” –from Dance of the Dissident Daughter, by Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees has been hugely popular with women, its story of mothers lost and found, along with the promise of a great universal mother/goddess, selling over four million [...]
Interview with Ward Gasque, Part 2
More from scholar and historian Ward Gasque … Q. How has Dan Brown’s best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, contributed to the current debate on goddess spirituality? A. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code professes to celebrate ‘the sacred feminine" and the emancipation of women. But take a close look at the book. There are [...]
Interview with Ward Gasque
I recently interviewed Ward Gasque, a much respected New Testament scholar and historian. Here’s what he had to say … Q. Is religion, as a whole, on the decline?A. G. K. Chesterton once said, "When men cease to believe in God, they do not believe in nothing; they believe in anything." Until recently, many Europeans [...]
Goddess Trends
Goddess spirituality seems to be growing in popularity. In our culture, it doesn’t take long for the merchants to cash in on the latest craze. From time to time, I’ll highlight some of the things I find as I’m researching my goddess worship book. The latest is from a friend, who saw goddess jewelry featured [...]
Goddess worship = Wicca, Part Two
In a recent e-mail interview with Russ Wise, I asked him if goddess worship and Wicca are the same thing. Here’s what he had to say: "The followers of Wicca worship the feminine energies as realized in Gaia. The Earth is believed to be a goddess and the eternal source and giver of all life. [...]
Goddess worship = Wicca?
In my research, one question that has arisen several times is this: are goddess worship and Wicca the same thing? It’s an important question. Put it this way: If you are exploring goddess spirituality, you might think twice if you know you are actually exploring witchcraft. (For the record, Wicca and witchcraft are the same [...]
Buffet Spirituality
Do you like buffets? One of the most sumptuous meals I’ve ever enjoyed was a seafood buffet at Caesar’s, Lake Tahoe. I remember huge orange knots of king crab legs, piles of oysters, and shrimp of every size. The lobster ravioli were to die for—rich, creamy, very satisfying. Buffets are fun–load up a plate with [...]
A Man in the Sky, Part 2
More from Marjorie Corbman … Q. How would you share your faith with someone involved in goddess worship? A. If someone who practiced goddess worship came up to me and said, let’s say, “I don’t understand how you can believe what you believe—isn’t what I believe better?”—I would advise them simply to seriously look at [...]
A Man in the Sky
There are some people that feel things very deeply, that abandon themselves to experience the world of the spirit in a way that most of us will not this side of heaven. Marjorie Corbman is one of those people. Luckily, she has a golden pen and can translate matters of the spirit into powerful, poignant [...]
The “Magick Family”
I’ve been wondering how this religion called goddess worship (or goddess spirituality) fits with witchcraft/wicca. Are they the same thing? Are they related, but separate belief systems? If so, how closely are they related? Popular guidebooks differ, so I finally decided to make a trek to the library and dig into one of those dusty [...]
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