The Domestic Goddess vs. The Feminine Mistake
There’s a new book out called The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? Forty years after Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique catalyzed the women’s movement, Leslie Bennett’s brand new book "looks at today’s Ivy League-educated stay-at-home moms and asks, ‘Have they made ‘The Feminine Mistake’ by removing themselves from the job market when they [...]
The Life of a Domestic Goddess
On a lighter note, I’m taking a quick detour from neo-pagan goddess worship into the realm of the domestic goddess …. check out this new book for every woman who is NOT Homemaker of the Year (and can I just say that I live in that category): "I am more than just the laundry stain [...]
Al Gore & the Goddess??
I might be a little cranky tonight … I suffered a mild concussion on Saturday and still have a bit of a headache, but something Al Gore wrote is bugging me. Gore has been up front a lot lately, with his award winning documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, winning an Academy Award Sunday [...]
Last of the Musings on Sue Monk Kidd
I was looking at a blog by a pastor the other day who was outraged by the emerging church movement. He was particularly unhappy with Brian McLaren and Rob Bell, and had something like 25 blog posts alone on Bell.I don’t want to spend all my time spitting out cranky blog posts on Sue Monk [...]
Musings on Sue Monk Kidd, part three
In my last post, I wrote a bit about Sue Monk Kidd and her memoir, Dance of the Dissident Daughter. It’s a stunning chronicle of Kidd’s spiritual journey from Christianity to goddess spirituality. She’s very transparent about her emotional and spiritual struggles, and honest about where she finally ends up….here it is, from the end [...]
Musings on Sue Monk Kidd, part two
In my post before last, I put down a few thoughts about Sue Monk Kidd. Her book The Secret Life of Bees continues to be a bestseller and one of those books that seems to really resonate with women. In both fiction and nonfiction, Kidd has written about the spiritual quest that led [...]
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 [...]
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