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Dr. Annette Lyn Williams
Her dissertation now available to the public!
Full Circle with Goddess (for Judy Grahn)
by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, from the book Your Face in the Fire (2024)
Karen Pearlman (In Memoriam)
We are sad to report the passing of Karen Pearlman, who many of us affectionately knew as Wren, of Wren’s Runes. We just learned this news last week, though she transitioned in February, and want to honor her memory here with some wonderful images, including her with...
Praise Qadesha
Praise Qad’shu – Lady, Star of Heaven
Moyuba, Highest Praises
A Prayer by Carolyn Brandy from “Talking to Goddess” (2009)
A Midrash on Bereishit/Genesis ~ PART 1
From my midrash on Bereishit and Lilith for Ner Shalom, October 16, 2020: Since our parasha tonight is Bereishit and Lilith, the first woman in Jewish mythology appears in Genesis 5:2, I will be talking about Her, a figure who made such an impression on me in 1985...
Midrash on Bereishit/Genesis ~ PART 2: HER STORY
HER STORY… According to Jewish legend, Lilith was Adam’s first wife and Eve’s predecessor. In the most commonly told version of the tale, she is made from the earth, as is Adam. For this reason, she refuses to lie beneath Adam sexually, and when he insists, she...
Invocation to Inanna-Ishtar / Lilith / Shekhinah
As I was wrestling with Lilith, wondering what She wanted from me and where else the Sacred Feminine lived within Judaism, I was inspired to write my first piece of liturgy. I have updated it a bit but my kavanah, my intention remains the same. Invocation to...
A Feminist Metaformic Thea/theology
A key piece of my doctoral work was the metaformic thea/theology I constructed, which grew out of Judy Grahn’s metaformic theory/philosophy, which posits that women’s rituals created and maintain culture, indeed that they teach us what it means to be...
Liturgy to Lilith
A fresh example of the ways we can re-vision icons and mythical-religious symbols, from mythologist, writer and sex activist Cosi Fabian (1991).
I am Lilith, Grandmother of Mary Magdalene.
I am Lilith, whose sexual fire was too hot for God…