Women make up half of the world’s population and yet represent 70 percent of the world’s poor. Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, produce half of the world’s food, but earn only ten percent of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property. Girls born into poverty are subject to abandonment and left to die through the practice of female infanticide. As youngsters, […]
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Katie Bickell | From there to here
It was a dream. In it, I wandered the halls of my old high school a last time, willing myself to find reason not to leave, Hey, you still need to sign my yearbook! Do you have summer plans this year, Ms. Ringrose? The future is a promise of only disappointment, fear. I’ll do anything to stay. With every tick of the clock hanging over the exit, I pang for […]
Pamela Burditt | Mother
I SEEK TO BE LOVING and nurturing, understanding, compassionate, insightful, intuitive, creative, and wise. I seek divine femininity. I want that spark to ignite a deeper spiritual reality in me, one of creativity, love and wisdom. One I can share. When my children experience the messiness of life, I want them to know I won’t leave. That I’m there to help heal and enlighten, renew and restore. I seek to […]
Rabbi Michael Lerner | The Jewish response to injustice
Jewish theology holds that there is a karmic order, so that evil actions will not always run the world. Justice and compassion are both essential to the survival of the planet. Unlike many religions that focus on individual sinners and imagine that they will be punished in some future not currently verifiable—for example in a heaven or hell after life, or in a reincarnation in some form that provides rewards […]
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