WATER Meets the Moment
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) joins a worried world in contemplating the global impact of the U.S. Presidential Election. Those who are poor and marginalized, women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, immigrants, and Earth itself have every reason to tremble.
We seek to live not in fear, but in committed hope. WATER persists for justice with passion.
We are grateful for the many expressions of support and solidarity shared with the Alliance. We join our energies in collaborative efforts to make love, equity, inclusion, and non-violence the hallmarks of a wonderful world.
To that end, we offer this music to soothe troubled souls today. Then tomorrow, we rise together strengthened for and committed to the challenges ahead.
“Can we be like drops of water falling on the stone
Splashing, breaking, dispersing in air
Weaker than the stone by far but be aware
That as time goes by the rock will wear away
And the water comes again”
From “The Rock Will Wear Away” by Holly Near
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcgh1rw-DTY
“Let justice roll down like water.”
Thank you for being part of WATER.
Mary E. Hunt, Diann L. Neu,
Magdalena Müller, Wed Naji, Anali North Martin, Emily Neufeld
Upcoming Programs
WATER and Women of Dignity’s Quarterly Meeting
Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 11:30 AM ET
“What Would Mary Say?”, an Advent Liturgy
December in the Christian religious calendar focuses on Mary, a woman of Nazareth and the mother of Jesus. We see her indelible influence in art, culture, and social justice. For many, she has informed how we experience the world. What would she say today? We will look at the many faces of Mary and focus on her as a symbol of those who are oppressed, forgotten, and in search of community, an immigrant single mother under duress. Her numbers are legion.
*This event is open to all Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Women as well as those identifying as Nonbinary/Gender Expansive and all our women friends.
WATERmeditation
Monday, December 9, 2024 at 7:30 PM ET with Kate Moody
“Inner Light”
As daylight is shortened in the Northern Hemisphere and light bursts forth in the Southern, we will look into strategies for cultivating and connecting with our inner light. Join WATER in meditation as we seek creative, committed ways forward.
WATERritual
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM ET
“A Solstice of Resistance, Solidarity, and Recommitment” with Diann L. Neu and the WATER community
This Solstice season, winter in the Northern hemisphere and summer in the South, is a chance to pause, reconsider, refresh, recommit. The darkness, dormancy, and silent beauty of winter offer time for new visions to emerge. Mysteries lie in darkness. The warmth of the summer sun heralds new opportunities. We will celebrate it all honoring resistance, solidarity, and recommitment together.
Charlotte Bunch: Lesbian Feminist Activist with Religious Roots in Conversation with Mary E. Hunt
February 12, 2025 at 1 PM ET
Join us to hear this incisive conversation about the progression of lesbian feminism and its intersections with religion with global feminist activist Charlotte Bunch and feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt. This dialogue will explore Bunch’s early religious activism and her analysis of how religion influenced—and was challenged by—LGBTQ activism and lesbian feminism, in particular. Hunt and Bunch will reflect on how LGBTQ and religious experiences evolved in global settings. Together they will reflect on where we are today as much of what we have achieved is threatened and discuss how we can collaborate across differences to bring insights from faith perspectives that might be helpful to the doing of justice.
Co-hosted by LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) & Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)
Intern at WATER
Be a Part of an Action-based Community
Become a WATER Intern
for Winter or Spring!
WATER welcomes students from seminaries, universities, colleges, volunteer programs, and more to work in the WATER office.
Interns at WATER engage in the full range of activities from office work to program planning. They learn how a small non-profit is run and what it takes to nurture an Alliance. Those wishing to do their own research will have a chance to utilize WATER’s constantly growing Resource Center as well as consult with our experienced staff through in-house seminars.
Interns must commit to a minimum of six weeks and can stay for as long as a year or two. All participants are encouraged to apply for academic credit from their home institutions for their work at WATER. We are delighted to work with programs which sponsor volunteers with expenses shared by WATER as the on-site placement.
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Land Acknowledgement
WATER, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, acknowledges that it sits on the traditional and contemporary homeland of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank (sometimes known as the Anacostan) people, the original stewards of this land.
We are committed to lifting up the names of these lands and the community members from these nations who reside alongside us and who were here long before we were. We affirm WATER’s intention to promote healing, respect, and love for all people through our work, with special indebtedness to Native people whose lands we are privileged to share.