Entries by waterstaff

December 2015 WATERritual – Re-Imagining Mary: A Woman Today

This holiday season we continue our monthly ritual series to raise up wise women. In the following ritual, we reflect on Mary as a symbol of the oppressed, the forgotten, and those in search of a home for their children, by looking at the many faces of Mary.

In Memory of Her: Fatema Mernissi

WATER colleague Diana Pierce offers a personal remembrance of Fatema Mernissi, pioneering scholar in Middle Eastern women’s studies and Islamic feminism.

November 2015 WATERritual: Thanks for Wise Women

This Thanksgiving season we express our gratitude for the wise women in our lives. We honor wise women from goddesses to biblical women, women of recorded history to the women in our lives.