Monica Sjoo – a very brief obituary

Monica Sjoo – a very brief obituary Monica Sjoo, December 31, 1938–August 8, 2005, was a Swedish anarcho-feminist artist and writer, who spent more than half her life in England and Wales. Her 1968 painting God Giving Birth marks the start of second wave feminist art...

The End of Stories?

The End of Stories? Last summer I had the pleasure of listening to Dovie Thomason at two storytelling fesitvals, both Beyond the Border and Festival at the Edge. Dovie is a Native American storyteller, whose background is Lakota Sioux and Apache. She told stories...

Sacred Lands Conference

Sacred Lands Conference ASLaN is the Ancient Sacred Landscape Network. I don’t like their name, perhaps because (unlike many of the people involved) I first read the Narnia stories at an age where the Christian propaganda, and the Christ nature of the great lion...

The Sacred Land Project

The Sacred Land Project I was very pleased to be invited, as editor of Wood and Water, to the English launch of the Sacred Land Project, at St. Mary’s Church, Willesden (where there has been a Christian church for a thousand years) on April 23rd 1997 — the Scottish...

The Sacred Circle Workshop

The Sacred Circle Workshop I was at a workshop in the USA called “The Sacred Circle: an indigenous world view”, led by Native Americans. It was very impressive, and left me feeling inspired and strengthened. The most important thing for me was the combination of...