Rise Up and Call Her Name

  • Women and Religion Resolution (UUWR) – adopted 1977

    Women and Religion Resolution (UUWR) – adopted 1977

    Participants in the first UUA Women and Religion conference at Grailville, Ohio (1979).
    In 1977 at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly of Unitarian Universalists in Ithaca, New York, the Women and Religion  Resolution was adopted unanimously. This marked an herstoric turning point in the ways in which women participated in Unitarian Universalism at every level.
    Text of the 1977 Women and Religion Resolution

     Educational Materials

    This movement birthed many educational materials.  This includes courses with complete leader’s instructions and supporting excerpted sources, a range of books and other items that celebrate, inform and inspire.
    These materials are available for purchase in the Store at  www.uuwr.org.

    Slideshows on varied aspects of this movement

    These narrated slideshows present information that covers the content and impact of the resolution.

    And then we parted … The final trek to the bus, and back home to “spread the word.”

  • Wisdom from Lucile Longview

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    Commentary by Liz Fisher.

    Lucile was the author of the Women & Religion Resolution, adopted unanimously by the UU General Assembly in 1977. Near the end of her life, Lucile Longview compiled into The Red Notebook her favorite talks and writings about women, which are often auto-biographical and personal.

    Liz Fisher, author of Rise Up & Call Her Name and Gender Justice knew Lucile for 25 years starting in 1984. They often discussed the unique position that Women and Religion occupies in the movement for women’s equality.

    Liz annotated essays and presentations which Lucile wrote and made them available at Lucile’ Red Notebook

  • Overview booklet about the Rise Up Course

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    First Edition Cover Art

    Open this page to download the booklet Overview Snapshots. Key insights and helpful tools from the Rise Up & Call Her Name experience make up this resource. These selections provide a taste of the wide range of important spiritual and cultural material available in this course. Evidence of its impact well beyond the groups who undertook this journey is also included as well as links to related writers.

    Click to Download New Rise Up Booklet, OVERVIEW SNAPSHOTS

     

    RISE UP KIT INCLUDES:
    • narrated DVD of goddesses and art
    • Music CD
    • spiral-bound leader’s guide
    • Sourcebook in searchable PDF format

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  • RISE UP VIDEO

    Watch a one-minute clip from the Rise Up & Call Her Name DVD

     

  • Elizabeth Fisher on the list of the Thirteen Most Influential People in Women’s Spirituality

    Elizabeth Fisher on the list of the Thirteen Most Influential People in Women’s Spirituality

    Art by Pegi Eyers
    Art by Pegi Eyers

    Elizabeth Fisher and Shirley Ranck—

    “Authors of germinal religious education curricula focused on feminist spirituality and woman-honoring traditions, originally published by the UU Women and Religion program, their work with Rise Up & Call Her Name and Cakes for the Queen of Heaven continues to change the lives of women around the country by introducing them to a vision of what the world could be like if the divine was imaged as female.” *
    For more information about Elizabeth Fisher check out these:
    Meet the Author
    Liz Fisher’s Women and Religiou Autobiographical Statement

     

     

    * From the blog of Molly Remer, a UU super goddess woman in her own right: top-thirteen-most-influential-people-in-goddess-spirituality

  • Internet Radio Shows

    Karen Tate, writer, scholar, ritualist, community organizer and more has hosted an amazing internet radio show for many years called Voices of the Sacred. Feminine. Karen interviewed Liz Fisher twice, one on the curriculum she wrote and another on the topic of revision female-male relationships.

    Click on the dates below and the programs come right up, or you can download them into your own player.

     

    Mar. 23, 2011: [Drag the slider to 1:02:27 to get to the start] Enjoy Liz Fisher discussing “Lilith Meets the Green Man” as we look at pre-patriarchal mythologies which provide opportunities to revision female-male relationships in order to counter dangerous ideologies and some cult-like celebrities of today. We relate new interpretations of old archetypes to present social and political hot points replacing “hate talk” with positive modeling. We correct the record regarding myths and symbolism of the apple, the tree of knowledge and the serpent and creatively imagine new possibilities using truth and humor to diffuse attacks and hold up positive possibilities.

     

    Nov. 24, 2010: [Drag the slider to 10:05 to get to the start] Liz Fisher, author of the important curriculum from Unitarian Universalist Women called RISE UP AND CALL HER NAME will discuss the teachings and the herstory associated with the program still relevant and seeing a resurgence today…