Archived Radio Show

May 23, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220523

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Duration 57 minutes

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Featuring

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces

2. Carol Kilby, Author, Evolutionary Dancer - Out, In, and On the Fringe of the Church 

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz:  I have a very special guest this morning. Joining me in the studio from Ontario Canada is Carol Kilby, author of the book, “Evolutionary Dancer,” We will be discussing various aspects of spirituality and her journey to make sense of it all for herself.

Ken and I attended two rallies in Santa Rosa on Friday that were combined into one: Bans Off Our Bodies and In Solidarity with Buffalo, NY, Victims of a Mass Shooting by a racist teenage espousing the Replacement Theory. About 75 people showed up with signs and heartily added their voices to the back and forth chants.

I just heard that the Athena House will be closing its doors after 3 decades of service to the community. It served women suffering from substance abuse. I was among the first staff hired, so there is a special place in my heart for the Athena House. I hope we can rally support for it in the County. Contact me if you have ideas.

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2.  Our guest Carol Kilby shares her journey as she first questioned the relevancy of the Christian church in Ontario, in which she participated as a Protestant minister, but which seemed out of touch with the looming crisis of environmental degradation and feminism. Her odyssey exposed her to leading thinkers on ecology and to mystics of the Christian faith that have embraced Creation as well as the Creator. Her book Evolutionary Dancer - Out, In, and On the Fringe of the Church comes from her early love of dance and incorporating that into rituals in the church. Carol discovered the early use of dance in Christianity, as well as in other religions and in pagan rites. As she was exposed to a new cosmology called the Universe Story through Thomas Berry and Brian Swimm. She then sought out their students. Miriam MacGillis taught her earth-literacy to be sensitive to how the Earth speaks to us. Nuns at the Green Mountain Monastery, by laying the Eucharistic bread and wine atop the 13.8-billion-year timeline, demonstrated the Universe itself to be a sacrament, a revelation of the divine. As a Protestant, Carol was unaware of the mystics in the Catholic tradition, but through Rev. Matthew Fox and his Creation Spirituality Institute she learned of the insights of such mystics as Meister Eckart and Hildegard von Bingen, who preached on the revelations of God in Nature. indeed, reading Carol's book Evolutionary Dancer reminded Ken of mystical experiences he has had feeling the oneness with Creation and communicating with Nature while seeking guidance. Carol recognized the evolutionary dancer in all the atoms and subatomic particles, and planets and stars, vibrating their presence among each other evolving moment to moment. Carol’s book takes you on her intimate journey of faith, first awakening her to the lack of Christian response, then to leaving the church’s fold to explore the new cosmologies and its effect on theology, and then to return to share the Good News of creation spirituality with her Christian church with a Gaia Centre for Eco-Spirituality and Sustainable Work. Carol hopes to be an instrument in bringing about a kinder Christianity that is interrelated to Earth. Carol leaves us with a hopeful message, as even within Chaos there are the seeds ordering a new world in the evolutionary dance. Give yourself a treat and listen to the interview. Be sure and read Carol’s book Evolutionary Dancer.

About our Guest: Carol Kilby author of Evolutionary Dancer - Out, In, and On the Fringe of the Church, left the pulpit in 2005 to open Gaia Centre for Eco-Spirituality and Sustainable Work. Her response to the burgeoning climate crisis, she hosted teachers like Matthew Fox, Brian Swimme, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and others living the new oneness cosmology.
An Evolutionary Elder, Kilby lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with a deep time understanding of these critical times. Her book dances through the seasons of the Christian year with original cosmic stories and ends with evolutionary rituals – holidays cast in the 14-billion-year story of the Universe. She describes her life work as “Whatever I can do, say, or write to cooperate with the evolution of humanity, society, and Christianity for the sake of a future free of planet abuse.”

Guest Link:

Carol Kilby's website: www.carolkilby.com

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 Herstory

Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Events:

May 21, 1932 – Amelia Earhart Putnam becomes the first woman to complete a solo-transatlantic flight by flying 2,026 miles from Newfoundland to Ireland in just under 15 hours.

May 21, 1973 – Lynn Genesko, a swimmer, receives the first athletic scholarship awarded to a woman (University of Miami).

Herstory Birthdays:

May 23, 1810 (1850) – Margaret Fuller, journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate, the first full-time American woman book reviewer in journalism, her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the U.S.

May 25, 1889 (1975) – Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson, pioneer civil rights activist, organizer of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, she pioneered the tactic of non-violent resistance.

May 25, 1905 (1995) – Dorothy Wesley, librarian, and historian, one of the first African- American women to earn a master’s degree in library science (Howard University, 1932), as curator of the Moorland-Spingarn Collection at Howard University, she helped it become a world-renowned resource on the history and culture of African Americans.

May 25, 1910 (1997) – Mary Keyserling, economist, Director of the Women’s Bureau of the Labor Department (1964-1969), Executive Director of the National Consumers’ League (1938), and personal advisor to Eleanor Roosevelt in the Office of Civilian Defense.

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Announcements 

May 12- May 29, 2022. Real Women Have Curves, 6th Street Playhouse, Monroe Stage, by Josefina López, directed by Marie Ramirez Downing,
Starring Alexa Jimenez, Reilly Milton, Bethany Regan, Rosa Reynoza and Anakarina Swanson. https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/show/real-women-have-curves-2/ 

Check out our interview on May 16, 2022 by clicking here.

Director Marie Ramirez Downing, cast of Real Women Have Curves: Anakarina Swanson, Rosa Reynoza, Reilly Milton, Alexa Jimenez, and in front Bethany Regan. - 2022 Photo thanks to Michelle Moralles.

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Monday, May 30, 11am # repeats 11pm, the show will be  featuring guest to be announced.   Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live/

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Wednesday May 30, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will will be featuring guest to be announced. Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca/

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Ongoing Events:

Meet our candidates for Superintendent of Sonoma County Schools, Amie Carter, Brad Coscarelli, and Ron Calloway!
For details of this past event of April 18, 2022 see http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html 
Post Event Viewing: For video of event https://youtu.be/VAjoQDwgoBI

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January 22 - June 5, 2022, Exhibition, Agency: Feminist Art and Power, Sonoma County Museum, for more information visit: https://museumsc.org/exhibitions/

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Music Selections

The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just announced - Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview with Alix Dobkin on 12/1/2014 at    and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 11/24/2021  at .

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For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show