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Until relatively recently, growing up in the Judeo-Christian tradition meant experiencing religion as male dominated. Men were the religious leaders and we prayed to a male God. Historical research tells us that this is not how our religions started. Goddess worship was prominent in the early days of Judaism, including the goddess Asherah, Yahweh’s wife, who was worshipped openly in the Jerusalem Temple. After King Josiah and Prophet Jeremiah, the worship of goddesses became heresy, and women were blamed for God’s wrath. In early Christianity, the authors show how, in the first century AD, Jes
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