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Jewish Feminist Judith Plaskow
I’ll be buying the book from which this quote is excerpted. Wonderful stuff that bears reading two or three times to get the full meaning. If you’re not used to it, this can be difficult to wade...
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An article from Christian Feminism Today
Why Inclusive Language Is Still Important Guest Post by Jann Aldredge-Clanton “We don’t need to do inclusive language any more,” some of the young women tell my professor friend in her intern classes...
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The Power of an Unexpected Pronoun
A guest post by Marg Herder Many years ago, I didn’t think about it. The words for God were male, exclusively. That’s how I was raised. That’s all I knew. I was probably 30 years old before I first...
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From “Mother-Father God” by Renita Weems
The following is from Renita Weem’s blog “Something Within: For Thinking Women of Faith.” It was posted back in 2007. Even those of us who consider ourselves enlightened and deep, and do not believe in...
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God-language and Meat for Idols
A few years ago I had the joy of attending a series of workshops/presentations by Andrew Harvey, who has been called a modern mystic. Two memories stand out. One is his excitement when talking about...
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God of Contradiction: On Language and Liturgyby Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
This article was originally published in “Zeek”, an interesting online magazine. Reposted with the author’s permission. In my early 20s, I began having a certain kind of experience that was so intense,...
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“A God Who Looks Like Me” Quote 2
Here’s another quote from “A God Who Looks Like Me” by Patricia Lynn Reilly. See the previous post for the first one. The following insights inform our woman-affirming spirituality: We have come to...
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The World as God’s Body
I ran across an article by Sallie McFague that, while it doesn’t talk about God-language specifically, has some interesting points and some positive repercussions if the described metaphor were taken...
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