I may always think of Rachel Held Evans in May, the month in which she died last year. May is also Mother’s Day month. One of her last tweets in April of last year was this: I’ve written four books, hundreds of blog posts, and dozens of articles, and only once have I used a …
Four Reasons God Is Your Mother, Too Read More »
This week I have been thinking a lot about well-loved progressive Christian writer, Rachel Held Evans, who passed away after a brief illness on Saturday, May 4. In honor of her mission of truth-telling in the church, I am returning to my own calling to help others see the feminine images of God in the …
Sometimes God is the invisible Mother in the Bible, like the moms at the park holding the kids’ jackets. God-as-mother appears in the pages of Scripture, but often in a way that modern readers don’t notice. This Mother’s Day, let’s take time to see and appreciate God’s motherhood in the Bible. We can start with …
The Born Again Have a Mother Read More »
When people tell you that there is no “Mother” title for God in the Bible, talk to them about El Shaddai. Through the ages, translators and scholars have only guessed at the meaning of El Shaddai, which is usually rendered as “God Almighty.” They believe the root “shad” must refer to the Hebrew word shadad meaning …
El Shaddai, The Mother Name of God Read More »
