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 …
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In my 20s, a friend gave me Julian of Norwich’s 14th century book in which she writes of God as mother. I told my friend I wasn’t ready for it. What I knew was that Jesus called God Father. And I was at least 95% devoted to Jesus and what He did. Though I knew it …
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Mother God bugs people. She rocks the church-boat. She downright infuriates some. So, how can calling God Mother help us? The loving, safe associations we often have with Mother change our inner image of God, or feelings and attitude toward God, sometimes dramatically. The mother metaphor helps us form a truer picture of God than …
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I’ve been a Christian feminist since college, but it was only about ten years ago that I started seriously thinking about my image of God. I had a spiritual director who noticed that I wasn’t so good at trusting God. My God image was missing something. Could it be I needed to explore the metaphor …
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