The Old Testament writers use the mother bird metaphor for God. For me, it’s a new category of feminine imagery for God, as I don’t think of the winged creatures as female when I read the Old Testament. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, in The Divine Feminine: Biblical Imagery of God as Female, says there are two […]
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 like what Trump has inadvertently done for women lately. He has made public what is often a private and shame-filled event: the invasion of a woman’s body and person, used as an object of gratification and domination. Conversation is happening that is potentially healing for women and enlightening for men. My husband courageously wrote today on
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The passage about personified Wisdom in Proverbs 8 is controversial: The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was formed long ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be. When there were no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs
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