I just read two awesome books called Finding Holy Spirit Mother by scholar Ally Kateusz and Our Mother The Holy Spirit by scholar Marianne Widmalm. According to them, there is good evidence that the early church and Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as Mother. This feminine metaphor for the Holy Spirit was edited right out of Christian texts […]
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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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Do we have to make God the Mother a love muffin and God the Father the Big Boss? Does God the Father get to be Omni-Everything and God the Mother simply present? If we 1) become aware of our own unconscious, societally-based sexism; 2) correspondingly adjust our view of mothers; and 3) see how power
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Recently, I got a chance to see how the Mother God Experiment is working, when I wasn’t able to spend time in Swallow’s Nest or the Divine Feminine Version of the New Testament for a week. I found myself reverting to “Lord,” here, “God” there, and lots of “Jesus” with not any Mother Gods coming out of my mouth,
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In The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis writes, “I do not for a moment question that Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” He is speaking of storge love. (The Greek language has more than one word for love). This is parent-child love, the love that keeps family
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I called on three Athena-like prayer warriors via email, after Marshall’s PTSD symptoms re-emerged with bunny Acorn’s death. Soon after, Marshall was peaceful again, happy with being mayor of Animal Crossing on his Nintendo. Yesterday, he went to hippotherapy and music therapy. He learned to groom a horse and got a piano lesson. The therapies
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As I try to understand the gospels, I like to think about what rabbis normally said and how they said it. I imagine that listening to one was a bit like hanging out on the streets of New York City, overhearing conversations spoken with vehemence. Rabbis were hyperbolic and maybe a bit brash to make
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Yesterday, Marshall wanted to know about his dad’s experiences of being parented as a child in the 1960s. Behaviorism was the norm back then; a lot of kids were expected to do chores on threat of punishment, and spanked or hit for disobedience. Marshall said, “Is God like that?” His words echoed in the spiritual
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Women, Children and Sheep Could the Lord be my Shepherdess? The more I find out about sheep, the more shepherds and shepherdesses remind me of God as Mother. Margaret Feinberg writes about her time with a shepherdess in Oregon in Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey. I don’t
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Marshall has been in the thick of unbelief again. He said on Sunday, “I believe Jesus did miracles, but not that he rose from the dead.” He thinks Jesus was a lucky fluke of evolution. I’ve noticed Marshall’s faith in God’s existence fluctuates with whether I’m reading something inspiring to him daily. We found some
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