It's time for feminine images of God

Our sisters in the Church of England are pushing for gender inclusive language in liturgy...  They have a good shot at making progress.  Rome needs to move forward on this issue as well.

From Women and the Church (WATCH): ‘Let God be a She’ – the national conversation about a God without gender.

Orthodox theology teaches us that all human beings are made in the image of God.

As Rev Jody Stowell put it to The Guardian, "God encompasses gender – he is both male and female and beyond male and female. So when we only speak of God in the male form, that’s actually giving us a deficient understanding of who God is.”  continue

From the Guardian: Let God be a 'she', says Church of England women's group

A group within the Church of England is calling for God to be referred to as female following the selection of the first female bishops.

The group wants the church to recognize the equal status of women by overhauling official liturgy, which is made up almost exclusively of male language and imagery to describe God.  continue