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Over the years, I have become much more discerning about the music and the texts that we use. There are many—MANY—hymns that I have dearly loved since childhood, that I just will not use any more, because the theology in them does not reflect an experience of the Divine that I wish to perpetuate. So […]
Lifetime Partner, Loving Friend Antiphon: Lifetime Partner, Loving Friend, Fount of Wisdom, Source and End, She is God, Holy One: Glory! Look! Behold her dark gracefulness, moving between worlds with ease— anywhere she is, her home is! In her wake the waters roll and part and slaves are made a people. […]
The concept of the glass ceiling is not new. In the secular realm, the glass ceiling represents the barrier that prevents qualified individuals from excelling beyond a certain level due to their race, gender, or orientation. For those of us who serve in the sacred or religious realm, we know it as the stained glass […]
Rev. Larry E. Schultz conducts the Chancel Choir of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina, in singing “God Like a Woman Long in Labor Cries” to a familiar hymn tune, with pictures from various artists. This hymn draws from the imagery in Isaiah 42. The prophet Isaiah pictures God crying out “like a woman […]
an article first published in Christian Feminism Today “We don’t need to do inclusive language any more,” some of the young women tell my professor friend in her intern classes at a theological seminary. “That was important when you were going through seminary because there were all men. Inclusive language isn’t important anymore because now […]