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God as Motherly Father and Fatherly Mother

By: Joshua Robert Barron | August 7, 2023

Learning from ancient theologians and from twenty-first-century African Christians can help Christians worldwide grow in theological maturity. They help us, for example, understand that the grammatical gender of pronouns referring to God varies from language to language. 

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Book Review: Women and the Gender of God

By: Todd Edmondson | February 15, 2023

God “harbors no preference for males because God the Father is not male and God the Son is male like no other.” 

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New Voices: The Gender of God with Dr. Amy Peeler

By: Erin Moniz, Blake Dean, Amy Peeler  | January 13, 2023

What are the implications of assigning the male gender to God? If God isn’t male, then why do we call God “Father”? Blake & Erin speak with Dr. Amy Peeler about her new book, Women and the Gender of God. 

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Video: Using Biblical Female Imagery to Bolster Self-Esteem in Women

By: Wilma Faye Mathis, Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer | November 2, 2022

Part of the challenge of Galatians 3:28 is to encourage women, servants/slaves, and Gentiles to overcome the lowered self-esteem they may have received as a result of suffering oppression. Substituting positive images for the negative images those oppressed now endure may be helpful in raising self-esteem. For this task, this ministry-oriented workshop first examines feminine [...]

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Audio: Using Biblical Female Imagery to Bolster Self-Esteem in Women

By: Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer, Wilma Faye Mathis | November 2, 2022

Part of the challenge of Galatians 3:28 is to encourage women, servants/slaves, and Gentiles to overcome the lowered self-esteem they may have received as a result of suffering oppression. Substituting positive images for the negative images those oppressed now endure may be helpful in raising self-esteem. For this task, this ministry-oriented workshop first examines feminine [...]

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Women and the Gender of God

By: Amy Peeler  | October 4, 2022

A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male.

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Intersectionality: Words Matter! Freedom through Lectionary and Bible Translation with Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney

By: Angela Ravin-Anderson, Rev. Wil Gafney | August 19, 2022

Angela sits down with Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, Bible scholar, episcopal priest and the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School.

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The Father and the Feminine: Assessing the Grammar of Gender-Inclusive God Language

By: Spencer Miles Boersma | August 9, 2022

Feminine language is in the Bible and has been used in Christian worship, which implies that any male-exclusivist position is not an authentically conservative one.

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The Motherly Compassion of God

By: Erica McNair | July 13, 2022

Is God strong, vigilant, and manly? Or compassionate, merciful, and motherly? What if it’s both? Let’s explore more deeply the implications of the compassion of God for how we understand femininity and motherhood.

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