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Why Mothers Matter as much as Fathers in Shaping our Perception of God
By: Susanne Maynes | September 12, 2024
God ordained families to ensure children are begotten and raised by both image-bearers—male and female. Do we honestly think the way a mother interacts with her growing children in their formative years has nothing to do with how they see God later in life?
Three (Faulty) Objections to Feminine Language for God
By: Jeff Miller | June 6, 2024
People who argue against using feminine God-language often resort to fine-tuned objections—so fine that they don’t stand up to scrutiny. Christians do not get upset when we talk about God, or even to God, using descriptions and titles that are not used in exactly the same way in the Bible. Therefore, we should [...]
God's Grace for the Breastfeeding Pastor
By: Lindsey Funtik | May 9, 2024
Breastfeeding is one illustration of those elements of life which God can use as vessels for our own growth and experience of the love that cradles us so closely. Pouring ourselves out like an offering of love takes us further into the heart of God.
Born into God’s Kingdom: A Sermon on John 3:1–21
By: Juliann Bullock | January 31, 2024
John’s theologically weighty metaphor of rebirth is insightfully feminine, underlining the Christian’s dependence on God.
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.
Book Review: Three in One: Analogies for the Trinity
By: Christa L. McKirland | February 15, 2023
An expert voice on the absence of hierarchy in the Trinity.
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.”
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]