Lent: The Divine Feminine, Day 30 Why bother with any of this? What is there to gain by understanding God in terms of the feminine? The goal here of course is not to replace the masculine. Nor diminish the masculine. Rather the same goal of Feminism in our culture should be sought in divinity. We … Continue reading Lent, Day 30

Lent:The Divine Feminine, Day 29 Where does this notion of the Divine Feminine come from? Is the question of the Divine Feminine simply a current fad? A silly notion of even sillier feminists? Or could it possibly have deep and ineradicable roots in the tradition itself? However much we mock the idea, the truth is, … Continue reading Lent, Day 29

Lent: The Divine Feminine, Day 28 Hosea 13:8 “Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and tear them asunder…” The other day I was pulling into a parking spot as a mother and her little child were walking into the store. She yanked her child closely in and gave me the … Continue reading Lent, Day 28

Lent: The Divine Feminine, Day 27 In one generation after 1531, under the mother symbol of the Lady of Guadalupe, almost all of the native peoples of Mexico accepted Christianity. Such a quick and massive conversion had never been recorded. A new kind of Christianity unfolded in the New World precisely at the time it … Continue reading Lent, Day 27

Lent: The Divine Feminine, Day 26 It is certainly true that the New Testament, like the Hebrew Scriptures, presents God in an overwhelmingly masculine imagery. But, by placing on the lips of Jesus himself several important feminine metaphors for God, the Gospels make quite clear that the male metaphors are not to be literalized or … Continue reading Lent, Day 26

It is clear from the New Testament that Jesus used male images and metaphors for God. He Presented God as a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, as a shepherd looking for his lost sheep, as a farmer sowing seed, as a father giving commands to his sons. But Jesus also presented … Continue reading Lent, Day 25

I'll admit the first time I read an article about the "breasts of God" I was given a bit of pause. But once I moved beyond my immaturity I found a truly beautiful message of the Divine Feminine the Scriptures and Church fathers discussed. But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has … Continue reading Lent, Day 24

‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ In the book of Acts, Paul declares that it is IN God that we live, and move, and have our existence. Paul is describing a womb that we all are living in. … Continue reading Lent, Day 23

Lent: The Divine Feminine, Day 22 "I’ve kept still for a very long time. I’ve been silent and restrained myself. Like a woman in labor I will moan; I will pant, I will gasp."-Isaiah 42:14 God's anguish for human failure to embody justice is captured in the image of a woman writhing, unable to catch … Continue reading Lent, Day 22