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, Day 27
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, Day 26
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
Lent, Day 25
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
Lent, Day 24
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
Lent, Day 23
‘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, Day 22
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
Lent, Day 21
After the Bible itself, some of the earliest orthodox references to a Christian mother-God occur in the second century, in writings of Clement of Alexandria. Clement's Paidagogos focuses nearly a whole chapter on a maternal, suckling God. To Clement, the aspect of God's nature that has sympathy with humankind is Mother: "By his loving," Clement … Continue reading Lent, Day 21
Lent Day 20
Day 20 Thinking about something like the Divine Feminine can be very interesting and even enlightening in the midst of the political turmoil we are seeing in America. This week I thought about the idea that many people voted for Donald Trump because they viewed our society as something that is becoming weaker. Which is … Continue reading Lent Day 20
Lent, Day 19
“As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”-God (Isaiah 66:13) The tenacity of the patriarchal God-image is such that many feminists have decided that the only course open to women whose self-image has been healed of gender inferiority and whose world-image has been healed of … Continue reading Lent, Day 19


