So, I’m sitting in a room in Brisbane Australia, nearly thirty years ago taking twelve step calls from people who are, you know, on the serious end of the booze hound spectrum. Now you don’t get to be answering calls like that unless you’ve been a repeat-offender serious booze hound yourself. In comes this call […]
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“The best thing of all is God is with us.” – John Wesley. Eventually, on my journey, ravaged and broken as it has been, I found myself all out of self-sufficiency cards. Literally broke, life in tatters, and spiritually smashed to smithereens. I had a hole in the soul you could drive a truck through.
“Seeking the female face of God releases divine mystery from its age-old patriarchal cage so that God can be truly God.” – Elizabeth Johnson. Anyone paying attention can pick up on the fact that God is most often referred to historically as He. This is pervasive, and especially true, among cultures where the Abrahamic faiths
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I know a priest who has the unusual habit, for a Roman-collared fella, of always replacing ‘He’ with ‘She’ when reading biblical texts that refer to the Spirit. I don’t know if any of my more hard-line fellow pew sitting comrades have reported this apparent lapse to the powers that be yet, but it wouldn’t
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