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Related: About this forumIs God male? The Episcopal Church debates whether to change its Book of Common Prayer.
Source: Washington Post
By Julie Zauzmer
July 3 at 6:00 AM
The terms for God, in the poetic language of the prayers written for centuries, have almost always been male: Father. King. Lord.
And in the Episcopal Church, the language of prayer matters. The Book of Common Prayer, the text used in every Episcopal congregation, is cherished as a core element of Episcopal identity.
This week, the church is debating whether to overhaul that prayer book in large part to make clear that God doesnt have a gender.
As long as men and God are in the same category, our work toward equity will not just be incomplete. I honestly think it wont matter in some ways, said the Rev. Wil Gafney, a professor of the Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Texas who is on the committee recommending a change to the gendered language in the prayer book.
Gafney says that when she preaches, she sometimes changes the words of the Book of Common Prayer, even though Episcopal priests arent formally allowed to do so. ...
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/07/03/is-god-male-the-episcopal-church-debates-whether-to-change-its-book-of-common-prayer/
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)God can be whoever and whatever it wants to be.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)until they come down and tell us their preferred pronouns?
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I'm not religious at all.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)-- Voltaire
SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Was picked up after Sunday School. His Mom asked him what they learned and he ended up describing God as this old guy with a long white beard.
Mom asked how he knew that God wasnt a woman. The 5 year old laughed and said, Oh Mom. You know God is a guys name.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)Theological Fail (yet again).
nil desperandum
(654 posts)is not amused with your heresy....
Voltaire2
(13,006 posts)Their gods are male.
Of course the Episcopalians are free to redefine their religion anyway they want.
From my perspective this is a debate about the specific qualities of nonsense.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Someone has some splainin to do.
edhopper
(33,562 posts)or a vagina, if neither, how is a gender determined?