When is a human being most powerful? Does Wonder Woman show us what strength is, or does it give back to us what patriarchy and the white middle class have always said true strength is? I have to admit that I haven’t seen the movie. But I’ve seen clips and read reviews, especially this article in Sojourners, […]
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Today I add in a beautiful book entitled Swallow’s Nest, a prayer-book of psalms re-written in feminine terms. The author’s favorite term for God is El Shaddai, sometimes thought to have meant Breasted One. My husband inscribed my Divine Feminine Version of the New Testament with these words: “For Susan, my love, May this text
“Listen to the Voice of God!…How powerful and majestic is her voice!” Psalm 29, Swallow’s Nest, p. 47. I am not so good at listening to women, giving them authority. Nor do I always expect to be heard as a woman, especially by men. I am reading Micha Boyett’s Found and enjoying it immensely. I
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