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U.S. Episcopal Diocese Votes to Stop Using Masculine Pronouns for God
LifeSite News ^ | 2/1/18

Posted on 02/04/2018 4:33:01 PM PST by marshmallow

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Episcopal church in the Diocese of Washington, D.C., passed a resolution last week to stop using masculine pronouns for God in future updates to its Book of Common Prayer.

The resolution to stop using "gendered language for God" was passed quickly by delegates to the Diocese's 123rd Convention.

“If revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God,” the resolution stated.

“Over the centuries our language and our understanding of God has continued to change and adapt,” the drafters of the resolution stated. The drafters said that referring to God using masculine pronouns is to "limit our understanding of God."

"By expanding our language for God, we will expand our image of God and the nature of God," they stated.

But Clergy delegate The Rev. Linda R. Calkins from St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Laytonsville, Maryland, challenged the delegates to go further.

Calkins read from Genesis Chapter 17, in which God tells Abraham “I am El Shaddai.” She said that if Episcopalians "are going to be true to what El Shaddai means, it means God with breasts.”

“Having studied much feminist theology in my masters’ degrees, I wrote a thesis on liberation and freedom and non-equality in feminist theology and existential counseling,” Calkins told the delegates, as reported by The Institute On Religion & Democracy.

“And I am still waiting for the Episcopal Church to come to the place where all people feel that they can speak God’s name. Many, many women that I have spoken with over my past almost 20 years in ordained ministry......

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TOPICS: Current Events; Mainline Protestant; Religion & Culture; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: diocese; dioceseofwashington; episcopal; episcopalchurch; feminine; gender; gendered; masculine; nonbinary; pronoun; pronouns; radicalfeminists; religiousleft; washington; womyn
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To: marshmallow

The Episcopal Church is now a cult.


21 posted on 02/04/2018 5:11:33 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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To: marron

No. They’re in your face now and no longer hiding the fact that they’re really atheists


22 posted on 02/04/2018 5:15:45 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: marshmallow
And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

23 posted on 02/04/2018 5:16:07 PM PST by Oratam
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To: marshmallow

I am all atwitter over what the POPE will do to counter this.

I am sure he can come up with something more bizarre.

He may declare the next Pope will be a Woman OR at least a man who claims he can be flexible and ‘go either way’.

I am NOT blaspheming the Pope - he took care of that a while back.

POPE: In the words of the Great R R

:TEAR DOWN THAT WALL:


24 posted on 02/04/2018 5:18:01 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""In todays world:::WE, THE USofA are Rudyard Kiplings 'Tommy'")
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To: marshmallow

I mean let’s face it, God could have been a transgender, maybe gay. /s/

I wonder if our buds in islam are bending and swaying to keep up with political correctness?


25 posted on 02/04/2018 5:19:56 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: marshmallow
Just more insanity from the church of Henry VIII. He altered the Lord’s Prayer, so why shouldn’t his theological descendants redefine God?
26 posted on 02/04/2018 5:26:49 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: marshmallow

See what happens when you let women vote?


27 posted on 02/04/2018 5:29:08 PM PST by fruser1
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To: marshmallow

The Episcopal Church was taken over by sexual deviants and eco fascists a long time ago. It is a hollow shell of its former self.


28 posted on 02/04/2018 5:30:07 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

The Episcopal Church might as well merge with the Unitarians.


29 posted on 02/04/2018 5:34:10 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: marshmallow

God left us His requirement for faithful living in Revelation 22: 18,19. He will look at this bunch of free-lancers on the Great Day of Judgment and say, “I never knew you.”


30 posted on 02/04/2018 5:35:52 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: nickedknack

This s like the Captain of the Titanic ordering water pumped into the sip after it hit the ice berg to keep it afloat.


31 posted on 02/04/2018 5:36:34 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Da Coyote

As a private pilot from years ago this made me laugh.


32 posted on 02/04/2018 5:36:43 PM PST by Portcall24
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To: marshmallow

I remember that God agreed to spare Sodom if there were any righteous among them at all. And it turned out, there weren’t any. He got Abraham’s kinfolk out and turned it into a smoking hole in the ground.

That’s what comes to mind when I think about these apostate churches.


33 posted on 02/04/2018 5:38:04 PM PST by marron
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To: Mark17
We may indeed be living in the Messianic Era. However, the Piskie “church” is so moribund that it may not live to see the next page unfold. Mostly old, almost no young people, only rare baptisms to speak of and lots of deaths. Half the parishes can’t afford a full time priest, whose average age is approaching 60. And the national average Sunday attendance nationwide is lower than the average aggregate NFL attendance. Recent declines included.

So no, what ever TEC does makes no difference. They’re done.

34 posted on 02/04/2018 5:39:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: marshmallow

How small are feminists brains (and the wimpy, liberal men who go along with them), that they can’t relate at all to a “Father” or male of any kind?


35 posted on 02/04/2018 5:43:11 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: inchworm

Re: Are they gonna start calling God, “It”.

I would not be one bit surprised if they start called God “she”.

On a different but I think related matter, every child raising, health related article or book I have read in recent years has used the pronoun “she” either exclusively when referring to a child or in a mix with the pronoun “he”. In that mix some attempt to have an even usage of both pronouns, but many primarily use “she” with a lesser usage of “he”. The concept of the universal “he” referring to both sexes is apparently taboo, but the use of the female pronoun is not.


36 posted on 02/04/2018 5:45:57 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

A lot of mainstream denominations have already caved on things God says in Bible are an abomination. Sadly, those teaching scripture will be held accountable for their actions, and heresies.

God came incarnate as his son, Jesus, a man. That should not be questioned. In Genesis, he created man and woman. Nowhere is God a she or it, as I have read thru Bible many times. When we are accountable for something, so readily available, it makes sense to know what it says! My faith is strengthened every time I read scripture.

Each journey from Sin to Savior is different, and we all ‘work out are own salvation, with fear and trembling’. I grew up in southern church established by ancestors, so that basic teaching was in there, even though it took twenty years to find the reality in God, that was waiting all the time!

Youth now rarely darkens the door of a Church unless parents insist, and sadly, we see higher crime, less spiritual concern, and definitely all kinds of rebellion, that makes the last few generations seem tame! Prayer needed for American revival!


37 posted on 02/04/2018 5:58:46 PM PST by Ambrosia ( Independents Rising! Southern born, lived many places; NC, PA, NY, WV, NM, FL, SC)
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To: marshmallow

Thank you for posting. Born, raised, baptized Episcopla.

No longer affiliated as of now.


38 posted on 02/04/2018 6:12:08 PM PST by datura
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To: marshmallow

So these loonies are saying that God is a tranny? I knew this was going to happen when they legalized “medicinal” pot for “recreational” use.


39 posted on 02/04/2018 6:21:03 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: butlerweave

Yowsa!


40 posted on 02/04/2018 7:23:07 PM PST by Trillian
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