This Weak Force
This Weak Force
11/15/05
Lately I’ve been reading a great book called “A God Who Looks Like Me.” (Patricia Lynn Reilly, 1995, Ballentine Books) She talks about how women have been left out of western (and other) religions. That is not new to me. I have just written a book manuscript of how to find our own lost feminine plus the divine feminine, but each time I encounter the enormity of the dominant male culture making women into sexual objects that couldn’t possibly be spiritual or holy, it infuriates me. Inclusive language for God is nonexistent in my state of Oklahoma, and many other places as well. Even tv commentators and NPR reporters use the pronoun “he” for God.
If we persist in thinking of God as “he,” then God is described in terms of what men think is important: strength and steadfastness. Yet what we have learned in the last year is that when tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes hit, it is the bendable buildings that survive. Women know how to bend, how to accomodate, how to love. I am not a scientist but I know that in physics it is the weak force that is the strongest. Jesus born in a manger, not a castle. Read More »