The Father is Not a Father

an "Amen" to Beth Felker Jones

“To gender God is to make God in our image, the very definition of idolatry.”
Beth Felker Jones

Reading this piece (If God Has No Gender, Why Speak the Father’s Name?) by Beth Felker Jones reminded me of a passage from Nicholas Lash’s Believing Three Ways in One God, which I’ve come to cherish. A lengthy excerpt, but well worth the effort:

It is often s…