Feminism | Posted by Katherine C on 04/6/2010

Being A Christian Feminist

"Christa Crucifix"

I was raised by feminists- my mother, father, and both grandparents made sure I knew that being a girl was something to be cherished.  When I was very small, we worshipped at home, led by my grandfather, a pastor, so as a young child I was never exposed to mainstream Protestant ideology.  I remember my mother and grandmother going through our collections of children’s Bible stories, crossing out all the masculine pronouns and replacing them with gender-neutral or feminine ones. I never imagined God as male: as a little girl, I envisioned Her as a regal, beautiful princess; as I grew up, She matured into a wise old matriarch.

When I was seven, we moved away from my grandparents and joined a “real” church, and I quickly became disillusioned as to…

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