Nothing specific is said about why exactly the journal is ending publication, but its website says that it is done with “a sense of both fulfillment and regret”, language more than a little reminiscent of that used by dying religious congregations when they announce that they are no longer accepting new members, and are making plans to quietly disappear into homes for the elderly. But driven by morbid curiosity, I discovered one of the reasons.
Here is the abstract of an article published in Worship in 2023 by one Isaac S. Villegas, a Mennonite minister and PhD student in religion at Duke Univ., titled “Son of Man … Vindicated by Her (sic) Deeds”. (I use the stars to keep search engines from finding these polluted words on this site.)
Feminist sensibilities have led to the production of worship resources with g*nd*r*d language that includes masculine and feminine imagery for God. This essay extends this trajectory of inclusion by arguing for the use of multiple g*nd*r*d pronouns for Jesus Christ in our liturgical life in order to break free from the h*t*ronormativ* confines of the male-female binary. My argument follows the lead of the g*nd*rqu**r use of pronouns for Jesus in Matthew 11:19. I turn to the guidance of transg*nd*r insights to reorient our language—a reorientation which involves the empowerment of trans-p*opl* in worship leadership.
Those whom the devil would destroy, he first afflicts with madness. Behold, now the time for destruction is at hand.
1 comment:
St. John's hasn't been crushed! They have as many as one-quarter of the number of monks compared to a few generations ago. That's a new springtime if I ever saw one!
Nick
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