Aldredge-Clanton, Rev. Jan (Rev. Jan Aldredge-Clanton)

She Lives!: Sophia Wisdom Works in the World Aldredge-Clanton, Rev. Jan (Rev. Jan Aldredge-Clanton) 1st edition

Meet the ministers and laypeople driving foundational Christian theological change restoring sacred value to women and girls in pursuit of just and equal faith communities.

In a world filled with injustice and violence, we long for a new sacred symbolism to inspire transformation. This yearning includes a widespread hunger for female images of Deity Wisdom, Divine Feminine, Mother Hen, Mother Eagle, God-She, and more in church life and worship to restore gender-balance and finally achieve just, equal, and inclusive faith communities.

She Lives! presents fascinating narratives of clergy and laypeople who are changing the institutional church and society by restoring biblical female Divine names and images to Christian theology, worship symbolism, and liturgical language. Their stories reveal the connection between multicultural female Divine images in worship and justice in human relationships, illustrating Wisdom's works such as gender equality, racial equality, marriage equality, economic justice, care of creation, nonviolence, interfaith collaboration and expanding spiritual experience.

Ideal for laypeople and clergy to use in churches, ritual groups, retreats, workshops, conferences, academic classes and personal exploration, this book also provides creative, expansive, gender-balanced worship resources, including original hymns and locations of feminist emancipatory faith communities throughout the United States and Canada.

She Lives! invites readers to join the adventure of creating rituals that include the female Divine and to join communities that celebrate Her, affirming the sacred value of all people and all creation.