The idea of a ‘father God’ negates the absolutely essential feminine principle in creation. Within each human, we have both the energy masculine (doing, outward, protective, providing) and the feminine (being, inward, contemplative, nurturing). The Bible states we were made in God’s image, which mean God is also feminine, or the ‘Mother God’. Continuing to use only masculine terms to describe the Divine perpetuates a long-standing system of patriarchy…