On today’s program, we discuss whether Christians should set aside masculine names for God in favor of feminine or gender neutral names. Feminist theologians have been arguing for years that calling God “Father” and “Son” depicts the godhead as an oppressive and abusive patriarchy. For that reason, they argue, we should address God with feminine...

In June 2022 Chine McDonald, Director of Theos (a British Christian organization affiliated with The British and Foreign Bible Society) explained her decision to stop using male pronouns for God. Looking back over church history, she was troubled by the way in which “the perceived whiteness of God and Jesus symbolized society’s pervasive white supremacy”....

Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a statement from FBC Elm Mott. The pronoun is a basic concept of grammar first learned by intuition and later catalogued by name in the elementary years. Yet today it dominates much of our national conversation. In the aftermath of the ongoing LGBT revolution, many have had...