The Corner

That Ugly “Male-Dominated” Trinity

Feminism is still making itself known in America’s churches. My colleague Ken Shepherd passes along that the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (the largest and most “progressive” Lutheran denomination) has voted to implement a hymnal and prayer book with “less emphasis on exclusively masculine images of God.” Instead, “It will offer alternatives such as ‘Holy Eternal Majesty, Holy Incarnate Word, Holy Abiding Spirit’ for the male-dominated Trinitarian image of ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit’ in prayers during Sunday services.” What an update: they’ve trans-gendered Jesus, at least into the “neutral” category.

Tim GrahamTim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center, where he began in 1989, and has served there with the exception of 2001 and 2002, when served ...
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