Female representations of the abundance of God in creating, redeeming, and calling the world to eschatological peace function with prophetic power, challenging everyone to conversion in a new community where Jesus reigns. As the history of religions makes clear, God-language alone cannot bring about this transformation…

But in the context of the social movement for women’s equality and human dignity, which now reaches around the globe, speech about God has a unique potential for effecting change at a deep and lasting level.

If God is “she” as well as “he”—and in fact neither—a new possibility can be envisioned of a community that honors difference but allows women and men to share life in equal measure.

from Quest for the Living God