"Woman: Half of God’s Work of Art"

"Woman: Half of God’s Work of Art"

All this “women-stuff” is not only important, it is half of conversion, half of salvation, half of wholeness, half of God’s work of art. I believe this mystery is imaged in the Woman of the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse: “pregnant, and in labor, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth…and finally escaping into the desert until her time” (12:1-6).

Could this be the time? It is always the time! The world is tired of Pentagons and pyramids, empires and corporations that only abort God’s child. This women-stuff is very important, and it’s always been important: more than this white male priest ever imagined or desired! My God was too small and too male. Much that the feminists are saying is very prophetic and necessary for the Church and the world. It is time for the woman to come out of her desert refuge and for the men to welcome her.

from Radical Grace, “Is This ‘Women-Stuff’ Important?”