You read that right. Before Christianity, there was a tradition that mother pelicans pierced their own breasts until they bled and fed the blood to their starving chicks. Another version suggested that the male pelican killed the baby pelicans. Three days later, the mother returned and pierced her own breast and fed the babies with…
Month: May 2018
(This sermon was delivered on May 6, 2018 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka, California. It provides a context for understanding the use of feminine pronouns, images and metaphors for God.) Let’s Talk About God In Genesis 1:27 we read: So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created…