{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"God's Pronouns","description":"A few weeks ago, I talked about a claim that we should call God \u201cthey\u201d since \u201cHe\u201d isn\u2019t inclusive enough. A tweet by the Religious News Service recently doubled down on this idea, asserting that Christian churches \u201clack consensus\u201d about God\u2019s pronouns. Lacks consensus? That\u2019s a strange statement. That only makes sense if 99.99% of all Christian churches, in all times and places throughout history, don\u2019t count as a consensus. If you go around the world and ask Christians from all cultures and all denominations, you\u2019ll encounter a lot of different ideas about a lot of other things. Roman Catholics disagree with Presbyterians about church structure, and Anglicans argue with Baptists about baptism. Not only that, but you\u2019ll find a delightful degree of diversity when it comes to the way they sing God\u2019s praises. But, for all the glorious variety of Christ\u2019s Church down through the ages, pretty much the only place you\u2019ll get \u201cGod is they\u201d theology is in the culturally narrow confines of the wealthy West. For all the disputes Christians have had, the core of the Gospel teaching, including God\u2019s pronouns, has remained unchanged since the Apostles. ","author_name":"Breakpoint","author_url":"https:\/\/breakpoint.org","html":"