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‘The Male God Blessed the Male Patriarchy’
01 April 2020
Language, Ritual and the History of Women’s Ordination
‘That night we gathered for the birth, as women
have always done - as women
have never done till now;
and in an ordinary room,
warm, exposed, and intimate as childbed,
we spoke about our bodies and our blood,
waiting for God’s delivery:
silence, gesture, and speech
announcing, with a strange appropriate blend
of mystery and bluntness
the celebration of the word made flesh
midwived wholly by women.’
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