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and re-imagine the whole enterprise of church

softens the exclusively male Hebrew terminology for the Creator God and recasts texts in ways that avoid the need for a he (or she) personal pronoun

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Having knowledge and words to counter baseless accusations can disarm those who would use these passages as weapons of exclusion and judgement

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