Episcopal Prayer Book Changes, Rejecting God as ‘Man’ Necessary to Fight Abuse of Women, Prof. Claims

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(Photo: Reuters/Mike Theiler)The Reverend Michael Bruce Curry (C) walks the aisle as he arrives for his Installation ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, November 1, 2015. Curry becomes the first African-American Episcopal presiding bishop, after previously serving as Bishop of North Carolina.

A divinity school professor has said that recent talk about gender-neutral revisions being  made to the Episcopal Church’s Book of Common Prayer has been influenced in part by the MeToo movement.

The Rev. Ruth Meyers, a scholar and professor at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, told Sojourners in an interview Monday that the prayer book should be revised to reflect the changing world around believers.

“It’s important because our worship needs to speak to this world that’s on fire today and needs to tell this incredible Gospel story that we have and draw people into that Gospel proclamation,” Meyers said.

“When I was doing some work with this ‘Me Too’ committee preparing for general convention, one of the women on my committee talked about being in conversation with one of her peers. And their image of the church was, you know, God is this old white haired old man with a beard and what does [H]e have to do with me? This kind…

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