Join us in welcoming feminist theologian Jennie Knight as she discusses the question: "Why does it matter what God looks like?" What difference does it make whether we picture God as an elderly white grandfather, a nurturing African American mother, or a stranger on the
bus?

Jennie Knight says our image of God affects how we see ourselves, how we worship, how we treat one another, how (or whether) we work for justice, and a host of other life practices. But after years of knowing intellectually that God transcends a specific human type, Knight still struggles to make an emotional connection with God in different forms. She suspects that that struggle is why many seminarians who wrote papers about thea/theology abandon nontraditional God images once they hit parish ministry, perpetuating the practice of seeing God as a European male on a throne and all the accompanying problems that such imagery creates.  

Knight believes that personal and critical reflection in the context of a supportive learning community, combined with experiences of diverse images for the divine in worship, can lead to profound changes in self-image, relationship with the divine, and agency in the world. Her book aims to demonstrate why and how this transformation is both possible and necessary.

This event is a Charis Circle Founding the Future of Feminism Program. The suggested donation is $5,  but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.