{"id":7718,"date":"2003-09-22T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/09\/22\/disciplesses\/"},"modified":"2003-09-22T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T23:44:54","slug":"disciplesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/09\/disciplesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciplesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">The German Evangelical Church is translating the bible using feminist language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">More than 50 translators are working on a new edition of the holy book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">They are rewriting passages which are seen to discriminate against women, and are also using &#8220;unbiased and just&#8221; language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The term disciple is to be changed to &#8220;disciples and disciplesses&#8221; and forms of address such as Lord or Our Father are to be omitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The translation project will run to 10,000 copies printed by the Gueterslohe publishing house in 2004.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsisfree.com\/click\/i,24538202,1890\/\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I&#8217;ve managed to find a copy of the editor&#8217;s notes on one prayer in the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Our <s>Father<\/s><strong> gender neutral person who might have a parenting<br \/>\nrole<\/strong>,  <\/p>\n<p>Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy <strong>unspecific androgenesis<\/strong> name;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>His\/Her<\/strong> King<strong>\/Queen<\/strong>-dom come, <strong>His\/Her<\/strong> will<br \/>\nbe done, on earth as it is in Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>  Give us this day our daily <s>bread<\/s> <strong>material<\/strong>; and forgive us our trespasses,<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\">Bread has traditionally been made by women enslaved in<br \/>\na family supporting role.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>  as we forgive those who trespass against us<strong> (providing they did not use<br \/>\nmale dominant terms).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<\/p>\n<p>  <s>Amen<\/s> Aperson<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\">To have all prayers end in the male only term men makes<br \/>\na lie of equality.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Evangelical Church is translating the bible using feminist language. More than 50 translators are working on a new edition of the holy book. They are rewriting passages which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}