Does a male, heterosexual, middle class voice dominate, or monopolize, your church’s pulpit?
Feminist theology, liberation theology and queer theology stress, among other things, that one’s locatedness impacts what one sees, how one reads [especially the Bible], what one knows, and what one preaches.
At Wedgewood females preach, gay men preach, gay women preach, transgender people preach, liberals preach, moderates preach, young people preach, old people preach, ordained individuals preach, non-ordained Wedgewoodians preach, poor people preach, rich people preach, middle class people preach, white people preach, black people preach, a professional comedienne preaches, etc.
I’ve learned more in my reading and from listening to sermons from non-male, non-heterosexual, non-middle class voices than to voices like my own.
The voice of Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the voice of a young woman, a voice of a religious outcast due to her unexplainable pregnancy, a voice of one who knew poverty. Can you this Christmas hear Mary’s voices? To what other voices might God want you to listen?
