We know that God is neither white nor male. That was merely a notion of God constructed by white male theologians. God is Spirit and, as a spiritual entity, cannot have gender or race, and this should be reflected in the liturgical languages that we use within the church. It is paramount that we rethink and re-create our liturgical language about God. One way we can do this is to shift our focus from using titles to describe God, such as Father, Lord, and Sovereign, to using words that convey action in the way we refer to God in our liturgies. There are inclusive hymnals and liturgical books,
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