“The delight in hearing one’s own voice is lethal to religion. Religion used to be, and still is for some, a communal worldview about ultimate reality, with the resultant communal rituals and ethics. In most earlier societies, all the people who lived in the same locale endured the same natural disasters, survived the same plagues. And so they buried their dead the same way, they lived by a common code of morality, they sought the same divine assistance and praised the same divine benevolence. Religion was plural. Religion was the way the people lived and, perhaps, thought. But little by little there is evidence of the “I” breaking free from the “we.”… The implications for Christianity are immense. Feminist Christians are only one of the many voices now saying that the old group was wrong, blind, that I and my few friends now see.”
–Gail Ramshaw, Under the Tree of Life: The Religion of a Feminist Christian, p. 12
