“I am upheld by the realization that religion is a communal vision. I am not, my prairie mother’s notions notwithstanding, alone with my Bible facing a cyclone. The community was and is both male and female. My teachers were women and men, the authors I read women and men, the saints before me were both Perpetua and Martin Luther, I worship standing beside a man. I know that although in the first century it was men who recorded the stories, it was women who first witnessed the resurrection.”
–Gail Ramshaw, Under the Tree of Life: The Religion of a Feminist Christian, p. 38
