Gender-bending God
John 14: 15-31 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE May 10, 2026 Work of art by Ruth Schreiber. Adaptation of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" from the Sistine Chapel in which God is portrayed as a woman. Just when it seems that God is moving further away from us, God is getting closer and closer to us. Jesus is with his disciples for the last time. He talks about going to prepare a place, a house in which there are many rooms, and the disciples know the way but they don’t know the way. They think the way is far, but it’s as close as the distance between our heads and our hearts, which is the longest journey many of us will ever travel. And so Jesus puts the way, the directions in plain language, “I give you a new commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.” “I am in God and God is in me.” Then Jesus says that he will ask God to give the disciples another advocate, the Helper, the Comforter, “the one who stands beside”, to be with them alway...
