Spiritual growth is achieved with passion, difficulty, and intensity as much as it is achieved by peace, silence, and love.
~ Carolyn Forche
The language we use reflects and in turn shapes the way we construct our experience of the world. (Plaskow acknowledges that)...all of these images of God are humanly crafted metaphors, but our metaphors emerge out of specific cultural and political context. When these contexts change, the old metaphors must change with them.