@Piglet I actually once played for a pretty posh wedding where that was the opening hymn and the first two words were as you wrote. I was thrilled that the congregation sang it as printed 🤣😂🤣
I am not sure if this is the right spot, but @Cathscats made a very good point from a personal perspective that I think deserves to be recorded. It has taken a few of us a long time to reach this place:
I, female, only really understood about sexist language properly when, many years ago, in seminary in Chicago, in a class on the non-Pauline epistles, the professor read to us a translation of 1 Peter he had made which didn’t just use inclusive language, but had replaced all masculine terms with feminine. He had even replaced the word ‘Jesus’ with ‘Deborah’, as in ‘Deborah Christ.’ At first I found it incredibly jarring, being used to the more traditional language, but as he read on I began to understand how I was always translating scripture in my head as I read, so that I could apply it to myself. It was AMAZING having that veil removed. And it was good for the male students too, who found it very uncomfortable.
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