5 Reasons Why We Should Not Stop Using Male Pronouns for God

Sharon Jones, June 20, 2022

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In June 2022 Chine McDonald, Director of Theos (a British Christian organization affiliated with The British and Foreign Bible Society) explained her decision to stop using male pronouns for God.

Looking back over church history, she was troubled by the way in which “the perceived whiteness of God and Jesus symbolized society’s pervasive white supremacy”. Reflecting on this she wrote:

“. . . referring to God in the masculine became just as problematic to me as portraying God as white. Not only was God not white, but I came to understand that God was not a man either.”

Having decided not to “ascribe a gender to God,” Chine McDonald now avoids referring to God “in the masculine” and tries to find non-gendered terms:

“For me, this is about freeing God from the man-shaped box in which this male dominated world has placed the creator . . . God is wholly other. So instead of referring to God as ‘he’ or ‘she’, I’ll stick with my decision to refer to God as God.”

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