Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany, 30 Jan 2022, LoLLC
Channel: Lord of Life Lutheran Church
Date: 2022-01-31

The authorship of Ephesians is disputed, but the author writes as would Paul, assuring their readers that the love of God incarnate in Christ Jesus is for all persons, here particularly for Gentiles. The Gospel presents this Jesus as a child of earth, woman-born as were we all, while omitting the women of his lineage. It is one of the chief contradictions of the scriptures that their message of a God who loves beyond categories is bound up in categorical language that minimizes, silences, and often excludes women.