I need to qualify this week’s sermon.

After almost three months of complete abstinence from any media consumption, I decided to watch the final season of Game of Thrones. I watched all six episodes at once and promptly entered a weeklong depression. Unfortunately, at the time I wrote this week’s sermon, I was still under the maleficent influence of the intense darkness, misery, and violence of the show. I am leaving it as it is because I believe in every word I said, however, my overall aim is not to attack anyone or anything but to encourage reasonable reflection upon what we ourselves bring to to the table of day to day reality.

The point I make about the ubiquitous religious symbols of a woman giving birth versus a man dying on a cross comes from Merlin Stone’s When God Was A Woman. I also reference Ginette Paris’s Pagan Grace and Riane Eisler’s The Blade and the Chalice.