It was a slippery slope. Once I began to refer to the Holy Spirit in the feminine in my sermons and in the creed, certain results followed — slowly at first, but inevitably.
"We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life." I didn't notice right away, but after a while, it sunk in. I was calling the Holy Spirit "Lord." The Holy Spirit, I was saying, not only gives life and proceeds from the Father and the Son, she is "the Lord." I was co-opting the word "Lord." In my vocabulary — and that of anyone else who called her "Lord" — this previously masculine word was now including the feminine.
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