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It means understanding that if God is indeed a Father, then a father does not silence his children. A father does not bless the hand that strikes them. A father does not require a male mediator for his daughter to speak to him.

For if she is truly a daughter of God, then no earthly power can fully claim her. No law, no custom, no fatwa, no canon, no tradition that diminishes her can claim divine authority. The moment a human institution contradicts the inherent dignity of God’s daughter, that institution ceases to speak for God. aalahayude penmakkal

And perhaps God, who is beyond male and female, beyond master and servant, beyond warden and prisoner, looks upon her and says for the thousandth time, It is very good. It means understanding that if God is indeed

It means looking at a tradition that has often made you invisible and saying, I am here, and I am made in the image of the Divine, and that image is not a metaphor. For if she is truly a daughter of