Book asks question: what if Jesus had been a woman?
By Elaine Lies
TOKYO | Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:04am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/18/us-books-jesus-idUSTRE77H1KS20110818(Reuters) - As a child, Kristen Wolf set up a makeshift altar in the driveway of her home, decorating a desk with a white cloth and a crucifix before proceeding to conduct a Mass and causing a stir that resulted in a reprimand.
The move came, she now says, from a sense that she was left outside the center of Catholic tradition and spirituality by her gender, a feeling that led her decades later to write "The Way," a re-imagining of the story of Jesus with a woman in the central role.
