Seminary of the 3rd Age - Marion Millin - Deciphering God

Three key questions underpinning this presentation are:                                                                          
- Why has the mystery that we call ‘God’ been written in masculine cipher for so long?                       
- What has this imaging of God done to and for social constructs?                                                                     
- Is there a divine face in the Bible that a female can relate to out of her own experience?      

This presentation is not about taking an anti-male stance; rather it will look firstly at theological descriptors and biblical metaphors that reflect the female experience in the world and secondly at what the great psychologist Carl Jung terms ‘the feminine function’ as a way of thinking that applies to both women and men.

Before becoming a minister in the Uniting Church, Rev Marion Millin was a teacher working mainly with refugees whilst also raising two sons with her husband, Martin in Perth. Her mid-nineties call to ministry as a deacon saw Marion undertake a Bachelor of Divinity degree whilst also becoming the WA representative on the Uniting Church’s Commission on Women and Men (later called Gospel and Gender). She has also been much involved in prison reform. Her last placement was as WA Presbytery’s associate general secretary (pastoral) which involved travelling across WA.