THE CONGREGATION OF ST FAITH
About Us	We believe that at the beginning a plurally-sexed humanity, including fe/male, was created in the divine image of one unlimited loving-relationship configuration of equality. Hebrew scripture's two quite different versions of human creation included a primordial equality through the plurality of one God. The older second version depicted female dependence on a rib-deficient male. The male exerted power via blame over the similarly error-prone and knowledge-acquiring / knowledge-empowered female. In our time, inheritance of distresses, from others similarly affected, has impacted love of God, neighbour and stranger. Simultaneously, the availability of ways to discharge the effects of distress, such as actualising anger/rage, crying/sadness, shaking/fear, laughing and non-repetitive talking, has healed. Daly described the primary manifestations of patriarchal evil, incarnated in phallo-institutions, as blocking Otherworld Journeying / seeing with Real Eyes in Wild Reality. These deadly sins included processions, professions and possession. Regarding 'possession', the Reign of Love's potential to save humanity from patriarchy has continued. Adultery was symptomatic of marriage. Marriage benefited wealth-inheritance through the hard-heartedness of slave-similar human-possessions, exposing inequality via limited love and relationship. ^1 Divorce abolished marriage: Moses 'wrote this command because you were so hard-hearted'. ^2 'It was not like this from the beginning' where God, who is love, was characterised by equality. ^3 And so money, with its inevitable wealth inequality potentialising war-mongery, had no place in the Temple. Neither marriage. Camels would find it 'easier to pass through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the Reign of Love'. ^4 'Do Not Marry, I Am The Resurrection and with you always'. ^5 Patriarchy and its hierarchy was up-ended by child-priority and ‘father’ being banished from earth. There was now only one father, in heaven, and ‘family' were all who manifested the Reign of Love. Instead, the advice ‘do whatever he tells you' included using wine to celebrate undefined, and so unlimited, loving-relationship configurations. Celebration of the good news of such 'excessive life' guaranteed eternal life through participation in the divine gift of flesh and blood. Paradoxically, this new way of loving life risked sacrifice of life. ^6 7 Proclaiming the good news of the Reign of Love included ending unequal relationship to restore Eden-like equal relationship. The Divine became human so that humanity might become Love-like. ^8 Regarding 'processions', these were seen as deceiving and coercing be-ing, via the distorted mirror-reversed images of patriarchal fairy tales, into endlessly repeated dead and deadening circles. Such repetitive processions, movements or behaviours have been viewed as mimicing the 'performance' of gender. In our day, feminism has resisted an unequal sex-binary. ‘Sex’ appears to require gender to communicate but gender performance has accompanied inequality. Gender theory deconstructed the sex-binary, noting that creation has birthed indeterminately-sexed individuals as the gospel and older traditions advised. In addition, the view that 'identity' identifies as I.D. (imago Dei, in the image of God) has related to universal faith. The plurality of gendered-identities has rendered sex as only differentiating reproduction-biology. 1. Exo 20:17, 14 2. Mar 10:5 3. Mat 19:8 4. Mar 10:25 5. Mar 12:25, Mat 22:30, Luk 20:35, Joh 11:25, Mat 28:20 6. Joh 2.5, 10:10 – Gk. 'perisson' 7. Joh 6:51, 54 8. Athanasius, De inc.54, 3: PG 25, 192B