Virginia Mollenkott

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Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (born 1932) is a Christian author who has advocated LGBT rights and Christian feminism. She has contributed a major study on the feminine imagery for God in the Bible, and supports the use of gender inclusive language for God. She is Professor Emeritus at William Paterson University, New Jersey, and is an active member of the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus and Christian Lesbians OUT. She served as a stylistic consultant for the New International Version of the Bible.

Mollenkott, an open lesbian, lives with her partner Suzannah Tilton in New Jersey.

External Links

• Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Blog
• Profile and biography on LGBT Religious Archives Network

Works

• Transgender Journeys (Pilgrim Press, 2003), co-authored with Vanessa Sheridan
• Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach (Pilgrim Press, 2001) — winner of the 2001 Lambda Literary Award
• Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? (1978; rev. 1994, Harper SF), co-authored with Letha Dawson Scanzoni

Out of print, limited availability:

• Women, Men, and the Bible (1977; rev. 1988)
• The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery of God as Female (1983)
• Sensuous Spirituality: Out from Fundamentalism (1992).
• Godding: Human Responsibility and the Bible (1987)
• Women of Faith in Dialogue (1987) essays by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim women, ed. V. Mollenkott
• Gender Diversity and Christian Community (2005)
• Speech, Silence, Action: The Cycle of Faith (1980)
• Views from the Intersection (1984) with poems by Catherine Barry
• Adam Among the Television Trees (1971)
• In Search of Balance (1969)
• Adamant and Stone Chips (1967)

Critical

• YouTube Video - The NIV, Homosexuality, and Virginia Mollenkott Dr. Joe Chambers interviews professor Mollenkott and discusses her lesbian influence (literary critic), on the words used in the NIV. The NIV Committee on Bible Translation