"These same Fundamentalists are threatened by anything that even seems to be tending toward feminist thinking, as is evidenced by their upset over the use of inclusive language in church liturgy or in any translation of Scripture. You can count on their outrage in response to any suggestion that God transcends what some of us consider to be culturally prescribed definitions of masculinity. Whenever I preach about the mothering side of God—revealed for instance, when Jesus talked about wanting to gather people together as a hen gathers her chicks (Matthew 23.37)—I can expect letters of condemnation during the days that follow."
"Christian feminists believe that discovering the female side of God has made it easier for them to relate to God, but more important is the biblical case for affirming God's feminine traits. Consider the fact that when God's spirit is referred to in the Hebrew Bible, a feminine noun is used, and in the original Greek version of the New Testament, the Holy Spirit can be understood as being feminine."
— Tony Campolo, Letters to a Young Evangelical, 199-200.
In my experience it's not just Fundamentalists who are threatened.
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