Ebenezer Lutheran Church in San Francisco, also known as 'Her Church', is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and identifies as a congregation which focuses on women's spirituality and feminist thealogies.
The congregation also advertises itself as a centre for women to explore feminist images of God and has a 'healing priestess.'
A Healing Priestess, ‘Changing Church’
A series of disclaimers:
1) I am ELCA, and Ebenezer also is, technically, ELCA. Honestly, this makes me cringe a great, great deal.
2) I also self-identify as a feminist, but there's a difference between feminism, and even feminist approaches to theology, and heresy and idolatry.
There is plenty from within historic, orthodox Christian teaching and practice by which to draw from in regard to matters of social justice, sexual and gender ethics, etc; I have a difficult time, based on what little I've seen and read about "Her Church" that jives with standard Lutheran belief and practice, let alone Christian faith and practice. Dipping into heresy and idolatry is not an option here. The way it seems to me, this isn't about Christian sexual and gender ethics or a healthy discussion about them, and cultural engagement; this isn't about feminism either; even if all the intention is well meaning and good, a lot of heresy has been the result of well meaning intentions.
There are ways to discuss these things, there are ways to express these things, and there are ways to engage these things without falling into heretical and idolatrous religious teachings and practices.
Those are my couple of pennies worth speaking as a Lutheran who has attended ELCA churches the last few years and who also identifies as socially/politically liberal and theologically traditional/confessional.
-CryptoLutheran