their triumphs. The male characters speak to us, and by and large we don’t exclude ourselves from the narrative. Second, men don’t seem to identify with the women in the same way. This fun exercise at our residential illustrated to me how differently men and women relate to the stories in the Bible and probably always have done. The truth is that women have very little choice but to relate to both an androcentric and patricentric faith. Androcentrism and patricentrism are in the fabric of the Christian