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What's Up With That Giant Purple Church Near San Francisco's Twin Peaks?

Pastor Stacy Boorn doesn’t need to look far for proof of women’s importance—it’s embodied in the landscape beside her periwinkle, lavender and magenta church, a prominent local landmark near one of San Francisco’s highest points. “We’re in the shadow of Twin Peaks,” Boorn said, referring to the city’s famous bosom-shaped hills. “And holy places are often on mountaintops.” Like the natural world itself, Boorn’s establishment of herchurch on Portola Avenue—still technically the Ebenezer Lutheran Church, whose first two locations were founded by Swedish immigrants in the Mission District in 1884—was organic. Its first seed was planted in 2003 when a second-grade class created a goddess mosaic on an exterior wall. That seed grew to a sapling after Boorn, who wanted to soften patriarchal language that was alienating some of her parishioners, began inserting “-dess” after “god” in the liturgy. Unsure of how a congregation with men and women alike would respond, she alternated between “god” and “goddess” in the text. She needn’t have worried. “The older Swedish women read ‘goddess’ the whole way through,” Boorn said. “An 80-year-old woman came up to me and said, ‘I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life.’” The San Francisco Standard is the Bay Area’s fastest growing source for news and information. Get the latest news: https://www.sfstandard.com Follow on Facebook:   / sfstandard   Follow on Twitter:   / sfstandard   Follow on Instagram:   / sfstandard