Hey y'all,

y'all welcome to the Summer edition of Ask Father Josh

each week from June through July.

We're going to be releasing snippets from previous episodes of the podcast.

These snippets will be answers to some of the most popular questions we've had on the show.

Hope these short episodes offer you encouragement as you continue your walk towards eternity. God bless and I'll see you in the fall with all new

episodes to Ask Father Josh podcast. Why is God referred to as he?

All right so this is a great question.

Hey Father Josh, I was introduced to your podcast a few months ago,

and I love everything that you do.

Your spontaneous singing makes me laugh out loud

and your straightforward digestible answers to Catholic questions have helped me to grow very much in my faith.

I apologize. Nope anonymous. It's too late to apologize.

Aye, it's too late. Is it too late now to say sorry. I'm joking. So this question has been asked before since I've only heard a few episodes, but it's something I've been a stumbling block

for me in the past. I was wondering what the church's teaching is on God

always having a male pronoun and being described depicted and often as an old

white man. I know it's very complicated and tied up with the human

understanding of divinity, biblical phrasing, and so much more, but maybe you can clarify a bit

on how God is always described as a man. I was also wondering if and how Catholics should respond when people

jokingly or not call God woman or change his supposed gender in some way.

Thanks so much. Love the work you're doing anonymous. So first thing first

God's not white. That's that movie God's not dead God's not white. That's that movie God's not white. That's artists

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