The opening musical number of “Biblical Girl” is entitled “Made in the Image,” a duet between equally plucky Lilith and Eve, Adam’s first two wives. Eve croons that in the Garden of Eden everything was fine. Then, “something I ate set fire to my imagination.”
Yesterday the Church of England’s House of Bishops released their draft legislation on the next steps to ordaining women priests to the episcopate in England.
The Rt. Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, wrote this for the Huffington Post Religion blog:
Episcopal priest, writer and “modern mystic” Cynthia Bourgeault had an epiphany last year on Palm Sunday. She noticed that nowhere in the gospel account of
Bettany Hughes asks “Who knows whether God is a girl?” in
Between 1991 and 2011 there has been a 20 percent decrease in the percentage of adult women attending church services in any given week, … The proportion of American women who are unchurched has nearly doubled in the past twenty years, rising by 94 percent. ~Barna research
This special presentation will be a conversation on the issues and concerns of women of color coming out of the political landscape in this presidential election year.
In the protests of the Arab Spring, women played a crucial role in revolutions that have deposed four dictators. Seeking freer, fairer governments, they risked their lives to lead protests, join the fighting on the frontlines, and care for the wounded without access to hospitals. For the first time last year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen — in honor of their inspiring work to end to violence in their countries.
Sara Ritchey says that wives of married clergy who become Roman Catholic priests should be very careful because in addition to the general disorientation that typical Roman Catholic congregants might experience, there is embedded in the dogma of priestly celibacy a long history of institutional and theological hostility towards women.
We keep quiet because we don’t want to wade into a “he said, she said” battle. Some women need the money too much to risk losing their jobs. And many know their male bosses simply won’t believe them.