Blogger Jana Riess blogs at Religion News Service about the new book “Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women,” a collection of essays written
The provincial delegate and the churchwide delegates will be able to attend the official UNCSW proceedings at the United Nations and will represent The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion in their advocacy at the UN, including joint advocacy with the group Ecumenical Women.
British filmmaker Jessica Bishopp follows the Rev. Sharon Francis as she recalls “what it felt like to be ‘called by God.'”
Today the Presiding Bishop opened her sermon with the words: Talitha cum. Girl Get up! You’re not dead yet.” She was referring to the Episcopal Church but for many who had just come from the Episcopal Women’s Caucus breakfast, it was heard as affirmation that this group of ‘troublemakers’ (a term used by Sarah Eagle Heart, the keynote speaker at the breakfast), was not only alive and well but the focus of the Caucus is needed as much as ever.
Women who go to war are almost as likely to commit suicide as their male colleagues; and far more likely than women who don’t serve. How can churches help men and women adjust to civilian life after experiencing the horrors of war?
True liberation of gender’s vast spectrum should ask more of us than that we simply exchange one uncomfortable, oppressive identity for another.”
The effects of French laws passed in 2004 and 2011 banning veils worn by Muslim women, as well as other public dress expressing religious views,
Women at the Vatican: Photo CNS/Paul Haring Acknowledging that women can be leaders in the Roman Curia, Pope Francis said it wasn’t enough to “recover”
Radical Religious Women is a symposium offered by Indiana Voices for Women in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Rev. Jacqueline Means will join other women leaders to
The Rev. Alison Cheek and the Rev. Carter Heyward were part of an April 11 symposium at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Knoxville, Tennessee, sponsored by East Tennessee Episcopal Church Women.