Rachel Held Evans interviews The Reverend Wil Gafney, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Gafney is an Episcopal
11-year-old Rebecca Howarth was elected as the country’s first “girl bishop” at Oldham Parish Church. She serves through the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
Mary Hunt looks at the results of Vatican review of American nuns and is not impressed. Writing in Religion Discpatches, she has three essential problems
Legislation to allow women of the Church of England to be appointed as bishops passed today. The
The Anglican Communion, through the International Anglican Women’s Network, is participating int in “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” from November 25 to December 10, 2014.
The Belfast Newsletter reported this week: Measures paving the way for the appointment of women as bishops in the Church of England have received royal
Laurie Brock, who blogs at Dirty Sexy Ministry, has written a heartfelt essay that was occasioned by the current controversy at General Seminary, but that
Writing for Religions News Service, Autumn Miles reflects on the negative role the church played in her experience of domestic violence.
Boz Tchividjian looks at how some churches support spousal abuse in both direct and indirect ways.
Today, three Episcopal priests launched a new website, entitled All Faithful Can–a play on the earlier hashtag: #yesallwomen. The priests: the Rev. Jordan Haynie Ware,