Events: Women's Flourishing
| Saturday, March 25th @ 11 am ET World Day of Prayer for Women's Ordination |
On
March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, we mark the annual World Day
of Prayer for Women's Ordination. This year, join us for a 30-minute
virtual prayer service with the theme of "Our Lady of the Way": an
ancient name for Mary with contemporary resonance as we walk the
synodal way towards a renewed Church with renewed priesthood for all
genders.
Join us on Zoom on Saturday, March 25, at 11 a.m. ET (US)/4 p.m. CEST. |
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Applications are open for the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship! |
Are
you a woman or non-binary person in ministry? Enrolled in
undergraduate, graduate, or relevant coursework to further your
ministerial path? Discerning or preparing for ordained ministry? This
$2,200 scholarship might be for you!
Please
share this opportunity with your community, or consider applying
yourself! Applications are accepted until April 29, 2023. |
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| Apply or nominate someone you know to join the WOC board! |
If
you would like to be considered for nomination to the Board or would
like to nominate someone, please complete an online application below.
Nomination applications are due April 1, 2023 with personal interviews conducted in May. The new Board member term begins in the fall of 2023.
We
encourage all our members and friends to give this opportunity to serve
prayerful consideration! Help WOC continue to act in courageous and
prophetic ways to create a discipleship of equals in the Board itself,
in the organization at large and in the patriarchal Roman Catholic
Church. |
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Check
out our new merchandise on our Bonfire store, where all products are
Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) certified and 100%
"sweat-free." New designs including "Votes for Catholic Women" and
"Domina Pastor Est!" are now available! |
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| Save the date: April 30 is Vocations Sunday—plan with us on March 9! |
On
Sunday, April 30, the institutional church recognizes "Vocations
Sunday," when it prays for an increase in vocations— but doesn't
recognize women's calls to priesthood. We'll be taking inspiration from our sisters in New Zealand who coordinating a "Pink Shoes into the Vatican" witness, and well, if the (priestly) shoe fits...! ;-)
Join this call to learn about planning a Vocations Sunday event in your area.
Join us on March 9 at noon ET for a conversation about how to host or support a local action on April 30. Register here! |
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Can Women
Heal the
Fractured
Catholic
Church?
Saturday March 25 at 2 p.m. EST, 3 p.m. AT, 11 a.m. PT
Rosemary Ganley
Rosemary will share her perspectives on the topic drawing on her varied and faith-filled
journey as a writer, speaker and activist. Where do we find hope and vision in the current
moment? What can we learn from where we have been?
Rosemary Ganley is a lifelong feminist activist and writer. She is the co-founder with her
husband John, of the development agency “Jamaican Self Help”. Which inspired her book:
“Jamaica Journal: the Story of a grassroots Canadian Aid Organization. Rosemary gave the
Margaret Laurence Lecture at Trent on feminist theologies in 2011, and now writes a weekly
column for the Peterborough Examiner. She was assistant editor of the independent
newspaper Catholic New Times in Toronto 2001-2006. Her writing has appeared in the Globe
and Mail, the Toronto STAR, the Peterborough Examiner, The Green Teacher and Conscience
magazine.
Rosemary was invited to sit on the Gender Equality Advisory Council for the G7 meetings in
2018, and in June of 2022, Rosemary was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by Trent
University.
Registration is free.
Donations are requested to help support the work of CLC
Concerned Lay Catholics
Speaker Series
This will be presented via zoom.
For more information
and to register visit
concernedlaycatholics.ca
| | March 2023: What's Happening at WATER |
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| | Happy Women's History Month! We hope you will join us for our March programs,
and tell others about them.
All WATER events will be held over Zoom. Our monthly WATER programs are free and open to all; your generosity makes them possible.
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| | | | Monday, March 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm ET with Cynthia Lea Tootle
"Sending Healing Energy”
Cynthia
Tootle, associate minister, Takoma Metaphysical Chapel, will introduce
the concept of sending healing energy. She will use the video “Sending
You Light” by Melanie Demore performed with Julie Wolf. | |
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| | | Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 1 pm ET with Karma Lekshe Tsomo
“Women in Buddhist Traditions”
Celebrate International Women’s Day in a discussion with Karma Lekshe Tsomo about her book Women in Buddhist Traditions (New
York University Press, 2020). This is a chance to hear from an expert
about “the unique contributions of Buddhist women from a variety of
backgrounds and the strategies they have developed to challenge
patriarchy in the process of creating an enlightened society.” | |
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| | | Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 7:30 pm ET with Diann L. Neu and the WATER Community “Honoring World Water Day”
World
Water Day, celebrated on March 22, offers a chance to recognize
the importance of water. This common, sacred source symbolizes new
beginnings, global connections, and personal transformations. Water is
life. We will call forth a blessing of peace from the spirits of the
universe so that wars over water will cease. | |
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| | | Seeking Counseling, Spiritual Direction, or Clergy Supervision? WATER is here to support you. Contact us for spiritual
direction, psychotherapy, clergy supervision, and pastoral counseling
provided by co-director, licensed psychotherapist, and spiritual
director Diann L. Neu. Email dneu@hers.com. | |
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| Be a Part of an Action-based Community Become a WATER Intern for Summer 2023 or Fall 2023-Summer 2024!
WATER welcomes students from seminaries, universities, and colleges to work in the WATER Office
Interns
engage in the full range of activities at WATER, from office work to
program planning. They learn how a small non-profit is run and what it
takes to nurture an Alliance. Interns wishing to do their own research
will have a chance to utilize WATER's constantly growing Resource
Center as well as consult with our experienced staff through periodic
in-house seminars. Interns
must commit to a minimum of six weeks and can stay for as long as a
year. Internships are unpaid. All participants are encouraged to apply
for academic credit from their home institutions for their work at
WATER. WATER is delighted to work with volunteer programs which sponsor
volunteers with expenses shared by the on-site placement.
Check out our Internship Application at https://www.waterwomensalliance.org/interns/ for more details. Give us a call or email us if you have any questions about the program!
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Our technician has fixed the link for the Paul Collins event. But, if you have any further problems registering, please write to debrose@futurechurch.org and I will make sure you are registered. Deborah Rose |
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| Wednesday, March 15 at 8pm ET |
| Historian Paul Collins on a Post-Benedict & Post-Pell Church |
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Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal George Pell exerted enormous influence
on the Catholic Church. How will they be remembered in the annals of
Catholic history? Join Paul Collins, a popular
broadcaster and author from Australia, who will offer his keen insights
into the legacies of two powerful churchmen who powerfully shaped the
institution's policies for more than half a century. Biography
Born
in Melbourne and now living in Canberra, Paul Collins is an historian,
broadcaster, and writer. For many years he has worked in varying
capacities in TV and radio with the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation. He has also acted as a commentator on the BBC, PBS in the
United States, NHK Japan, Danish and New Zealand TV, Sky TV News, as
well as SBS and commercial TV and radio stations in Australia. He has
written regularly for most of Australia’s leading newspapers and
magazines, as well as for print media in the UK, the United States,
Germany and Austria. He
has a Master’s degree in theology (Th.M.) from Harvard University, and
a Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D) in history from the Australian
National University (ANU), and is a Fellow of Trinity College of Music,
London. He has taught history and theology in Australia, US and Pacific
countries and worked as a parish priest in Sydney and Hobart. He has
wide experience in tertiary and adult education. Between 1986 and 1996
he was a producer-presenter in the ABC in radio and TV, and for three
years he was Specialist Editor-Religion for the ABC. In
March 2001 he resigned from the active priestly ministry of the
Catholic Church after thirty-three years service due to a doctrinal
dispute with the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
over his book Papal Power (1997). He is the author of fourteen books including Mixed Blessings, God’s Earth, Papal Power, Burn: The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia, Believers: Does the Catholic Church in Australia have a Future? and Judgment Day: The struggle for life on earth. The Birth of the West will be published in 2013. While
he is well known as a commentator on Catholicism and the papacy, he
also has a strong interest in environmental and population issues.
Nowadays he works as a freelance writer, speaker and broadcaster on
environmental issues, social ethics, theology, history and media.
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Women Witnesses for Racial Justice Series |
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| Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 7pm ET |
| Dr. Nikki Taylor discusses her book on the tragic life of enslaved woman Margaret Garner |
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part of our Women Witnesses for Racial Justice series, please join Dr.
Nikki M. Taylor, Professor of History and Chair of the Department as
she discusses her book Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (2016). The
focus of her story is Margaret Garner, an enslaved wife and mother who,
along with her entire family, escaped from slavery in northern Kentucky
in 1856. When their owners caught up with the Garner family, Margaret
tried to kill all four of her children–and succeeded in killing
one–rather than see them return to slavery. Using black feminist and
interdisciplinary methodologies, this book retells this harrowing story
from the perspective of Margaret Garner–a woman who could not read or
write and left little of her own voice in the historical record.
Ultimately, Driven Toward Madness examines why this fated act was the last best option for her as an enslaved mother. Bio
Professor
Taylor specializes in 19th century African American History. Her
sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual
History. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and Duke
University (MA, PhD, Certificate in Women’s Studies). Dr. Taylor has
won several fellowships including Fulbright, Social Science Research
Council, and Woodrow Wilson. She is also the Principal Investigator of
two institutional grants, including the $5 million Mellon Just Futures
grant (2021) and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Grant
($480k in 2017) Nikki M. Taylor is currently completing her 4th
monograph, “‘Brooding Over Bloody Revenge:’
Enslaved Women, ‘Wild Justice’ and Lethal Resistance to Slavery.” The
manuscript examines enslaved women who used lethal violence to resist
slavery from the colonial to anteblelum eras, challenging all previous
interpretations about the nature of their resistance. Her first book, Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community 1802-68 (2005)
uses the backdrop of one of the nineteenth-century’s most racist
American cities to chart the emergence of a very conscientious black
community–a community of people who employed various tactics such as
black nationalism, emigration, legislative agitation, political
alliances, self-education, and even armed self-defense to carve out a
space for themselves as free people living in the shadow of slavery. Professor Taylor’s second book, America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark (2013),
is a political and intellectual biography of one of the foremost
African American activists, intellectuals, orators, and politicians in
the nineteenth-century–a man whose name once was spoken in the same
breath as Frederick Douglass, Dr. McCune Smith, and John Mercer
Langston. This book charts Clark’s journey from recommending that
slaveholders be sent to “hospitable/ graves,” to advocating for a
separate black nation, to forging alliances with German socialists and
labor radicals, to adopting the conservative mantle of the Democratic
Party. Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (2016)
is Dr. Taylor’s third monograph. This book is a biography of Margaret
Garner, an enslaved wife and mother who, along with her entire family,
escaped from slavery in northern Kentucky in 1856. When their owners
caught up with the Garner family, Margaret tried to kill all four of
her children–and succeeded in killing one–rather than see them return
to slavery. Using black feminist and interdisciplinary methodologies,
this book retells this harrowing story from the perspective of Margaret
Garner–a woman who could not read or write and left little of her own
voice in the historical record. Ultimately, Driven Toward Madness examines
why this fated act was the last best option for her as an enslaved
mother. Inspired by Garner’s story, Dr. Taylor’s current research is
about enslaved women who used armed violence to resist slavery.
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| April 6, 2023 at 12noon EDT |
| Women Remembered: Jesus' Female Disciples |
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Professor Joan Taylor and Professor Helen Bond will offer a look into
the lives of Jesus’ female disciples based on their exciting new book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples (2022). While
many of the women in Christian Scriptures have been dismissed,
stereotyped, or misrepresented, Professor Taylor and Professor Bond
present some of the latest findings and recover the stories of the
women who have helped shape our faith.
Here is a brief excerpt from their book: Not
only are women not imagined as being part of Jesus’ mission, but the
story of Christianity’s spread is also a masculine one. In the first
century – so the story goes – the Christian message was taken to the
lands around the Mediterranean by two great men: Peter and Paul. And
later on, the message was reflected upon and transposed into creedal
statements in the third and fourth centuries by the ‘Fathers’ of the
Church. In popular memory, then, the history of earliest Christianity
is decidedly male. But is this the full story? Sometime
in the late 50 ce, Paul wrote a letter to the church in Rome. This was
one of the most important letters that Paul would ever write, setting
out his beliefs and hoping that the church would welcome him when he
came to visit. As he was still something of an unknown quantity among
the Roman Christians, he finished his letter with a list of important
people he knew there. Many of them worked with him. What’s fascinating
about this list is that it’s the closest we have to a snapshot of the
early church, a random collection of people who are listed simply
because they were known to Paul. And the surprising thing is that, of
the twenty-nine names in the chapter, eleven – more than one-third of
them – are women. These women were clearly performing various roles in
the church –deacons, benefactors/leaders or ‘apostles’ (envoys) –
and others were running house churches. Most significant of all is the
fact that the letter itself was delivered by a woman, Phoebe (Paul
wrote to commend her to people who didn’t already know her, strongly
implying that she had been sent from him with the letter). It’s very
unlikely that Phoebe was just the postwoman; as a ‘deacon’ (minister)
and benefactor/leader in her own right, she presumably read out and
defended Paul’s lengthy missive. She was not just Paul’s deputy, but also an able teacher, envoy and negotiator. BiographiesProfessor Joan TaylorJoan
Taylor is Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at
King’s College London. She has authored numerous books and articles
about Jesus and his world, notably The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism (1997), Jesus and Brian: Studying the Historical Jesus via Monty Python’s Life of Brian (2015) and What did Jesus look like? (2018). She has studied questions of women and gender for many years, and has edited, with Ilaria Ramelli, Patterns of Women’s Leadership in Early Christianity (2021). She also works in radio, television and film, and co-presented, with Helen Bond, Jesus Female Disciples: The New Evidence (2018) for Channel Four. Together they have recently authored Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples (2022). Professor Helen Bond, MTheol PhD FRSE Helen
K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins and Head of the School of
Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the
social and political history of Judaea under Roman rule, the historical
Jesus, and the canonical gospels. She is the author of Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation (CUP, 1998), Caiaphas: High Priest and Friend of Rome? (Westminster John Knox, 2004), The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2012), Jesus: A Very Brief History (SPCK, 2017), The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel (Eerdmans, 2020), Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples (Hodder,
2022), and a number of shorter studies and articles. She has
contributed to over 50 TV and radio documentaries, including acting as
historical consultant to The Nativity (BBC, 2010) and co-presenter (with Joan Taylor) of Jesus’ Female Disciples (C4, 2018). Join
us as Professor Taylor and Professor Bond offer a look into the Early
Church and the role women were playing in the development of the faith.
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| Tuesday, May 2nd at 7:00pm EDT |
| Synodality and Women |
| Join Dr. Phyllis Zagano as she talks about her latest book, Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women. Dr.
Zagano writes, “Even though synodality is the buzzword of the day, the
fact remains that members of the hierarchy are, or at least consider
themselves, insulated from the opinions about Church from those members
on the periphery—and the people most cut out of the conversation at the
highest level are women. Perhaps not the women newly named to positions
in the Roman Curia, nor the women chancellors, canon lawyers, or other
professionals in diocesan chanceries, nor even the women theologians,
journalists, and activists. However, these all are liable to be
excluded.” She
further comments, “It is no secret that the tensions both inside and
outside Vatican walls and chanceries around the world find two sides to
the Catholic story—there is a split between those who follow the lead
of Pope Francis and those who remain attached to Tridentine liturgies;
between those who accept and those who do not accept the findings, the
teachings, of the Second Vatican Council. Can these two sides be
reconciled? Catholic Social Teaching is specific in its tenets, as is
the concept of synodality as recovered by Vatican II. Where does the
confluence of these two rivers of Church teaching and thought leave
women? Does it include or exclude women, either historically or in the
present? Women represent the largest cadre of the periphery that
Francis calls the center. What entrée does the periphery have to
decision-making? How can Catholic Social Teaching and the concept of
synodality combine to bring justice to women in the Church?”
Biography
Dr.
Zagano is Senior Research Associate-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor
of Religion at Hofstra University. She joined Hofstra University in
2002. Her courses have included “Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest,”
“Life, Death, and Immortality,” and “History of Irish Spirituality.” Dr.
Zagano holds a B.A. from Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, the Ph.D.
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and three
master’s degrees, in communications (Boston University), literature
(Long Island University), and theology (St. John’s University). Dr. Zagano is the author or editor of twenty-five books in religious studies, including Holy Saturday: An Argument for the Restoration of the Female Diaconate in the Catholic Church (Crossroad, 2000), winner of Catholic Press Association and College Theology Society Annual Book Awards, Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority (Macmillan, 2012), (Catholic Press Association Book Award) and Women: Icons of Christ (Paulist 2020) (Catholic Media Association Book Award). Dr. Zagano’s recent books include Women
Deacons: Past, Present, Future (with Gary Macy and William T. Ditewig)
(Paulist Press, 2011), Women in Ministry: Emerging Questions on the
Diaconate (Paulist Press, 2012), Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest
(Paulist Press, 2013), Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the
Eastern Churches (translations of essays by Cipriano Vagaggini)
(Liturgical Press, 2013.), Women Deacons? Essays with Answers (Liturgical Press, 2016), and Women Religious, Women Deacons: Questions and Answers (Paulist Press, 2022). Her book for pre-teens, Elizabeth Visits the Abbey (Clear
Faith Publishing, 2022) tells the story of a young girl who visits her
aunt, an abbess, and learns of the history of women in the Church. Her book, Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women (Paulist Press) will appear in February 2023. Her
work has been variously translated into Bahasa Indonesian, Croatian,
Czech, Dutch, French, German Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The Spanish translation of her best-selling book On Prayer: A Letter for My Godchild won a 2004 Catholic Press Association Book Award. She edited the Liturgical Press “Spirituality in History” anthologies: The Dominican Tradition (2006); The Benedictine Tradition (2007); The Ignatian Tradition (2009); and The Franciscan Tradition (2010). The Carmelite Tradition (2011). Her
visiting fellowships and professorships include Fulbright Senior
Specialist, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
(Spring, 2016), religious studies and spirituality; St. Leo University,
Tampa, FL (Spring 2010), spirituality and the history of women in the
church; Fulbright Fellow, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
(Spring 2009), women in the church; Yale Divinity School (Fall 2005),
ecclesiology; Aquinas Chair of Catholic Studies St. Thomas Aquinas
College, Sparkill, NY (Spring 2005), spirituality and contemporary
Catholicism. Dr.
Zagano is a founding co-chair of the Roman Catholic Studies Group of
the American Academy of Religion, and a member of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association, the Society for the Study of Christian
Spirituality, the College Theology Society, and the Catholic
Theological Society of America. She has held appointments at Fordham
and Boston Universities, and worked as a researcher for the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Her biographical listings include
Who’s Who in America. Her award-winning column is nationally syndicated by the Religion News Service and runs in the National Catholic Reporter and
in other journals around the world. She has published hundreds of
articles and reviews in popular and refereed journals, and for five
years hosted a monthly talk show on the National Public Radio affiliate
station, WBUR-FM. Her papers are collected at the Gannon Women and
Leadership Archives, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. In
2012, she received the Catherine of Siena Distinguished Layperson Award
from Voice of the Faithful. In 2014, she received the Isaac Hecker
Award for Social Justice from The Paulist Center, Boston. On
August 2, 2016, Pope Francis appointed her to the Papal Commission for
the Study of Women in the Diaconate, which convened in Rome November
2016. From
time to time, she appears on television. This clip is from the Hallmark
Channel’s “New Morning” program, and was shot at the 2006 Interchurch
Center Conference on Women in the Church. Play video.
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| Thursday, May 9th at 7:00 pm EDT |
| The Rise of Black Catholic Women (like Venerable Henriette Delille) in 19th Century New Orleans |
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Emily Clark will discuss the lives of Black Catholic women such as
Venerable Henriette Delille in the context of late 18th century and
early 19th century life in New Orleans, offering background on the many
unique features of life in New Orleans. The
region’s development under French and Spanish rule brought the
enslavement and transport of African people, Code Noir, color labels
such as quadroon, the creolization of culture and religion, and how
free women of color such as Henriette Delille, Juliette Gaudin, and
Josephine Charles were able to found the second successful religious
community of Black Catholic women, the Sisters of the Holy Family, in
the United States.
Biography Emily
Clark is the Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial
History at Tulane University. She specializes in early American and
Atlantic world history, with a focus on the French Atlantic. Her
research interests include slavery, race, gender, religion and
historical memory. Research Interests Early
America and the Atlantic World, particularly the Francophone Atlantic,
including Africa. I am especially interested in the ways that the
history of places like Louisiana and the French Antilles can illuminate
the development of racial, ethnic, and national identities in the wider
Atlantic world and in other parts of colonial and early national
America. Recent books include New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659–2000s, edited with Ibrahima Thioub and Cécile Vidal (2019) and The Strange History of the American Quadroon,
which historicizes the figures of the quadroon and the “tragic
mulatta,” their links with Haiti and New Orleans, and the role they
have played in shaping national American memory and identity. Her
teaching interests include Atlantic world history, early North America,
America and the Caribbean in the Revolutionary Age, Louisiana and New
Orleans, religion, gender, and the history of race and race relations.
Also, archival skills and paleography and the development of web-based
student projects. I especially enjoy introducing students at all levels
to rich colonial and early national manuscript records housed in New
Orleans archives and am a collaborator on ViaNolaVie https://www.vianolavie.org/ and New Orleans Historical https://neworleanshistorical.org/ |
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| Tuesday, May 23rd at 7:00pm EDT |
| Women in the Lectionary |
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on passages about women in the Bible and feminine imagery of God,
Ashley Wilcox, a professor of preaching at Candler School of Theology,
will offer an overview of “The Women’s Lectionary” as she reimagines
the liturgical calendar of preaching for one year.
Women
are daughters, wives, and mothers. They are also strong leaders, evil
queens, and wicked stepmothers. They are disciples, troublemakers, and
prophetesses. Ashley Wilcox explores how the feminine descriptions of
God in the Bible are similarly varied―how does it change our
understanding if God is feminine wisdom, has wings, or is an angry
mother bear? Discover
the good news of the lectionary with Professor Wilcox, perfect for
every female clergyperson or anyone seeking to incorporate more
insights from a female perspective into their preaching. From
well-known figures like Miriam and Mary to lesser-known women like
Huldah and Sapphira to feminine metaphors, this comprehensive resource
features more than one hundred commentary essays with an Old Testament
and New Testament passage for each Sunday of the year and special holy
days in the calendar. |
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| Tuesday, June 13th at 7pm EDT |
| The Women Who Led and Ministered in Acts |
| Professor
Teresa Calpino of Loyolo University offers a fascinating look at The
Acts of the Aspostles as she searches for the stories of the women who
are named. Luke names a number of women in Acts who have been ignored too often in our faith history. For
instance, Tabitha (Acts 9:36–42) and Lydia (Acts 16:11–15) are
mentioned only in praising the apostle associated with their story. As
a result, stereotypical categorization has swept these important
characters from their rightful place into relative obscurity. In fact,
an examination of their stories set against the expectations of women
in Greco-Roman antiquity reveals their unconventional situations. In
particular, the representations of the “ideal woman” in the Greco-Roman
world are at variance with the portraits of Tabitha and Lydia. Both
women are portrayed as independent, support themselves financially, and
are regarded as benefactresses in their own right. Of course,
benefactions from women were commonplace among elite women of the
dominant class, but neither Tabitha nor Lydia belong to such select
families. Biography
Dr.
Calpino received her BS from Northwestern University in Communications.
She received an MA in Biblical Languages and Literature in 2005 and her
PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity in 2012 both from Loyola
University Chicago. Her interests include Acts of the Apostles, Women
and Gender, The Greco-Roman Social Context of early Christian
literature, The Church Fathers, and Letter, Inscriptions and Artifacts
of the early Christian world. Dr. Calpino’s book Women, Work and Leadership in Acts was published in 2014 by Mohr-Siebeck. (WUNT II, 361; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014) She has also published articles in Biblical Review and Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi. Her book chapter, “Mary Magdalene in Modern Scholarship,” will be published in late 2014 in the scholarly anthology Maria Magdalena.
She has also presented numerous papers at conferences on both the local
and national level. She is a member of The Society of Biblical
Literature, The Chicago Society of Biblical Research and The Catholic
Biblical Association. She is currently the chair of the “Teaching the
Bible” section for the Midwest Society of Biblical Literature.
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| Every Sunday Evening at 7:00pm ET |
| Weekly Online Liturgy of the Word |
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us for our weekly Liturgy of the Word as we sing, pray, hear the
readings proclaimed, and encounter Catholic women preaching.. Together,
we listen to one another and share our faith journeys. Spend
time with us as we nourish one another in order to carry
out the work of the Gospel in our church and world. |
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| Weekly Reflections by Emerging Catholic Voices |
| The Just Word |
| NEW! Too
often the faith and experience of younger adult Catholics is
overlooked. "The Just Word" is one way to engage the voices of
young adult theologians and activists as they enter into Scripture
in light of their experience. Be ready to be inspired! |
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| Sr.
Miriam Therese Winter joins FutureChurch and the Women's Ordination
Conference to recall the ministry and life of Ludmila Javorová, a woman
who was ordained a Roman Catholic priest by Bishop Felix Davidek to
serve in the underground church there when the church was under threat
by the Communist regime from 1948 through 1989.
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Women Erased Series
FutureChurch's Women Erased Series offers
online presentations that uncover the many ways women's leadership,
witness, and ministries have been erased from our Church's Scriptures
and Lectionary, historical record and memory, and communities.
These
sessions, featuring leading scholars of Biblical studies, Church
History, Ecclesiology, Canon Law, and Sacraments, as well as faith
leaders will not only name and explore the history, but also put forth
resources for correcting the record and telling the true story of
women's central role in shaping and spreading Christianity from its
beginnings to today.
Please
join us as we learn from one another and prepare ourselves for taking
action to build a Church where the gifts and ministries of women and
all Cathoics are valued and restored.
Upcoming Sessions and Video recordings of past sessions
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