By Pat McCaughan Episcopal News Service The unique blessings, joys, frustrations, challenges, and realities faced by the first five African American female diocesan bishops in The Episcopal Church are explored in candid conversations in “This Band of Sisterhood: Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith, and the Church,” compiled and edited by Westina Matthews. Matthews, an adjunct … [Read more...] about Book Celebrates First Five Black Female Diocesan Bishops
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Anglican Communion Appoints Director for Gender Justice
The global Anglican Communion is sharpening its focus on the issues of injustice and inequality for women, and has announced the hiring of a director for gender justice, a new position. Mandy Marshall is the co-founder of Restored, a UK-based charity working to end violence against women around the world. In her new role she "will provide an Anglican Communion-wide lead on … [Read more...] about Anglican Communion Appoints Director for Gender Justice
Guyana to Ordain Women
St. Gerorge’s Cathedral, Georgetown, by Ian Mackenzie/Flickr The Diocese of Guyana’s 144th synod voted June 20 to permit the ordination of women to the priesthood. Guyana Times reports: This was a unanimous decision taken during the 144th Synod session of the regional Anglican Diocese, which includes Suriname and French Guyana. The highest … [Read more...] about Guyana to Ordain Women
Giving Voices to Women
By Retta Blaney Like many a dutiful spouse, Pilate’s wife moved for the sake of her husband, but not happily: “I wasn’t thrilled about uprooting the entire household and moving to some place I’d never heard of. After all, Judea isn’t exactly a household word in Rome. But Pontius was elated. It was his first important posting, and he saw it as the first step to bigger and … [Read more...] about Giving Voices to Women
Treasure the Pearls
Twenty Minutes with the Rev. Lindsay Hardin FreemanBy Sarah PuryearThe Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman is an Episcopal priest, writer, and speaker who lives in Minnesota. She has written and edited six books, including The Scarlet Cord: Conversations with God’s Chosen Women (Circle Books, 2010) and The Spy on Noah’s Ark and Other Bible Stories from the Inside Out (Forward Movement, … [Read more...] about Treasure the Pearls
Kenyans, Bishops, and Women
CommentaryBy Francis OmondiThe appointment and now the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Libby Lane as Bishop Suffragan of Stockport, prompted many conversations in the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK). Our ties with the Church of England have progressively loosened since March 1955, when Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher consecrated two Africans, one of them Festo Habakkuk Olang, who became … [Read more...] about Kenyans, Bishops, and Women
Women and Provisional Bishops
By G. Jeffrey MacDonaldTLC CorrespondentThe Episcopal Church needs many more women bishops, according to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, and it has neglected available methods to accomplish that goal.Bishop Jefferts Schori delivered that message October 3 at the Women’s Leadership Forum at Episcopal Divinity School, where about 80 people (11 of them men) gathered to … [Read more...] about Women and Provisional Bishops
Humility, Piety, Pride
Review by Grace Sears My Own Worst Enemy How to Stop Holding Yourself Back By Janet Davis. Bethany House. Pp. 256. $13 Do women in general — or Christian women in particular — hide their light under a basket they mistake for modesty or good manners? In My Own Worst Enemy, Janet Davis illustrates ways women conceal their gifts, drawing not only on her own experience but … [Read more...] about Humility, Piety, Pride