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With a history dating from 1973, we are an international organization of women and men who believe that the Bible supports the equality of the sexes. We are Christian feminists. We are inclusive. We welcome you.
New – Summer Edition of Web Explorations for Christian Feminists
Letha Dawson Scanzoni likes to think of the Web Explorations feature she puts together as a "quarterly online magazine of links." Here you'll find links to lots of informative, interesting, (and yes, even entertaining) articles and audio/video materials. Among topics covered in this summer edition are friendships; beauty standards and body image; women and the legal system; violence against women; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues; women misunderstood and misjudged; patriarchal attitudes; inter-religious understanding; women, work, and money; and more.
Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Christian Feminism Today Special Feature
Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse—as told through music.
Composer Margaret Meier tells the story behind her empowering new cantata, But Joy Comes in the Morning.
CD Review: But Joy Comes in the Morning.
Linda Bieze reviews Margaret Meier’s cantata about healing and hope for childhood sexual abuse survivors, with some additional thoughts from Susan Campbell.
Panel Discussion: What We Need to Know about Childhood Sexual Abuse
Three experts in the fields of mental health and religion respond to the message of the cantata.
Further discussions by each of the experts
Marriage and
Family Therapist
Sharon Billings.
Rev. Marie Fortune,
founder of
FaithTrust Institute.
Psychiatrist
Elizabeth S. Bowman.
For Mother's Day and Beyond – A special Web Feature in Words and Music
God's Motherly Care for Us
Singer-songwriter Kathryn Christian, who composes music for meditation, prayer, and healing, tells why the metaphor of God as Mother has special meaning for her.
God's Gift of Motherhood
Comes in Different Ways
God's motherly care took on new meaning for Melanie Springer Mock when two young boys from across the globe came into her life—and captured her heart.
Audio: "Gather Me under Thy Wings."
Listen to Kathryn Christian sing, "Gather Me under Thy Wings," a song about God's tender motherly love.
Easter Special
Two articles about Jesus' post-resurrection appearance to two disciples on the road to Emmaus from Luke 24:13-33.
Come to the Table
The Reverend Nancy Wilson shows us how two dejected disciples' experience of walking, talking, and having a meal with the Risen Christ changed their lives forever and speaks to us today. A sermon delivered at the 2008 EEWC Conference.
Two Paintings of the Supper at Emmaus
Linda Williams calls our attention to two remarkable and often overlooked paintings of the supper at Emmaus. She shows how these representations highlight the inclusiveness of Jesus' message and his welcome to all people.
New in March
Presenting three new Web only features:
Slaying the Public Speaking Mastodon: How to Vanquish Your Fears of Public Speaking Communication professor Alena Amato Ruggerio’s provides ten tips that will help you conquer your anxieties about addressing an audience. (Web Exclusive)
Using Our Hands to Find Our Souls Melanie C. Reuter, D.Min. shows us how our lives can be enriched as we link art and spirituality together. (Web Exclusive)
Book Review: Poets on the Psalms Linda Williams reviews Lynn Domina’s collection of essays by modern poets who examine the ancient poetry of the Psalms. (Web Exclusive)
Two Noteworthy New Books
about Women, God, and Religious Institutions
(as reviewed in the Winter, 2009 issue of Christian Feminism Today)
Book Review: Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl by Susan Campbell. Reviewed by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott.
Book review: Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality by Leora Tanenbaum. Reviewed by Alena Amato Ruggerio.
Conference 2008 Report
Joyfully Remembering
It was an event in the planning for 20
months, so its arrival was anticipated
with enthusiasm by those of us...
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New EEWC Audio
Dr. Alena Amato Ruggerio’s June 27, 2008 plenary presentation, “Theapalooza: The Rhetorical Turn in the Third Wave of Biblical Feminism,” from the 2008 EEWC conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the conference theme was “A Place at the Table.”
Recent Articles and Book Reviews from Christian Feminism Today
Feature Articles
Rev. Kathy Pigg talks about her “three-quarter life crisis,” and what she learned from having her first pedicure as she entered her 70th year.
Ken Sehested composed this litany on responding to God’s call – regardless of age, gender, or any of the other artificial categorizations that separate people. “But I am only a . . . ” is no excuse for refusing to answer God’s call to service.
Book Review
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
reviewed by Reta Halteman Finger
“Schuessler Fiorenza has provided a new method of interpretation that has challenged traditional ways of reading the Bible,” writes Dr. Reta Finger in her thoughtful review of this book by the noted Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.
More Book Reviews
Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Graham by Patricia Cornwell
reviewed by Nancy Hardesty
Although this book was published several years ago, we’re reviewing it here in memory of Ruth Graham who died this past year. As reviewer Nancy A. Hardesty writes, “In her husband’s crusades, Ruth Bell Graham preferred a seat in the crowd to a place on the podium. . . .But back in the mountains of western North Carolina, Ruth Graham was making her own decisions and crafting her own life.”
Two Reviews of
Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia by Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen.
Review, 2008 paperback edition,
by Melanie Springer Mock
(Web Exclusive, January 2009).
Review, 2006 hardback edition,
by Anne Eggebroten
(from Christian Feminism Today, Summer, 2007).
72-27 — Our Cross-Generational Christian Feminist Blog
We hope you have been reading our new column, “72-27”. Written as a Weblog (or “blog” for short), it’s a cross-generational dialogue between two Christian Feminists, Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Kimberly B. George.
Each new post is a full-length article, written in the form of a letter to the other writer, with new posts added once or twice each month. In blog format, the most recent post is always at the top, with the earliest at the bottom. To read the conversation chronologically from the beginning, you can start with Kimberly’s “How It All Began” (July 30, 2008) and then scroll up to the posts that followed it. Or you can click on any of the monthly archives to see an overview of the topics covered for that month. Be sure to read the comments by readers, too.
Some Past Articles and Book Reviews from Christian Feminism Today
Feature Article
Jeanne Hanson likes to set goals, and one of them was to skydive before her eightieth birthday. This was her year. Read about her latest “leap of faith” and what all of us can learn from it.
Book Reviews
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott reviews Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women, edited by Choi Hee An and Katheryn Pfisterer Darr. Virginia begins: “Based on recent programs at the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University, this book engages the Bible from the perspectives of five women theologians representing different cultural, ethnic, and/or social perspectives.”
Gail Ricciuti reviews Walking with Wisdom’s Daughters: Twelve Celebrations and Stories of Women of Passion and Faith by Gloria Ulterino. Gail writes that this book is not only a wonderful source for participatory worship in women’s communities; it is a volume of faith history – a “Facebook” of our foremothers, a prayerbook, and a handbook for the spiritual life.
Notice
Our organization’s overall theology should not be assumed to be that of any one member, speaker, reviewer, or author. Our statement of faith is our organization’s official position.
Our quarterly publication, EEWC Update, changed its name to Christian Feminism Today, beginning with the Spring, 2006 issue (Vol. 30, #1).
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 (NRSV)
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