EEWC Audio

Gather Me under Thy Wings

Composed and sung by Kathryn Christian.  Copyright 1998 by Kathryn Christian and used by permission.

Kathryn Christian is a singer/songwriter and retreat leader from northern Michigan who has led the singing at several of our EEWC conferences.  One of the songs she taught us and invited us to sing with her was her composition, “Gather Me under Thy Wings.” She kindly gave us permission to include her song here. Kathryn has recorded this song on two of her CDs, Ascension, and Growing into God.  (which also features poetry readings by Edwina Gateley, another past EEWC Conference presenter). 

Kathryn is a longtime friend to EEWC.  In addition to her article, “God’s Motherly Care for Us,” written as a Mother’s Day 2009 Web Special Feature, our website includes a profile of Kathryn and her husband Brian, which was featured in two parts in the Fall, 2000   and Winter, 2000-2001 issues of EEWC Update (now called Christian Feminism Today).  Reviews of some of Kathryn’s music were published in our Fall, 2002  issue ("Come, Holy Mother") and the Fall, 2003 issue ("Growing into God").

For more information about Kathryn’s music ministry and her recordings, see her personal website .

Click on the blue player button above (or click on this link) to listen to "Gather Me under Thy Wings ”

Editor’s Note:  Special thanks to sound engineer and EEWC member Marg Herder of Softsound for encoding Kathryn Christian’s recording of “Gather Me Under Thy Wings” for use on our website.  Marg herself is an accomplished singer/songwriter in addition to her sound engineering work. Through Marg’s website you can click on a link to hear her recorded music, including her moving composition, “At Her Table,” the recording of which  was played during communion at the closing worship service of the 2008 EEWC Conference in Indianapolis. Our thanks, too, to Carl Foote of Soliv Design for his technical services in making this audio available on our website.

Dr. Alena Amato Ruggerio

Dr. Ruggerio is associate professor of communication and interim coordinator of women’s studies at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.  She earned her Ph.D. at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.  Her work has appeared in Christian Century, The Other Side, Feminist Media Studies, and Eerdman’s Encyclopedia of Religion.  Her teaching specialties include courses in Women Transforming Language (feminist rhetorical theories), Texts of Truth (rhetorical approaches to interpreting sacred texts), and persuasion.  Currently she is also the assistant to the editor of Christian Feminism Today.

Click on the blue player button above (or click on this link) to listen to her June 27 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.”  

Since the audio audience will be unable to see the visuals shown in the conference presentation, it should be noted that in introducing her topic, Dr. Ruggerio displayed and referred to some of her prized possessions: a Webster’s Dictionary and an oversized hankie embroidered with the initials O.E.D. (honoring the Oxford  English Dictionary).

Editor’s Note:  This audio presentation was recorded, mastered, engineered, and edited by Marg Herder of Softsound, sound engineer for the 2008 EEWC Conference, “A Place at the Table.”  Marg is an accomplished singer/songwriter in addition to her sound engineering work, and through her website you can click on a link to hear her recorded music, including her moving composition, “At Her Table.” The recording of this song was played as communion was served at the conference closing worship service. 

Dr. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

Dr. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott has been a frequent speaker at EEWC conferences. For over three decades, she taught English literature at William Paterson University of New Jersey and has authored or coauthored 13 books. Many of her articles written for EEWC Update (now Christian Feminism Today) are archived online at eewc.com

NEW – Dutiful or Prodigal: God’s Promise Remains the Same

Click on the blue player button above (or click on this link) to listen to her sermon, “Dutiful or Prodigal: God’s Promise Remains the Same,” from the Sunday morning worship service at the EEWC-Christian Feminism Today Gathering, June 20, 2010.

Comprehending the Dimensions of God's Love: What Is Our Contribution?

Click on the blue player button above (or click on this link) to listen to her plenary speech, "Comprehending the Dimensions of God's Love: What Is Our Contribution?" presented July 21, 2006 at the EEWC Biennial Conference held in the Hyatt Charlotte Hotel, Charlotte, NC.