EEWC Conference 2004

Music By

Linda Allen

Singer/songrwriter empowering women to find their voices. Doctor of Ministry candidate in Creation Spirituality. Her six CDs are available at www.lindasongs.com.

Carolyn McDade

Feminist, poet, singer, composer who has for more than 25 years gathered women to sing their experience for the transformation of the world. Her CDs are available at http://www.gis.net/~surtsey/mcdade/.

Colleen Fulmer

Conference song leader, earned a Master of Theological Studies, with a concentration in worship and the arts, from the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, CA. She has produced three recordings emphasizing social justice, peace, the empowerment of women, feminine imagery for God, reverence for all creation, and comfort, challenge, and depth in spiritual experience. Her recordings and songbooks are available at www.heartbeatscatalog.org and at www.sophiaspirit.com.

Margaret Shelton Meier

Conference pianist and composer of the conference theme song and other special music, received her Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music and her Ph.D. in music composition from UCLA. Her award-winning compositions include orchestral works, choral anthems, opera, art songs, piano and organ solos and chamber music. They have been performed throughout the US and in several other countries. A choral work and two orchestral pieces are recorded on the Vienna Modern Masters label. Further information about her music is available from her website: www.angelfire.com/sd/meier/meier.html

Speakers

Phyllis Trible

Professor of biblical studies at Wake Forest University Divinity School, Winston-Salem, NC. Author of God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality and Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Carpenter professor of feminist theology at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA. Author of numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk.

Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

Author of 13 books, including The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery of God as Female. Coauthor with Letha Dawson Scanzoni of Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? A Positive Christian Response.

Nancy A. Hardesty

Professor of religion at Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Author of Inclusive Language in the Church and coauthor with Letha Dawson Scanzoni of All We're Meant to Be: Biblical Feminism for Today.

Barbara Essex

Minister/ coordinator of community life, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA. Author of Bad Girls of the Bible. She will be preaching at the closing worship service.

Linda Lawrence Hunt

Author of Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across America, the true story of a Christian woman who walked from Spokane, Washington, to New York City in 1896, hoping to earn prize money to save the family farm. Author Linda Lawrence Hunt, who taught English at Whitworth College in Spokane for 20 years, now directs the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship with her spouse, Jim. Linda will be joined by Pat Stien, a theater professor emeritus at Whitworth, in a dramatic presentation of her book.

And there's even more!

Two panels

An Inter-faith panel on Wisdom/Hokhmah, Torah, and Fatimah
featuring Bridget Blomfield, Riffat Hassan, and Dvora Weisberg

Bridget Blomfield teaches women's studies in religion at Claremont Graduate University with a special interest in psychology and Islamic studies. She is working on a book entitled Gyngnosis: Feminine Wisdom about "the importance of experiential education to facilitate agency and authority in women."

Riffat Hassan, a pioneer of feminist theology in the Islamic tradition, is a professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and travels around the world speaking on women in Islam and engaging in trialogues composed of Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Dvora Weisberg is Assistant Professor of Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Instittue of Religion in Los Angeles. She has done extensive scholarly research and publishing on gender issues in rabbinic texts.

A panel on Wisdom in Difficult Places
Pamela Brubaker, sweatshops activist
Gloria Killian, Prison activist
Joyce Ride, Friends Outside
Kathleen Schinhofen, CSI, violence and conflict management

Seven Paths

Singing Our Lives-Our Earth, with Carolyn McDade

Grounding in Scripture, with Reta Halteman Finger

Pathways of Prayer as Gateways of Healing, with Julie Keefer

Women's Studies in Religion, with Karen Kidd

Social Justice, with panelists and others

Creative Expression, with Ann Ownbey and Lindsey Huddleston

One More Path. A time to share interests and stories-or just get acquainted

Saturday night celebration of EEWC's 30 years
with Nancy Hardesty and open mike time
Bring your favorite Gospel and biblical feminist songs

Sunday morning praise and worship
Elizabeth Nordquist, liturgist
Barbara Essex, preaching

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