by Melissa Bane Sevier In Knoxville, Tennessee, several women meet in a restaurant and open gifts of candles in spring colors. They look like any other group of women friends having lunch together, but their day jobs separate them from the…
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by Pamela Cooper-White Images of birth have long held power and meaning in Christian theology. Indeed, the sacrament of baptism has birth as its central metaphor. What more powerful image of the flowering of human sexuality into birth than the ritual…
Read MoreAffixing Our Name to the Holy Narrative
by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso Over two thousand years ago, 70 men cloistered in separate rooms, tradition tells us, wrote the Greek Septuagint, the first translation of the Bible. On March 21, 1992, 70 women joined to speak out together to honor…
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by Ann Svennungsen For over 30 years I have thought about the pioneering role of women as leaders. It began in 1972 when I lost to a boy in the vote for student body president of my high school in Shelby,…
Read MoreCongregations Magazine, Summer 2004
Women in Leadership Contents IN FOCUS: When Women Lead the Flock Fund the Theological Education president Ann Svennungsen explores how women’s leadership in the church differs from men’s Affixing Our Name to the Holy Narrative Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso reveals…
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