“Hearing the Voices of Peoples Long Silenced”

Gender Justice 2014

UMC Clergywomen Garlinda Burton and Kim Coffing
Photo Credit: John C. Goodwin, UMNS

Week 1

• Stories That Need to Be Told, Rev. Ginna Bairby
• Daughters of Eve: Biblical Women Take Back the Microphone, Miriam Foltz and Rachel Shepherd
• The Cry of Tamar, Rev. Marci Auld Glass
• Re-Imagining “Re-Imagining” and the Next 20 Years, Sylvia Thorson-Smith
• Re-Imagining God: Reflections on Mirrors, Motheroot, and Memory, Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock

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Week 2

• Re-Imagining the Church as Spiritual Institution, Rev. Joan M. Martin
• Re-Imagining Creation: Gathering at the Table of Necessity, Elizabeth Bettenhausen
• God of the Women, Rev. Carolyn Gillette (re-published)
• Sing a New Church!, Rev. Robin Lostetter
• False Dichotomies, Rev. Marci Glass
• Childbearing Decisions, Fertility, and Faith, Rev. Emma Nickel

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Week 3

• • Reproductive Justice and PC(USA) Social Witness Policy, Ann Hayman
• Feminism as Evangelism: How Gender Justice Brought Me Back to the Church, Rev. Darcy Metcalfe Mudd
• Silencing: Testimonials of the Exiled Christians, Rachel Murr
• The Hope of Something New: Feminism, Evangelism, and New Worshiping Communities, Rachel Parsons-Wells
• Status of Women Study Underway, Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty

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Week 4

• The Right to Come Home: Midrash on the Great Woman of Shunem and Palestinian Refugees, Barbara Kellam-Scott
• This is My Story: A Palestinian American Christian Woman, Dr. Nahida Halaby Gordon
• ‘Men in the Mirror’: Constructing and Applying a Christ-Centered Masculinity to Interpersonal Relationships, Kevin E. Frederick
• Left Wanting More:’ Touchdowns for Jesus’ and Domestic Violence in Big-Time Sports, Rachel Mastin
• Why the “Entitled Athlete” is Not Where I Fix my Feminist Gaze, Rev. Marcia Mount Shoop, Ph.D.
•  #BringBackOurGirls: Tweeting Prayers to the Almighty, Jennifer Pelling
•  Women in Poverty & The ‘American Nightmare’: A Story of Economic Oppression, Leslie Woods
•  Learning from Organizers in New Haven: Interviews with Mothers for Justice, Kimberly Clark and Merryl Eaton
  
• Why Child Marriage Subsists – And Why It Shouldn’t, Janet Guyer
• Closing Editorial: Gender Equality is Just Freedom, Dr. Chris Iosso

Photo Credit: “Mouth Taped Shut”, Melanie Killinger Vowell, sayitaintsoalready.com.