Category: Ministry of Walking with Women Called

Oh dear.  Another year.  Where and how to end the old?  Where and how to begin the new? What more can we possibly say?  What more can we possibly do? I know in my heart the answer is “Plenty!  So get moving!”  I ask, therefore, that the push/pull of Carlo Carretto’s “Letter” below resonate with…
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Anglican women get noticed. Is it because they are ordained? La Croix International reports that eight women will represent the Anglican Communion at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York in March 2020. I am surmising, based on official titles, there are five laywomen, two “reverends,” and one bishop selected…
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Just when we are all settled in, safe and snug, resting, complacent even, BOOM another change? challenge? blow? comes our way…and I don’t even write about politics! We’ve had many such blows, or perhaps said more charitably – challenges, in our relationship with our Church and its unending repression of some genders over others. At…
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More and more a possible path to justice for all genders, in the Church, in the world, becomes clearer to me: We must convince each other – and especially those in hierarchies and patriarchies everywhere – to act with the utmost urgency to restore, renew, and respect the endangered natural world. For as they –…
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[Editors’ note: Josefina Gabuya is a 2018 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship for Women Discerning Priestly Ordination. This is the last in a series of reflections from our 2018 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year. Read the first reflection, from Allison Connelly, here, and the second from MaryClare…
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[Editors’ note: Maryclare O’Brien-Wilson is a 2018 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship for Women Discerning Priestly Ordination. This is the second of three in a series of reflections from our 2018 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year. Read the first reflection, from Allison Connelly, here.] “I found…
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Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a common summer undertaking for seminarians. Many large hospitals offer the intensive summer program, which challenges us to put all those lofty ideals into action. At Bellevue Hospital in New York, I spend three days a week offering pastoral care to some of the most underprivileged patients in the city.…
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[Editors’ note: Allison Connelly is a 2018 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship for Women Discerning Priestly Ordination. This is the first of three in a series of reflections from our 2018 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year.] “While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in…
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We talk about – or more often mourn the loss of – the gifts of women to our Church. Last week I wrote about an article touting women’s gifts as a resource to “save the world” and added, “and also the Church.” The reach and vision was universal. Now I’d like to focus on some…
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Looking for where we find happiness as an inspiration for creating a new inclusive church for a new day? Worth a try, I think. I was originally inspired in this quest by an article in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic entitled “The World’s Happiest Places”.  Not to keep you in suspense, they are:…
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