Women in Ministry in The United Reformed Church

Rev. Miriam Diephouse-McMillan, BCC, brings her experience as a Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital in this piece on pastoring those with Borderline Personality Disorder. She writes, "It helps to re-examine some of the very stereotypes that we project on people with BPD. Once we have deconstructed these stereotypes, we can better see and respond to the needs underneath them."

Read more at https://youngclergywomen.org/love-and-limits-pastoral-care-for-persons-with-borderline-personality/.

Rev. Merianna Harrelson reviews Tricia Hersey's book Rest is Resistance in our latest from Fidelia. "Hersey’s work is creating conversations that are so important to how we show up in the world," Harrelson writes. "Her work is inviting us all to a deeper way of thinking and existing; a way that is closer to the divine breath that resides within each and every one of us."

Read more at https://youngclergywomen.org/book-review-rest-is-resistance/

YCWI members, the YCWI Nominating Committee invites you to prayerfully consider being part of the leadership of this organization and working to further the mission and ministry that we do together.

YCWI Board Application and Information: https://forms.gle/MMCFDaw973aSoNcj9
YCWI 2024 Nominating Committee Application and Information: https://forms.gle/EXds8GydTxBsoSzD8

Board applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until October 31. Members of the Nominating Committee will follow up no later than November 15.

Homily at Holy Trinity Catholic Community in Georgetown, Washington D.C. Roman Catholic Women Priests are walking in the footsteps of women -like Phoebe- in ordained ministry as equals in the community of the bapt...

Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Inspiration for a More Egalitarian Judaism. The Torah portion for yesterday was a double one: Nitzavim-Vayeilech (Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30).  I have already written about Vayeilech here, yet as with any parshah there is always more to say…

In talking with fellow clergywomen, Rev. Dr. Michelle Bodle writes, "I noticed a pattern of these same clergywomen needing to make decisions around how to engage statements or questions that called for deeper exploration, their journeys of helping people work through the layers."

Read more about responding to comments pastorally at https://youngclergywomen.org/layers-responding-to-comments-pastorally/

Let's make that tent bigger! 💫

Sinclètica Monastic School is presenting the new Master’s Program Knowledge, Art & Interiority. See also:
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Dear all,

We hope you are well and enjoying the summer wherever you are. Today we would like to share an invitation for a new project of the EFECW with you. We are organizing an open online space for women to discuss and share their concerns, current situations, struggles in life, thoughts, questions and similar. So it is really an open space to come together and support each other with whatever needs we might have. Please comment below and we will send you the zoom! Feel also free to share the invitation with further friends that might be interested. We hope to see you soon for the open space!

With kind regards,

Jelena and Hannah
CC members

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Comment below if you are interested and we will send you the details

New books spotlight women's leadership in New Testament (RNS) — ‘It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,’ said Beth Allison Barr.

❤️💚❤️💚 Merry Christmas from all of us at WOC! Wishing you and your loved ones a blessed Christmas and a season of justice, good health, and peace. Rejoice!

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Join us for YEAR W, starting this Sunday, 11/27: We are beginning a year-long journey in worship and study—Year W—listening to the voices of women, girls, and the divine feminine, thanks to the work of groundbreaking Bible scholar Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney. Rev. Dr. Gafney is an African-American woman, an Episcopal priest, and a local church pastor, and she currently serves in an endowed chair for Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School. In "A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church: Year W" (2021), she asks us to consider what it looks like “to tell the good news through the stories of women who are often on the margins of scripture and often set up to represent bad news in the Bible. Year W is a tool to help us work with those questions. Over the course of one year from Advent to Advent, we will use Prof. Gafney’s translations, which seek to breathe new life into texts long bound by a cultural insistence on male-centered language for persons, peoples, even God, as we make our way through her suggested schedule of readings, rather than the more familiar Revised Common Lectionary. We will hear new stories and hear familiar stories in new ways. It will not always be easy—there are troubling stories in the Bible, as we all know, particularly those of women—but there will be new joys, as well. This is an important journey and one well worth making together.

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The Congregational Church of Needham strives to be a radically inclusive, justice-seeking, peace-making, love-affirming, LGBTQ+ welcoming congregation of the United Church of Christ in Needham. MA.

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The Festival of Resistance this September is the perfect thing to invite people to who are new to all things climate change.

We've made a little invitation that you can send to your friends, your church, your family, your third cousin two times removed(!)

Let's do this 👇

https://christianclimateaction.org/2022/07/09/join-the-festival-of-resistance/