Sophia Wisdom works in the world for gender and racial equality. She guides us to lay a foundation for gender and racial equality through inclusive names and images of Deity in our worship. Wisdom guides us to use multicultural divine images that include female and male and more. Human beings of all genders and races […]

She Lives! Sophia Wisdom is working in the world through Equity for Women in the Church! Several weeks ago Equity for Women in the Church held two meetings at the annual Alliance of Baptists Gathering in Atlanta. These were not just informative business meetings where leaders spoke; they were sacred circles where stories were told […]

This year at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, I was struck by the number of sessions that focused on the pandemic of violence against women and girls. I grieved that this violence continues, often fueled by religion. The emphasis was on religion not only as a cause of this violence, but also […]

My week at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW) reconfirmed for me the ways in which equality for women intersects with all other justice concerns. Presentations focused on topics ranging from economic justice to racial justice to ecology to education to peacemaking to health to justice for LGBTQ persons to eliminating […]

Giving a presentation with Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Ann Smith at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine was one of the exciting experiences I had during the week I spent in New York City at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW). This presentation, “Transforming Church and Society Through Sophia […]