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Changing Church: Dr. Bridget Mary Meehan, Priest, Mary Mother of Jesus Catholic Community, Sarasota, Florida; Bishop, Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests

   Womb of Creation,        Shekinah, She-Who-Dwells Within             God, the breasted One                     Woman Mentor                            Sophia, Holy Wisdom, Help women to delight in their identity as imago Dei (images of God).     Angry Woman Preacher              Liberator of the Oppressed                        Welcoming Hostess                                 Washerwoman God                                         Seamstress Elegant Transform […]

Changing Church: Rev. Dr. Susan Newman, United Church of Christ Pastor, Associate Minister of Congregational Life and Social Justice, All Souls Church, Washington, DC

“The Bible teaches that we are made in the image and likeness of God; therefore, I must believe that there is a male and female expression of God,” Rev. Dr. Susan Newman writes in her book Your Inner Eve: Discovering God’s Woman Within. “God’s Spirit has often felt like a nurturing mother, and I want […]

Changing Church: Rev. Stacy Boorn, Pastor, Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran, San Francisco, California

When she was only nine years old, Stacy Boorn announced, “I want to be a pastor. God wants me to do this.” Even though she was growing up in a church that was part of the Missouri Synod Lutheran denomination, that still doesn’t ordain women, she didn’t realize then that women were prohibited from being […]

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