From the site:
The site was launched in September 2010 as a companion to two presentations at Abilene Christian University’s Summit. The two presentations were titled “Half the Church” and were a part of a track on Women in Ministry in Churches of Christ. The title of the class was both a (not so) subtle play on the New York Times Best Seller Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and a line from an interview with a female student in ACU’s Graduate School of Theology. She said, “It’s not good for the church to be silencing more than half its members.”
The two presentations were the product of two research projects:
“Half the Church: Calling and Vocation for Women in the Churches of Christ”The purpose of this site is to archive the audio podcast titled “She Is Called” presented in the first session and to extend the research of the second session that seeks to identify Churches of Christ “that have found gender inclusivity important enough to talk about openly and act upon positively.”
“Half the Church: Women in Gender-Inclusive Churches”
2 comments:
Damn. And I thought I was all cried out on this stuff. It's old pain. Old, familiar, the kind that becomes part of who you are, the kind you just live with. Not the kind you cry over, like it's a surprise. But it is fresh every time I hear it in another woman's voice. Aaaarrrrgggghhh.
Thank you ffor sharing this
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