Addendum to the Previous Post

Posted in Postmodern Theology, Priestess-y things | January 16th, 2006 at 12:50 am

Emerging Women You Should Know:
(off the top of my head, in no particular order at 1am)

Claudia Burney
(beautiful black woman with plenty of chutzpha becomes an eastern orthodox convert — who wouldn’t want to read?)

Liz Rios
(sassifrass jones with a good education and a wicked key pad)

Kelly Bean
(alas, she doesn’t have a blog. but she does have a community that she’s been hosting — unpaid, unordained, and unrecoginzed — for 7+ years)

Deborah Lloyd
(mama bear of a church for street youth in portland, plus a big ole’ fat degree from a seminary that doesn’t think women should be ordained — plus great platnium dread locks and grandkids.)

Maggi Dawn http://maggidawn.typepad.com/maggidawn/
(the godmother of bloggers, highly educated british brain with style and wit. can debate theology with the big boys and knock ‘em flat. also single and beautiful.)

Karen Ward
(my sister Abbess at Church of the Apostles and the Fremont Abbey! fond of alt.spelling, alt.church, beligian beers, and all things UK.)

2 Responses to “Addendum to the Previous Post”

  1. david Says: (January 16th, 2006 at 4:43 pm)

    . . . i rarely comment on your site i ususally just read the wisdom of the voices . . . HOWEVER, these comments that you have made regarding women’s roles in ministry are extremely insightful . . . if you wouldn’t mind i would also like to add that this ‘grip’ many men hold on the heirarchical systems in both the catholic and protestant traditions . . . may i suggest a book you should love . . . its titled Community 101 by Gilbert Bilezikian he presents what i beleive is a very challenging perspective to the status quo on this issue . . . and his exegtical work is extremely thought provking . . . please consider reading it if you haven’t . . . it will be etremely affirming!!!

  2. Rachelle Says: (January 17th, 2006 at 1:44 pm)

    thanks for the recommendation david.

    i’ve been thinking how this discussion actually has so much more to do with power than anything else…and how the issue of power passes through all sorts of issues regard inequity and justice ….

    i know that i, as a white middle class educate american female, i have a great deal of power… and i’d like to learn how to give away that power…

    and in moments when i feel power-less, i’d like to learn how to stand in my own power…

    my sisters-of-color keep opening little windows for me so i can see into the power issue…i think they might be protecting me from seeing too much at once! :-)

    pleasant musing with you…

    r