What Can We Do to Support Women’s Equality in the Church, Including Ordination?
Some suggestions from the Minnesota Saint Joan’s Community and elsewhere, put together by Dorothy Irvin [Read more…]
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Lydia’s Gathering is a project under the auspices of the Minnesota St. Joan Community, a 501.c.3 non-profit. Thus, donations to Lydia’s Gathering are tax deductible.
Lydia’s Gathering was named for Lydia, one of the first women leaders of a Christian house church (Acts 16:14).
Catholic women today are being validly ordained in apostolic succession stemming from a Roman Catholic bishop in good standing. More than 70 Catholic women priests and bishops are now ministering publicly in ten countries on four continents. They come from three different ethnic groups speaking at least five different languages. Women preparing for ordained ministries need our financial support.
A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity
Book Review by Bob Beutel
A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity, by Carolyn Osiek and Margaret Y. MacDonald with Janet H. Tulloch. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2006 [Read more…]
Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History
Book Review by Maura Fitzgerald
Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History. Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 2005 [Read more…]
The Priestly Office of Women: God’s Gift to a Renewed Church
Book Review by Connie Aligada
The Priestly Office of Women: God’s Gift to a Renewed Church – Volume 2 in the series A History of Women and Ordination of Women – by Ida Raming. Edited and translated by Bernard Cooke and Gary Macy. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Oxford 2004. [Read more…]
The Lady Was a Bishop
Book Review by Irene Taddiken
The Lady Was a Bishop, Joan Morris, Macmillan; NY 1973. [Read more…]
The Hidden History of Women’s Ordination
Book review by Jay Lindgren
The Hidden History of Women’s Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West by Gary Macy. Volume 3 in the series A History of Women and Ordination of Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. [Read more…]
Out of the Depths
Book review by Patrick Stevens
Out of the Depths, Miriam Therese Winter, Crossroad, NY, 2001.
This is the story of a Roman Catholic woman in Czechoslovakia, Ludmila Javorova, ordained to the priesthood in 1970 by her bishop, Felix Davidek of Brno. [Read more…]
Women Officeholders in Early Christianity
Book review by Terence L. Dosh
Women Officeholders in Early Christianity by Ute E. Eisen · Collegeville, MN, The Liturgical Press, 2000 [Read more…]
