Tag: gender

• 3rd Sep 2023

  Women’s Voices: Gender-based Violence

  

  By Rev’d Keba Cuffy [Content warning: this piece contains mentions of physical and sexual abuse, rape, FGM, and other forms of gender-based violence.] I am Rev’d Keba Cuffy, a newly ordained priest in the Diocese of the Windward Islands. From the moment we are born and grow up, we are told how a girl and…
• 27th Jul 2023

  Women’s Voices: The First Female Bishop in East Asia

  

  We are not mere instruments but a Sacramental Communion by Andrew Soshi Kawashima Anglican Consultative Council (ACC)-18 closed with the confirmation that we will continue “walking together”. It is a reaffirmation that, no matter how drastic yet practical attempts we have made, in the end only the basic principle “walking together” can be shared at…
• 13th Jul 2023

  Women’s Voices: Female Character at Church, Family, and Society in Taiwan

  

  by Chia-Lin Wang When people talk about female experience at churches in East Asia, the first image that comes into mind is the Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi who was the first female to be ordained as priest in the Anglican Communion. Thinking of the Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, females in leadership can be very challenged…