Tag: Theology
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Women’s Voices: Women in the Bible
School carol services provided (alongside Christingle services) my first encounters with the Word of God. Different students from each year group would be selected to do the Bible readings and in the Senior School, it was tradition for John 1 to be read every year by the Headmistress. So it was that my abiding memory…
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Women’s Voices: On Motherhood, Pregnancy and Priesthood
by Sorrel Shamel-Wood My Journey On Saturday, my son celebrated his first birthday. On Monday, my maternity leave ended and I returned to my role as assistant curate in the Dorchester Team Ministry, Diocese of Oxford. A lot has changed in the year of my absence: for a start, there is a new Supreme Governor…
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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…
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Women’s Voices: Interview: Hannah More and ‘Moderation’ in Evangelism
with Esteban Crawford
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Women’s Voices: Four biblical women teach us about church leadership
Rahab, Mary, the Bleeding Woman, and Jairus’ Daughter by Revd. Olivia Haines Rahab, Mary (Jesus’ mother), the bleeding woman, and Jairus’ daughter: each of these women had a life changing encounter with God. Each can teach us something of the kind of leadership and ministry the church of the future needs. Rahab Rahab is placed…
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Editorial: Women’s Voices in the Church
(ENG) The theme “Women’s Voices in the Church” is deliberately broad. In this cycle of posts, we will hear from women across the anglican communion. We will hear about what women are doing and saying. And we will hear of anglican women from history, who have contributed to and shaped our faith. Our sincere thanks…
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Conflict and forgiveness: A feminist critique of reconciliation in the Church
The contemporary popularity of the language and theology of reconciliation has been such that one might be forgiven for thinking that it is a concept born in post-1994 South Africa, with its link with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process of 1996 led by the erstwhile Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Mpilo Tutu. In fact,…
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Conflict, Forgiveness, and Seeing The Truth of The Other: Why and How Faith in Times of War Must Look Beyond Symbols
In his book Writing in the Dust: Reflections on 11th September and Its Aftermath, Rowan Williams says that when we only see humans as “symbols”, we do not see their living reality and true humanity. We see them as “other” from us. War makes this worse and leads to death. To overcome this, a vision…
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Editorial: Conflict and Forgiveness
‘Recognising that those in power have sometimes used talk of reconciliation to maintain status and impede efforts towards justice and wholeness, we seek a Communion-wide focus on a renewal of this ministry.’ (Lambeth Call on Reconciliation Statement, 2022) We intentionally conceptualised the theme of “Conflict and Forgiveness” beyond communal understandings, to also include personal encounters…
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Hanna Lucas: Why Am I An Anglican?
I am an Anglican to remember. I don’t mean this statement in the sense that one might say, ‘it was a Christmas to remember’; that I, personally, am an Anglican of any ‘memorable’ quality. I mean it in the sense that I am an Anglican in order to remember. For me, ‘remembering’ is the beating…
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