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Ecology and Climate: Sowing Seeds of Climate Justice: From Grief to Action
Grace Behm is a curate at St Matthew-in-the-City,Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. “We were not created to be survivors. We were created to have life. And what climate change does is challenge life.” These words by Archbishop Julio Ernesto Murray of Panama echo a profound truth about our current climate crisis. He recounts the story of the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
