Tag: Women’s Voices

• 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…
• 24th Jul 2023

  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…
• 17th Jul 2023

  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…