Mary E. Hunt taught an intensive course in feminist theology at Universidade Metodista in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and was guest speaker at the university’s conference, XVII Semana de Estudos de Religiao on Hermeneutics.
Originally posted on Religion Dispatches
The full article can found on the National Religious Leadership Roundtable of the NGLTF
“Contemplation: An Invitation to
Faith-filled Feminists”
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
1 -2 PM EDT
Nancy Sylvester, IHM, Founder and President of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue (ICCD) which began in 2002. Nancy is committed to the transforming power of communal contemplation in one’s life and the life of the community. She believes it invites the shifts in consciousness so necessary to embrace our evolutionary journey and engage the critical issues facing us in ways that foster dialogue, relationships, compassion and justice.
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Mary E. Hunt gave the following remarks at Maureen Fielder’s Interfaith Jubilee Service.
Breaking news! Call CNN! All four of the readings Maureen chose for her service are focused on women!
Diann L. Neu and Mary E. Hunt packed and delivered papers of pioneering Swiss feminist theologians Marga Buehrig and Else Kaehler to the Gosteli-Stiftung Archiv near Bern, Switzerland. Frau Marthe Gosteli received the materials enthusiastically for the Institute’s extensive collection of Swiss women’s history.
By Diann L. Neu | Now more than ever, we must call one another to be peacemakers.
“Together we are a genius,” a saying from women of The Grail oft repeated by Mary E. Hunt, has been verified by us time and again in the WATER office.
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Carolyn Farrell honors the BVM Jubilarians with a donation to WATER. WATER joins her in celebrating many years of commitment to service and social justice work in religious life.