From me to you, here are my most-valuable-resources, the ones I’ve discovered after hours of googling or minutes with a wise colleague. To me, the aesthetics of a site are almost as important as its contents, and so I’ve tried to only to steer you to the clearest, coolest (g)url’s around.
Organizations
EEWC – The Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Caucus is an international organization of women and men who believe that the Bible supports the equality of the sexes.
WATER – The Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Rituals is an international community of justice-seeking people who promote the use of feminist values to make religious and social change.
RCWMS – The Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South supports and connects women who understand their lives and work as ministry. Over the years, they have expanded to include a wide variety of programs on feminism, faith, creativity, spirituality, and justice.
Books
The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Finding Your Divine Spark (Jossey-Bass, 2006) by Sera Beak is for smart, gutsy, spiritually curious women whose colorful and complicated lives aren’t reflected in most spirituality books. A must-read.
Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009) by Leora Tanenbaum is an account of the surge of women in this country rising up and demanding religious equality. These women love their religion but hate their second-class status within it.
Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl (Beacon Press, 2009) by Susan Campbell is a snappy and smart memoir about what happens when a feisty feminist finally admits that in her faith, women would never be allowed a seat at the throne.
All We’re Meant to Be: Biblical Feminism for Today (Eerdmans, 1992) by Letha Scanzoni Dawson and Nancy A. Hardesty is the primer on the issues with which faith-filled feminists must wrestle. Although it’s dated, its wisdom still holds.
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women (Bantam Books, 1991) by Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins highlights the gorgeously, messy spiritual lives of women across the country.
Blogs
Kimberly B. George - Activist, teacher, and writer, she is busy being a Merit Scholar at Yale Divinity School, where she focuses her research on religion and women, gender, and sexuality studies.
Meghan P. Florian – A recent graduate of the Divinity School at Duke University, she also interns at the Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South.
*** What other resources can you clue me into? Save us the time-suck of searching the internet and offer your additions in the comments section below. ***
The Young Clergy Women Project and Fidelia’s Sisters http://www.youngclergywomen.org/ . . . if you do not already know of it, your Gathering Voices colleague, Lara Blackwood Pickrel, will fill you in . . . .
Yes! I’ve just learned about the Young Clergy Women Project from the folks at Leadership Education at Duke. In fact, I even wrote a piece about it for the most current newsletter of the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South. Apparently, the conference is coming to Durham next year. Thanks for reminding me to post this valuable resource on the site. Love the connection!