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.
The Young Clergy Women Project- A network of the youngest ordained clergy women, defined as those under forty, this community connects via blog, in-person conferences, and a publication known as Fidelia’s Sisters.
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.
Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation (John Knox, 2006) by Dale Martin will seriously change your life, not least in changing your perception of Jesus.
Blogs
Kimberly B. George - Activist, teacher, and writer, she graduated from Yale Divinity School and 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 collaborates with the Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South.
Michelle Wolff – An unholy combination of beauty, brains, and mother, this self-described orthodox queer theologian (and friend) blogs on topics as varied as Karl Barth’s mistress to the tension of faith in the film Higher Ground.
Micha Hohorst – Perhaps better known as Mama Monk, Micha is a stay-at-home mom and mystic whose writing is a lovely as she. Her eclectic background – Southern Baptist nurtured, Anglican by choice, Presbyterian by current church, and in love with Roman Catholic monastic and contemplative practice – only makes her perspective more compelling and full.
