Women in Ministry
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In the Easter story, women are the first to proclaim the resurrection – but…
Women made up only 14% of U.S. congregation leaders as of 2018-19, despite constituting nearly a quarter of professional clergy. That gap sits uneasily alongside Easter Gospel narratives in which women are the first — and sometimes only — witnesses to the resurrection.
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Paul VI’s emerald ring returns to Canterbury on Mullally’s finger
Mullally wore the emerald ring Paul VI gave to Michael Ramsey in 1966, while a belt buckle from her years as a working nurse was refashioned into the morse clasp of her cope — storied symbols grounding the ceremony in both ecumenical history and a life spent caring for the sick.
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The report Rome buried — and couldn’t keep secret
In 1976, a Vatican commission quietly reached a landmark conclusion on women’s ordination — and Rome quietly buried it. Fifty years later, that suppressed finding is back in focus, raising hard questions about authority, transparency, and what the Church’s own scholars actually said.
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The forbidden tree and a troubling picture of God
Placing a forbidden tree in a garden created out of love raises hard questions about the nature of God. Read literally, the Genesis story portrays the Divine as setting a trap, then punishing all humanity when the trap is sprung.
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