Women in Leadership

Thursday, March 3, 2022 12:30 PM 12:30
Thursday, March 10, 2022 2:30 PM 14:30

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Thursday March 3 & 10, 2022

1:30pm ET - online

Women and men leading together in churches have both a long history as well as recent developments. While women have always been involved in churches, recognition of their leadership varies across history and denominations. Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day (March 8) together by exploring what Women in Leadership looks like in two Canadian denominations that are researching the question.

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March 3

We’ll be joined by Amy Bratton and Cynthia Tam. Amy Bratton was part of the Women in Leadership Task Force in the Free Methodist Church in Canada. This task force conducted research in 2018-2020 with lay and ordained women leading in the church through surveys and interviews. Cynthia Tam is part of the Women in Leadership Collective for the Alliance Canada. They are currently conducting research across Canada with surveys and focus groups.

March 10

We’ll be in conversation with Joy Schroeder and Marion Ann Taylor, authors of Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters Through the Centuries. In their book, Schroeder and Taylor introduce readers to the notable contributions of female commentators through the centuries. They unearth fascinating accounts of Jewish and Christian women from diverse communities—rabbinic experts, nuns, mothers, mystics, preachers, teachers, suffragists, and household managers—who interpreted Scripture through their writings.

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Dr. Marion Ann Taylor, an expert and pioneer in the field of the history of women's biblical interpretation, is professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. Her publications include the award-winning Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide.

Dr. Joy A. Schroeder, a Lutheran pastor, specializes in the history of biblical interpretation. She is professor of church history at Trinity Lutheran Seminary and the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. She is the author of Deborah's Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation and several other books on the history of interpretation of scripture.

Cynthia Tam is an ordained pastor and the national coordinator for disability ministries of the Alliance Canada. She has a professional background of occupational therapy and a Ph.D. in practical theology. Cynthia is also involved with Village Eulogia for Families with Special Needs, an organization that focuses on supporting families raising children with disabilities.

Amy Bratton is the Director of Operations & Publishing for the New Leaf Network and the project manager for the Canadian Multivocational Ministry Project. She lives in Saskatoon, SK with her husband, Tim, and their two sons, Oswald and Ira. She is a lay leader at Riversdale Neighbours church and an Adjunct Professor with Rocky Mountain College in the area of Spiritual Formation. She writes and speaks about the history of Christian spirituality, with a focus on the early Methodist understanding of Christian maturity known as “perfect love.” Read more from her in her book Witnesses of Perfect Love: Narratives of Christian Perfection in Early Methodism.

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