<div dir="auto">FYI. Catherine </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">FutureChurch</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:debrose@futurechurch.org">debrose@futurechurch.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:09 AM<br>Subject: April closes out with two great "Women Erased" events on Tuesday and Thursday: Women Religious and Resistance on Tuesday! The Magdalene Mystery on Thursday!<br>To: <<a href="mailto:catherine.walther@gmail.com">catherine.walther@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Most Catholics know the importance of religious sisters in their communities and in their lives. Older Catholics were often taught by religious women while younger Catholics may know religious women because of their ministry and leadership in their parishes and their work in the community. Still, many Catholics are limited in their understanding of the scope and magnitude of the pioneering efforts of Catholic women religious in the United States. The stereotype of the obedient Catholic nun who unquestioningly submits to clerical male authority still lurks in the Catholic imagination.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Professor Margaret Susan Thompson is an expert in the history of Catholic women religious in the United States. Her decades long research spans the origins of women's religious life, the often-treacherous foundings of the first North American communities, the lives of pioneer nuns, ethnic and assimilation issues, tensions with clergy, Vatican II and its impacts, current circumstances, and much more. In this two-part presentation she will show us how the history of the Catholic Church in the United States was indelibly shaped by the contributions of sisters - by their work in the parochial school system, their founding and administration of hundreds of hospitals, and untold numbers of charitable organizations. These ministries have transformed the lives of millions of Catholics and the social and humanitarian character of the nation
itself. Sisters also have long been advocates for social justice, and unlike most priests, have always provided services not only for Catholics but for the entire population. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">As laypeople, like most Catholics, sisters have experienced the impact of "engendered power" applied to them by generations of priests and prelates. This presentation will reveal the perhaps surprising history of their resistance and suggest ways we can all learn from their experience as we work collaboratively to build a future church that is more egalitarian and supportive for all believers.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Biography: </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Margaret S. Thompson is Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is also the Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Prof. Thompson was trained as a political historian, with a focus on the nineteenth-century United States and, particularly, the Congress. Her first book, <em>The “Spider Web”: Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant</em> (Cornell University Press), reflects both her scholarly and hands-on experience, the latter as American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. Recently, Professor Thompson’s work has focused on the history of American Catholic nuns. She has written and lectured extensively on the subject, and has an 18-lecture audio series available through NowYouKnowMedia.com. Her research is from an explicitly feminist perspective, emphasizing the agency and social significance of sisters to American religious and secular history. As a result of this research, she has had the privilege of speaking internationally
as well as across the U.S., and has served as a consultant to numerous documentarians and religious communities. Her forthcoming book, <em>The Yoke of Grace: American Nuns and Social Change, 1809-1917</em>, is under contract with Oxford University Press.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f"><em>While it is common today to refer to Jesus’s disciple Μαρία[μ] ἡ Μαγδαληνή as Mary “of Magdala,” with Magdala identified as a Galilean city named Tarichaea, what do our earliest Christian sources actually indicate about the meaning of this woman’s name? Examination of the Gospel of Luke, Origen, Eusebius, Macarius Magnes, and Jerome, as well as evidence in hagiography, pilgrimage, and diverse literature, reveals multiple ways that the epithet ἡ Μαγδαληνή can be understood. While Mary sometimes was believed to come from a place called “Magdala” or “Magdalene,” the assumption was that it was a small and obscure village, its location unspecified or unknown. Given the widespread understanding that Mary Magdalene was the sister of Martha, it could even be equated with Bethany. However, Jerome
thought that the epithet was a reward for Mary’s faith and actions, not something indicative of provenance: Mary “of the Tower.” No early Christian author identifies a city (Tarichaea) called “Magdala” by the Sea of Galilee, even when they knew the area well. A pilgrim site on ancient ruins, established as “Magdala” by the mid-sixth century, was visited by Christians at least into the fourteenth century, and thus the name is remembered today. In view of the earlier evidence of Origen and Jerome, however, the term ἡ Μαγδαληνή may be based on an underlying Aramaic word meaning “the magnified one” or “tower-ess,” and is therefore best left untranslated</em>.<br></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f"><strong>Elizabeth Schrader</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Oregon-raised and now based in Durham, NC, Elizabeth "Libbie" Schrader is a doctoral candidate in Early Christianity at Duke University. Her studies focus on Mary Magdalene, the Gospel of John, textual criticism, and feminist theology. Schrader has recently transitioned to religious scholarship after a long career as a singer/songwriter. Her research is already receiving critical acclaim as she advances new theories about the origins of Mary Magdalene.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f"><strong>Prof. Joan Taylor</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">After a BA degree at Auckland University, New Zealand, Joan completed post-graduate studies at the University of Otago and then went to the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (Kenyon Institute) as Annual Scholar in 1986. She undertook a PhD at New College, Edinburgh University, and was appointed in 1992 to a position of lecturer (subsequently senior lecturer) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in the departments of both Religious Studies and History. In 1995 she won an Irene Levi-Sala Award in Israel’s archaeology, for the book version of her PhD thesis, <em>Christians and the Holy Places</em> (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993, rev. 2003). In 1996-7 she was Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in Women’s Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School, a position she held in association with a Fulbright Award.
She has also been Honorary Research Fellow in the Departments of History and Jewish Studies at University College London. She has taught at King’s College London since 2009.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Joan’s approach is multi-disciplinary; she works in literature, language, history and archaeology. She has written numerous books and articles in her fields of interest.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Professor Carol Meyers knows that Eve has gotten a bad rap in Jewish and Christian tradition: seductress, first sinner, cause of male domination––the list goes on. But does she deserve it? This presentation will take advantage of the fact that we have just marked the 100th anniversary of the historic 19th Amendment to review some of the ways the suffragettes tried to deal with the problem of Eve in the Eden narrative. Then it will show how biblical scholarship of the 21st century rescues Eve from notoriety and even elevates her above Adam!</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Women in the biblical period were just “wives and mothers.” Right? Not at all. Rather, they had important economic and social roles. Using archaeological materials as well as biblical texts, this presentation examines AND evaluates women’s contributions to everyday life. This approach shows that women had a greater role in Israelite culture than might otherwise have been imagined.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f"><strong>Session three: May 19 at 8:00pm EST</strong><br><strong>Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women (with PowerPoint)</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Who were the most important religious figures in ancient Israel? Most people would say that the priests were. But they would be wrong. The major arena of religious life for most people in the biblical period was the household, and the major figures in household religious activities were women. This lecture takes you into the Israelite household, largely invisible in the Bible, and presents an array of archaeological materials and fascinating ethnographic data to reveal women’s household religious activities.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f"><strong>Biography: </strong> CAROL MEYERS is the Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Duke University. She received the A.B. with honors from Wellesley College and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Meyers has published more than 450 articles, reports, reference-book entries, and reviews; and she has authored, co-authored, or edited twenty-two books. Her 2013 book, Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, is a landmark study of women in ancient Israelite society. Meyers has worked on numerous digs since she was an undergraduate and has co-directed several archaeological projects in Israel. She has been a frequent consultant for media productions relating to archaeology and the Bible, including A&E’s Mysteries of the Bible series, DreamWorks’s “Prince
of Egypt,” NOVA’s “The Bible’s Buried Secrets,” and several National Geographic documentaries. She has served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature and is currently a trustee of the American Society of Overseas Research, the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, and the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">In her critically acclaimed book <strong>Crispina and Her Sisters</strong>, author Christine Schenk, C.S.J. explores the archaeological and literary evidence for women’s leadership in early Christianity. Schenk’s original research into visual imagery found on burial artifacts demonstrates that women were far more influential in the ancient world than has been commonly recognized. Yet their paradigm-shifting witness has been all but erased from Christian memory. Join us for a fascinating visual journey and consider what it may mean for women and men today.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f"><strong>Biography</strong><br>Christine Schenk, CSJ has worked as a nurse midwife to low-income families, a community organizer, an award-winning writer-researcher, and the founding director of an international church reform organization, FutureChurch. Her first book Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity (Fortress Press, 2017) received a first place in history from the Catholic Press Association and her most recent work, To Speak the Truth in Love: A Biography of Sr. Theresa Kane RSM (OrbisBooks 2019) received first place awards from The Association of Catholic Publishers and the Catholic Press Association. She writes a regular column for the National Catholic Reporter and is one of three nuns featured in the award-winning documentary Radical Grace.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Join Professor Patel as we explore her research showing that in the early church, women served clerical roles as ordained ministers called deacons and presbyters, both subordinate to the higher-ranking bishops. </p>Scholars agree that we should think of Christianities in the plural when we think of the era of Christian origins. There was never one Christianity, in other words. Women’s clerical leadership, likewise, spanned a range from women being thought of as prophetic mouthpieces for Christ himself to being relegated to silence during worship. In this talk, we’ll explore evidence supporting women’s clerical leadership from lesser-known sources and some of the ways we moderns have sought to erase this evidence in order to advance the idea of a coherent Christianity stretching back to the apostolic age. From manuscript variants,
to prophetic utterings, to the stories of women martyrs and “monks,” we’ll survey the various ways women
<em>could </em>occupy leadership roles in ancient Christianities and consider the role of history in shaping the present.
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f"><strong>Biography</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Shaily Patel is assistant professor of early Christianity in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the diversity of early Christianity and how discourses of magic helped solidify Christian group identities. Currently, she is working on a book called <em>Smoke and Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions</em>.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;color:#6f6f6f">Please join us for this remarkable event.</p>
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