Author: Charli Kellaway

Dr. Mae Speight

City: Freeport, Maine Title: “Mainline Women in Campus Ministry, 1950-1975” Abstract: In the middle of the twentieth century, women of the American Protestant mainline were serving in church roles on the margins of ministry that enabled their later entrance into the formal, ordained ministry in greater numbers. They were minister’s wives and teachers of religious

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Margo Guernsey

Academic Affiliation: Emerson College Documentary Screening: “The Philadelphia Eleven” a film by Margo Guernsey Description: In a 1974 act akin to civil disobedience, a group of eleven women and their supporters organize their unauthorized ordination as Episcopal priests. A church in North Philadelphia welcomes them, and a group of male bishops ordain them, making headlines

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