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Order New Book by Diann L. Neu Today!
For years, religious leaders and communities around the world have turned to the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) for feminist liturgies for justice. Now—in celebration of the organization’s thirty-fifth anniversary—Stirring Waters gathers fifty-two of these beautiful liturgies, ready-made to help your community celebrate powerful women of faith, develop a richer and deeper spirituality, and take real action for justice.
Use the liturgies in this book as a resource to nourish souls and focus passions. Reflect on great women like the prophetess Miriam and Julian of Norwich; provoke and disturb on occasions like Earth Day and World Water Day; energize on International Women’s Day and Black History Month; and rejuvenate drooping spirits with liturgies of healing and gratitude. Never again will you scramble or struggle to provide community prayer that is worthwhile, nourishing, and even electrifying.
Request your copy by ordering online or by sending a check to the WATER office (to be released March 2020).
Come Intern at WATER!
Are you or someone you know interested in learning the ins and outs of a feminist nonprofit? We welcome you to the table—WATER is now accepting internship applications!
Summer 2019 Interns enjoying tea in the WATER office, left to right: Kennedy Thedford, Melissa Feito (Summer 2017), Claire Coker, Kali Lo-Ng, and Emily Neufeld in the WATER office in 2019.
For over 36 years, WATER has hosted and trained more than 85 interns. We offer an opportunity to learn how a small non-profit operates and see what it takes to empower and sustain a wide network of feminists and activists across the country and worldwide.
Here are just some of the opportunities WATER interns have:
- Program and event planning
- Assistance with writing and editing projects such as WATERtalks, WATERrituals, WATERcast, WATERwheel newsletters, journal and web articles, books, and presentations
- Non-profit fundraising
- WATER community outreach via phone, email, and listserv to our broad network of colleagues
- Hosting Visiting Scholars, ministers and guests
- Maintenance of social media platforms including the website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and more
- Read and review the latest feminist books and films
- Attend social justice events and rallies in the DMV area
- Join or initiate conversations with prominent feminist scholars, activists, religious leaders, and more
Applications are accepted throughout the year, and interns are invited to come at any time. Click here for more information about the internship. Feel free to start filling out the WATER Intern App 2019 (PDF version) or WATER Intern App 2019 (Word doc). Contact the office with other questions at (301) 589-2509 or send an email to waterstaff@waterwomensalliance.org.
We hope that you or a young feminist you know is interested in working with us at WATER!
In the News
Rich portrait of a social change agent in biography of Grail leader Anne Hope
By Mary E. Hunt
Follow the link to read Mary E. Hunt’s latest for the National Catholic Reporter.
By Mary E. Hunt
Follow the link to read Mary E. Hunt’s latest for Religion Dispatches.
Dignity: From Founding to Flourishing Dignity LA 50th Anniversary Celebration
By Mary E. Hunt
Follow the link to read Mary E. Hunt’s speech given at the Dignity Los Angeles 50th Anniversary Celebration!
By Mary E. Hunt
“We know what womanist Incarnation looks like at the podium, in the classroom, in the pulpit, and indeed, on the dance floor in the person of Katie Geneva Cannon.”
Mary Hunt Interviewed on Cuban News
A Cuban news clip, covering Dr. Ofelia Ortega’s reception of her Doctorate of Ministry in Matanzas, Cuba. Mary gives an interview from the event. Click here to watch the clip.
“How equality can flourish in a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-national, multi-generational church. What does this church look like physically, spiritually, doctrinally?”
Mary E. Hunt moderated this panel given by Mariam Williams, Marian Ronan, Kathleen Grimes, and Sonja Spoo at Swarthmore Meeting House on April 6, 2019. Click here to watch the video.
Teología, mujeres y fe: tejiendo redes y sueños
By Daylins Rufin Pardo
Mary Hunt and Diann Neu traveled to Cuba to support and celebrate Dr. Ofelia Ortega’s reception of her Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary. This article on ALC News Agency recounts the ceremony and panel.
Feminist Theologians Bring Wisdom to Fiction | Catholic Reporter
By Mary E. Hunt
Catholic Women in the Midst of It All | Christian Feminism Today
By Mary E. Hunt
Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network (FLTN) Presentations
Click here to access Mary E. Hunt’s introduction along with presentations by Cynthia Moe-Lobeda and Susan Thistlewaite.
Complex Dreams for Women in Religious Studies
By Mary E. Hunt
“The best work of feminists in religion, especially the content of our teaching, research, and activism, is critical of our established order, disruptive of the status quo, and meant to empower people to change the morally hideous context in which we find ourselves.”
On Pride and Against Prejudice
By Mary E. Hunt
“The simple answer is that pride is a survival mechanism for dealing with prejudice.”
Vatican’s ‘Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument’ on Gender Can’t Stop Changes in Catholicism
By Mary E. Hunt
The past two popes insist, against mounting evidence, that the gender binary, male and female, is given in nature and blessed by God. God, a male after all, created them Male and Female. The Genesis account inconveniently leaves out the detail about the blue and pink blankets and onesies.
Feminist theologian Dr. Mary E. Hunt kicks off DignityUSA conference
by Carrie Maxwell
DignityUSA celebrates 50 years of Supporting LGBTQ Catholics
by Catherine M.Odell
Pope Francis dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops
By Mary E. Hunt
“In continuing to oppose women’s ordination the pope argues that something has to be revealed in order for it to be done; but that we don’t do it so it must not have been revealed. A cursory examination of change on Catholic views of the death penalty and usury make quick mincemeat of that argument. Revelation provides direction toward increased justice; it’s not a checklist of historical givens.”