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Amplifying Marginalized Voices Interviews

Amplifying Marginalized Voices is a clearinghouse established by WATER to share articles and media among feminist religious thinkers and activists for the advancement of equality for all. The following interviews with activists from around the country about what it means to amplify marginalized voices were conducted at the December 2014 Consultation near Baltimore, Maryland. Marianne […]

Press Release: Black LGBT Religious Leaders Act with Historically Black Churches: “Black Bodies Matter”

LGBT Black Christians and faith leaders join tens of thousands of historically Black congregations/denominations and allies to wear black to church on Sunday, December 14 in response to police brutality: “Black LGBT bodies must matter, too!” Spokespersons – Bishop Yvette Flunder, Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM) – Rev. Elder Darlene Garner,Director […]

Faith Doesn’t Need Walls: A Conversation with Kate Kelly by Kate Stoltzfus

Originally posted in Feminism & Religion When Kate Kelly faced excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in June 2014, much of the world took notice. The D.C.-based human rights lawyer garnered wide-spread attention for founding Ordain Women, a movement to push for advocacy of female ordination in her Mormon faith. A […]

Mary Ann McGivern on Women and the Catholic Church

How do women get the ear of Pope Francis? By Mary Ann McGivern Originally posted in NCR Mary E. Hunt, co-director of WATER and occasional contributor to NCR, hosted a Christmas party in Washington, D.C. My fellow Loretto sister and NCR blogger and radio host Maureen Fiedler was a guest. She and Mary began a playful […]