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by Sharon Groves Some are arguing that the recent LDS news conference on religious freedom and nondiscrimination was a strategic ploy to give the church a platform to fight for broad religious exemptions in upcoming nondiscrimination bills. Others view the statements as an incremental step forward that will create a wedge between Mormons and conservative […]
“A Place Like WATER” by Annabeth Roeschley If there is a place where hard work is sustained by hard laughter, hard play, I have found it at WATER. If there is a space created and cultivated for women to make waves in religion, I have dug it deeply at WATER. If there is an energy sparking […]
Wendy served as Staff Associate at the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) from 2012-2013 through the Loretto Volunteer Program. Going into WATER for the first time, I had a very vague picture of what my work was to be. Not for lack of trying. I had spent a great deal of time on […]
WATERtalks: Feminist Conversations in Religion Series “She Lives! Sophia Wisdom Works in the World” With Jann Aldredge-Clanton Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 1 PM EST Jann Aldredge-Clanton is an ordained minister, author, teacher, and chaplain. She currently serves as adjunct professor at Perkins School of Theology and Richland Community College, Dallas, Texas. She also serves as co-chair of […]
By Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA I wanted to share some very early reflections on what happened when I asked the DignityUSA network to mobilize around the “LGBT Black Bodies Matter” solidarity action brought to us by Yvette [Flunder] and Ann [Craig] (and thanks to Sharon [Groves] for ensuring we did not miss this!). […]
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 […]
By Diann L. Neu | Our lives can be viewed as three cups. At times we are empty, waiting to receive. Other days we are filling with possibilities. Another year we are overflowing.
by Diann L. Neu and Mary E. Hunt WATER staff surveyed the LGBTIQ religious landscape to assemble a diverse group of people to look at “amplifying women’s voices” in that movement. We identified some of the most pivotal people who are activists, academics, and ministers, taking into account intergenerational voices (from ages 22 to 66); […]
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 […]
by Robyn Henderson-Espinoza O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil – to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence! – […]
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