Women and Religion in the News
| Irish Scholar Reveals who Gandmother of Virgin Mary Was
12/17/2010
The great-grandmother of Jesus, grandmother of the Virgin Mary, was a woman named Ismeria, according to a University of Limerick lecturer/historian who has analyzed Florentine medieval manuscripts.
"I don't think any other woman is mentioned" as Mary's grandmother in the Bible, the Limerick-based Catherine Lawless, told Discovery News. "Mary's patrilineal lineage is the only one given."
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| Heroic, Female and Muslim
12/15/2010
What’s the ugliest side of Islam? Maybe it’s the Somali Muslim militias that engage in atrocities like the execution of a 13-year-old girl named Aisha Ibrahim. ...
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| Why Elizabeth Edwards Left God Out of Her Last Goodbye
12/09/2010
A dying person's last words are often, and perhaps too easily, held out as the key to understanding all that went before, and so it has been with Elizabeth Edwards.
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| Judith’s Story Recalls Triumph — with a Nasty Sword
12/07/2010
When most of us think of Chanukah, we think of the Maccabees — the High Priest Mattathias and his five sons — and their religious and military struggle against the Hellenist Syrians. It's a pretty male-dominated story.
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| Catholics Await Gender-Neutral Liturgy
12/06/2010
"He" and "mankind" have been dropping from some religious texts in favor of gender-neutral terms. Lacking a papal initiative, priests who modify the Catholic liturgy are doing it one by one.
Father George Hill, a Catholic priest, says that when he looks out on women in his congregation, he finds it insulting to tell them to pray for the "peace and unity of mankind."
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| Korean-American Women and Ordination in the Church
12/03/2010
In 2004, I was the 40th Korean-American clergywomen to be ordained in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. denomination. Forty seems like such a small number when you consider that in 2011, Korean-American Clergywomen (KACW) will be celebrating their 20th anniversary. However, many Korean-American women are still wandering the desert of the ordination process without a rock, well, pitcher, or even a drop of water in sight to quench their thirst to serve as God has called them.
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| Church-based Outreach Group Caters to Prisoners' Human Needs
12/03/2010
Jesus left his followers with precious few commands: Love thy neighbor, feed the hungry, clothe the naked and visit the prisoner among them. So why do so many churches have such a hard time with that last one?
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank, for one, is waiting for a good answer.
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| Indian Widows Swell Temple-Filled Town
12/01/2010
The Indian temple town of Vrindavan continues to attract widows facing the traditional ostracism of village life. Many say they prefer to live on less than $1 a day than to go back to the families who cast them out.
Widows facing financial deprivation and ostracism in their villages continue to gravitate to the temple town of Vrindavan, in the largest state of Uttar Pradesh, to literally sing for their supper, finds a Nov. 29 study.
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| Israel's Divorce Ruling Leaves Matter Unsettled
11/30/2010
An Israeli women's rights organization is deciding whether to ask the High Court here to reconsider its ruling on a divorce practice it says allows men to blackmail estranged wives seeking to remarry.
"The court did not completely ban the practice of paying off recalcitrant husbands," said
Susan Weiss, director of the Jerusalem-based Center for Women's Justice.
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| The Other Puritan Dinner Party
11/25/2010
Years ago, I saw feminist artist Judy Chicago's legendary installation The Dinner Party (1979), a table set with hand-fashioned settings for 39 women guests of honor from Ishtar and Judith to Christine de Pisan and Sojourner Truth.
Seeing the Dinner Party was, of course, a religious experience, just as Chicago intended it to be.
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The Sister Fund in the News
| VIDEO: Kanyere Eaton Delivers Inspirational Welcome at Women's Funding Network Annual Conference 2010
04/22/2010
Kanyere Eaton, executive director of The Sister Fund, was invited to speak at the 2010 Women's Funding Network annual conference in Denver, Colorado on April 22nd. She delivered an inspirational welcome address about cheering each other on and taking encouragement from others so that we can continue on the long, hard road ahead. To watch the video, click here.
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| “Troublemaker” Women Honored, Receive Ivy
06/05/2009
What sort of religious institution honors a “run-like-hell Catholic” and the first Asian-American woman rabbi, among others?
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| Kompalya Thunderbird Interviews Kanyere Eaton and Linda Kay Klein
03/26/2009
The Sister Fund's executive director, Kanyere Eaton, and director of research and communications, Linda Kay Klein, discuss women, religion and justice on Public Radio Network. To listen to the interview, click here.
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| Faith Is Not the Enemy of Feminism
03/25/2009
A new report identifies three areas where women's empowerment and religion are linked: activism, scholarship, and popular culture.
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| Black Girls in New York City
03/09/2009
At the top of 2009, an exciting new report, "Black Girls in New York City: Untold Strength and Resilience," was released by the Black Women for Black Girls Giving Circle (BWBG), a funding initiative of The Twenty-First Century Foundation and the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), with support from The Sister Fund. The following is a sampling of press on the report.
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| Small Scope, Big Voice: The Value of Communications at a Small Foundation
11/25/2008
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