Women Magazine articles from December 2000

Women Magazine archives from December 2000

Women, where are we going? (Editorial).
December 1, 2000... Dear Readers, Where are we going--globally ? Let us begin with economics. Most world leaders have come to an understanding that economic globalization is inevitable and irreversible. The dawn of the 21st century has not given us...

Sabbath-Jubilee economics: a biblical response to economic globalization and the international debt crisis.
December 1, 2000... Since the 1980s, "economic globalization" has been a harsh fact of life for people around the world. Some believe globalization is just a description of how the global economy is becoming more integrated through increased trade liberalization...

The three foci of feminist theologies.
December 1, 2000... A white, privileged North American feminist theologian should not be so foolhardy as to attempt to say some general things about feminist theology today. To attempt to do so is to risk falling into the very trap that feminist theologies have so...

Anna: as a precursor of feminist theology.
December 1, 2000... There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but...

The 44th session of the UN Commission on Status of Women.
December 1, 2000... 28 February-17 March 2000 Background The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was established as a functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 1946 to prepare recommendations and reports to the Council on...

United Nations 23rd General Assembly Special Session (Beijing +5).
December 1, 2000... My God! What remarkable and powerful women we have in this world was the first impression that came to mind as I sat amidst a mass of women activists and feminists from all over the world. They not only brought their collective bargaining...

Latvian women theologians in the year 2000.
December 1, 2000... In the 18 years during which the ordination of women had been practiced in the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church (LELC) ten or so women had been ordained. When the church ceased to ordain women in 1993, those women who were already serving in...

Stories from Liberia.(delegation of women visit Liberia)
December 1, 2000... This feature was written during the visit of a five-member international ecumenical delegation of women to Liberia, from 26 July to 2 August 2000. It is one of a series on the West African country. The five women went to Liberia to find out...

The heavens are telling the glory of God...report on the Quadrennial Convention, Evangelical Lutheran Women, Canada.
December 1, 2000... ... and all creation is shouting for joy. Come, dance in the forest, come, play in the field, and sing, sing to the glory of the Lord. (1.) They did, indeed, dance, play and sing as the Evangelical Lutheran Women (ELW) of the Evangelical...

Gender: a just analytical tool: a paper presented to the staff at the LWF week of meetings, October 2000.
December 1, 2000... We live in a world context that is increasingly and speedily becoming polarized. On the one hand, the concepts of nation-statism, scientism, macro development and the market economy are being upheld as ideals for nation building. On the other...

From the women's desk. (News).(Rev. Margaret G. Payne elected bishop of New England Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Rev. Margaret G. Payne, Shelburne, was elected on June 2, 2000 to a six-year term as bishop of the New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). "I knew I would feel equal parts of honor and terror," Payne said,...

Third woman bishop elected in Germany. (News).(to North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... September 23, 2000, Barbel Wartenberg-Potter was elected as the new bishop of the Holstein-Lubeck district of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany. Maria Jepsen, the first female bishop in Germany was elected as bishop of the...

Lutheran pastor becomes Ethiopia's first ordained woman! (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Rev. Bekure Daba of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus was ordained on May 16 at a colorful and spiritual ceremony in the Western Synod of the EECMY was marked as a historic church event. Bekure, 39, has been serving the church...

Lutheran Church in Liberia ordains two women pastors for the first time in its history. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Rev. Lydia Mannawu Weagba and Rev. Dorothy T. Schellant were ordained on April 30, 2000. Rev. Lydia Mannawu Weagba is the daughter of one of the retired pastors of the Lutheran Church in Liberia She has a Degree in Education from the Kakata...

Second woman ordained in Ethiopia. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The ordination of Mrs. Hirut Megersa, August 6, 2000, brought to two the number of ordained women pastors in the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY). Rev. Megersa graduated from the Mekane Yesus Theological Seminary with a diploma...

Time for reflection on women's ordination, says Lutheran Church in, Australia. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Lutheran Church in Australia has asked its 100,000 members to reflect on the issue of women's ordination following a narrow defeat of the resolution on this subject at the Church's national convention on July 25th in Barossa Valley near...

Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in India ordains three women for the first time in its history. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In the midst of its Jubilee Celebrations, the Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in India ordained Mrs. Marian Minz, Ms. Isabella Barla, and Ms. Ashishan Kandulna on October 26, 2000. Mrs Mariam Minz will continue her teaching ministry in...

Women's Creativity in Rural Life. (News).(awards from Women's World Summit Foundation)
December 1, 2000... Meet Felicita (above, left) from Peru who is one of the three women to have won the prestigious Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life awarded each year by the Women's World Summit Foundation based in Geneva. Felicita works in a rural area...

Accept me as I am.(Poem)
December 1, 2000... Accept me as I am Why do you look at me so weird? Your eyes spell disdain. What have I done? What is wrong with me? Won't you hold my hand, And be my eyes for me. My world is dark, But I hear what you...