New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views

Mary E. Hunt is co-founder and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and co-editor, with Patricia Beattie Jung and Radhika Balakrishnan, of Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions (2000).

Diann L. Neu is a feminist liturgist and minister, spiritual director and psychotherapist. Dr. Neu is the author of Return Blessings: Ecofeminist Liturgies Renewing the Earth and Women's Rites: Feminist Liturgies for Life's Journeys. She designs liturgies for faith and justice communities, especially the women-church movement.

Hunt and Neu are cofounders and codirectors of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), a feminist educational center dedicated to creating and sustaining inclusive communities in society and religion, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Kate M. Ott is a Christian ethicist and activist. Dr. Ott educates and writes
curricula for faith communities on issues of sexuality, childhood/adolescence,
and moral decision making. Dr. Ott is coauthor of the second edition of
A Time to Speak: Faith Communities and Sexuality Education. She wrote the
"Sexuality Education Curricula for Faith Communities: An Annotated Bibliography."
Her current writing project is a book, Sexuality, Faith, and Family:
Talking to Our Children from Toddlers to Teens.

Nancy Pineda-Madrid is assistant professor of theology and U.S. Latino/a
ministry at Boston College's School of Theology and Ministry. She holds a
doctoral degree in systematic and philosophical theology from the Graduate
Theological Union. Dr. Pineda-Madrid is working on a book that examines
the problematic intersection of suffering and the quest for salvation from a
Latina feminist perspective.

Marjorie Procter-Smith is the LeVan Professor of Christian Worship at Perkins
School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Procter-Smith is the
author of In Her Own Rite: Constructing Feminist Liturgical Tradition; Praying
With Our Eyes Open: Engendering Feminist Prayer; and The Church in Her
House: A Feminist Emancipatory Prayer Book for Christian Communities.

Meg A. Riley is senior minister of the Church of the Larger Fellowship and
has served the Unitarian Universalist movement. The Reverend Riley is the
founding president of Faith in Public Life: A Resource Center for Justice
and the Common Good. She has served on dozens of committees and
boards, including the Interfaith Alliance, Americans United for Separation
of Church and State, Interfaith Worker Justice, and the Religious Coalition
for Reproductive Choice.

Victoria Rue is a theater writer/director, professor, and Roman Catholic
woman priest. Dr. Rue works as a spiritual care counselor with VNA/Hospice
in Salinas, California. She is the author of Acting Religious: Theatre as Pedagogy
in Religious Studies. She is an activist working for the transformation of the
Roman Catholic Church as a woman and also as a lesbian. Her website is
www.victoriarue.com.

Rosemary Radford Ruether taught for twenty-seven years at the Garrett-
Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University and for six years
at the Graduate Theological Union. Dr.Ruether is an emerita professor at Garrett-
Evangelical and the Graduate Theological Union. She is the author or editor of
more than forty books and numerous articles, including Sexism and God-Talk:
Toward a Feminist Theology; Women-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist
Liturgical Communities; and Gaia & God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing.
She teaches at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni has authored or co-authored eight previous books, including Men, Women, and Change: A Sociology of Marriage and Family, and her classic Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? She is editor and publisher of the Evangelical & Ecumenical Women's Caucus publication Christian Feminism Today. Her many articles have appeared in numerous magazines, from Christianity Today and The Christian Century to the SIECUS Report and Utne Reader. Scanzoni is the mother of two and grandmother of five. She lives in southeastern Virginia.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza is Krister Stendahl Professor at Harvard Divinity School, a founding co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, and author of many important and influential works, among them In Memory of Her (1984), Bread Not Stone (1985), Jesus: Miriam"s Child, Sophia"s Prophet (1995), Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies (1999), The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (2007), and Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space (2009). Empowering Memory and Movement is the third volume in her collected essays from Fortress Press, including Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy (2011) and Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation (2013). She is editor of Searching the Scriptures (two volumes, 1993, 1994), a feminist introduction and commentary.

Jeanette Stokes is the founding director of the Center for Women and Ministry
in the South and an ordained Presbyterian minster. Rev. Stokes is the
author of Hurricane Season: Living Through a Broken Heart, a memoir about
recovering from divorce, and 25 Years in the Garden, a collection of essays. She
writes, paints, dances, gardens, and leads workshops on women, spirituality,
creativity, and social justice.

Janet Walton is professor of worship at Union Theological Seminary in New
York City. Dr. Walton focuses her research and teaching on ritual traditions
and practices in religious communities, with particular interest in artistic
dimensions, feminist perspectives, and commitments to justice. Her books
include Art and Worship: A Vital Connection; Sacred Sound and Social Change,
coedited with Lawrence Hoffman; Women at Worship: Interpretations of North
American Diversity, coedited with Marjorie Procter-Smith; and Feminist Liturgy:
A Matter of Justice.

Traci C.West is professor of ethics and African American studies at Drew University
Theological School. Dr. West is the author of Wounds of the Spirit: Black
Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics and Disruptive Christian Ethics: When
Racism and Women's Lives Matter, and editor of Our Family Values: Same-sex
Marriage and Religion. She is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.

Gale A. Yee is Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity
School. Dr. Yee is the author of many articles, essays, and books, including
Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible. She is currently
working on a book putting the Bible in the service of the U.N. Millennium
Development Goals.

Rachel A. R. Bundang is on the religious studies faculty at the Marymount
School in New York. Dr. Bundang earned her doctorate in constructive theologies,
praxis, and ethics from Union Theological Seminary. She was a Bannan
Fellow at Santa Clara University. Rooted in feminist ethics and Catholic
theology, Rachel's work takes her from the academy to the parish and beyond.

Wanda Deifelt is associate professor of religion at Luther College in Decorah,
Iowa. She is an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church in Brazil (IECLB).
Dr.Deifelt taught at Escola Superior de Teologia in São Leopoldo, Brazil, from
1991-2004, where she held the Chair of Feminist Theology. She writes and
lectures widely on liberation topics.

W. Anne Joh is associate professor of theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological
Seminary. Dr. Joh's research interests lie at the intersection of postcolonial
theory, feminist theology, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and critical race
and queer theories.Her latest project is postcolonial theological anthropology
in conversation with feminist theology and Gayatri Spivak, Giorgio Agamben,
Jan Mohammed, and Michele Foucault.

Kwok Pui-lan is the William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality
at Episcopal Divinity School. Dr. Kwok's many publications include
Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology and Introducing Asian Feminist
Theology. She has edited Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American
Women's Religion and Theology and Empire and the Christian Tradition: New
Readings of Classical Theologians. She is active in professional societies, including
the American Academy of Religion, where she was elected as president.

Cynthia Lapp is pastor at Hyattsville Mennonite Church in Maryland. She
studied music at Eastern Mennonite University and theology at Wesley Theological
Seminary. Music is a central mode of her ministry. Social justice concerns
shape her work in the broader community as well as in Mennonite
circles.

Shelly Matthews is the Dorothy and B. H. Peace Jr. Associate Professor of
Religion at Furman University. The Reverend Matthews is ordained in the
Dakotas Area Conference of the United Methodist Church. She is the author
of First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early
Judaism and Christianity and Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the
Construction of Christian Identity.

Eleanor Moody-Shepherd is vice president of academic affairs, academic
dean, and professor of women's studies at New York Theological Seminary.
The Rev. Dr.Moody-Shepherd is a clergywoman who pastors a church that is
part of the Presbyterian Church USA. She mentors women in the academy
and the church. She is engaged in struggle against all of the "isms" that continue
to divide and leave scars on bodies and souls.

Surekha Nelavala received her doctorate from Drew University. Dr. Nelavala's
dissertation is titled Liberation beyond Borders: Dalit Feminist Hermeneutics
and Four Gospel Women. She engages in biblical scholarship as a way of doing
justice work. She is the author of Paradigms of Authority in the New Testament:
Women's Perspective, as well as articles in international journals.