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).

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.

María Pilar Aquino is professor of theology and religious studies at the University
of San Diego. Dr. Aquino was a visiting professor of theology at Harvard
Divinity School. She is the author of Our Cry for Life: Feminist Theology
from Latin America; La teología, la iglesia y la mujer en América Latina (Theology,
the Church and Women in Latin America); and Teología feminista Latinoamericana
(Latin American Feminist Theology). She organizes and convenes
Latina feminist scholars and activists in religion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.