A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church: Year W
Description
What would it look like if women built a lectionary focusing on women's stories?
What does it look like to tell the good news through the stories of women who are often on the margins of scripture and often set up to represent bad news? How would a lectionary centering women's stories, chosen with womanist and feminist commitments in mind, frame the presentation of the scriptures for proclamation and teaching?
The scriptures are androcentric, male-focused, as is the lectionary that is dependent upon them. As a result, many congregants know only the biblical men's stories told in the Sunday lectionary read in their churches. A more expansive, more inclusive lectionary will remedy that by introducing readers and hearers of scripture to "women's stories" in the scriptures.
A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, when completed, will be a three-year lectionary accompanied by a stand-alone single year lectionary, Year W, that covers all four gospels.
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About the Author
Wilda C. Gafney is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
Reviews
"Gafney's paradigm-shifting scholarship will influence biblical preaching and teaching for generations to come." --National Catholic Reporter
". . . some of the best of recent biblical scholarship . . . "
--Anglican Theological Review
". . . this resource will raise biblical literacy and illuminate figures and plotlines long left in the shadows."
--The Christian Century
--Christian Feminism Today "Gafney's thoughtful commentaries and provocative translations will breathe new life into your preaching and stretch your congregation's theological imagination . . ." --The Rev. Kate Spelman, Episcopal Preaching Foundation " . . . a beautifully written and profoundly challenging volume."
--The College of Preachers
