The story of the ordination of the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess - one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church. Reverend Betty Bone Schiess' engagingly written memoir is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of religious study as well as to feminist study and to legal scholarship, particularly on equal rights issues. Schiess draws parallels throughout her work to earlier efforts of the suffragettes and abolitionists of Seneca Falls.
The story of the ordination of the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess - one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church. Reverend Betty Bone Schiess' ...
This text looks at the roles of clergywomen in five denominations - Episcopal, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Southern Baptist, and Roman Catholic - and argues that there has been a widespread failure within the church itself to examine the position of women in its hierarchy.
This text looks at the roles of clergywomen in five denominations - Episcopal, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Southern Baptist, and Roman Cat...