Emerging Women

At the recent Emerging Women Midwest Gathering, Elsie Rivera Palabrica gave a presentation on St. Teresa of Avila as a woman who re-imagined. Due to technical difficulties, we were unable to show the powerpoint with all of the illustrations. But she has made the presentation on St. Teresa of Avila, monasticism and centering prayer is available to anyone who would like a copy (in pdf or powerpoint format). Let us know if you’d like a copy, with notes, emailed to you by leaving a comment or sending an email to emergingwomen@gmail.com.

Elsie also writes – “The centering prayer website recommended in the presentation is www.centeringprayer.com. The text of the most popular book on centering prayer, Open Heart, Open Mind by Thomas Keating, is available at www.centeringprayer.com/OpenHeart/index.htm – note, this link isn’t directly accessible through the main website so be sure to bookmark it.”

I mentioned last week, that Peter Rollins author of “How (Not) to Speak of God” spent some time with our community. If anyone is interested, we recorded his time with us. I posted the link to our site. You can download the discussions. He is a funny and interesting guy. If you are reading the book or interested in hearing more, please check it out.
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Hi all.

I wanted to pass along a new resource I came across. Apparently Christianity Today has created a site called Gifted for Leadership to encourage women to use the gifts God has given them. It seems to just be getting going, but has some good articles posted so far. It’s worth checking out.

I threw out a bunch of resources related to the web and writing during one of our last sessions at the East Coast Gathering and wanted to post what I could here.

If you want to create your own blog where you can use your voice and write check out –
Blogger
Typepad (costs money)
LiveJournal
Multiply

If you want to be a posting member of this blog, Emerging Women, – email me at emergingwomen@gmail.com

Check out the Emergent Village site. This is the organization that is helping lead the emerging church conversation. They are looking for theology articles and articles about women and faith. Follow the links to read more and find out the details regarding submitting articles.

Also on the Emergent Village site, find out information about Emergent Cohorts (about connecting with one, starting one, and about what they are discussing).

Another great place to join in on the conversation is theooze. Check out the message boards for a wide variety of conversations. As for writing, they are looking for original submissions of:
General articles or essays (Culture, Faith and Ministry)
Reviews of current books, movies, music, and the arts (everything from comic books to galleries).
Interviews.
Creative writing, and Poetry.
Articles can be up to 4,500 words in length, although they can and occasionally do publish larger articles in two or three separate sections.
Articles can be submitted to here (Ooze username is required)or emailed to galadriel@theooze.com.

I encourage the women here to use their voice in whatever way God has called them to.

At least, I like lists that are not of the “to do” nature. I’ve been using Squidoo to keep track of my techie lists, so today I’ve decided to start an emerging women resource lens (aka list). It is kind of small right now, so if you’ve got ideas on things to add either leave a comment here or leave a blurb there.

I had a conversation with a woman from a publishing concern (InterVarsity Press) who has expressed some professional interest in our ‘women-in-ministry’ stories, with the added suggestion that ‘women-in-leadership’ might reach a larger and broader audience. Sooooooooooooo, if you want to help with this effort, send me [mizliz00725@hotmail.com] your favorite or most touching or most maddening ‘women of faith in action’ stories to collect and collate and send on to IVP. I’m not giving a word limit or such; I’m confident the stories will determine most of that themselves. At the end, please supply me with your name as you might want to see it in print, a title or postion if you want, and city/state. If you have questions or concerns or an idea for a killer title for such a book as this, just email me. Thanks – and let the stories be told!
Liz