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Women In Church Leadership

Our Women in Church Leadership Initiative has grown from a project of the same name into several projects and resources that promote the full inclusive message of Jesus’ call to ministry for all the baptized. This effort includes our Celebrating Women Witnesses, Mary of Magdala, Women and the Word, Women Deacons, Women in Church Leadership, and Women in the Early Church projects. Each project has its own goals and resources for you to help advocate for a return to the practices of the early church which recognized the charism of both men and women.

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On Wednesday, November 20, 2024 FutureChurch hosted an in-person Launch Event for Catholic Women Preach: Raising…
On Thursday, October 17, 2024, FutureChurch hosted a launch event to celebrate publication of the Cycle C Volume…
On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, members of the church reform and renewal community gathered in virtual communit…
Laura James has expanded her “Mary Magdalene and the Risen Jesus” series with six new images to depi…
Stations of the Resurrection According to John Art by Laura James. Copyright Laura James, Rita L. Houlihan, Futu…
FutureChurch’s 2024 celebration of Mary Magdalene uplifts the role that women play in bearing witness to t…
Mary Magdalene did not look away, did not flee. She stayed and she wept And she fixed her gaze on the cross, on …
FutureChurch welcomes Professors Julie Hanlon Rubio and Natalia Imperatori-Lee for a conversation on faith, femi…
In response to Pope Francis’ May 2024 CBS interview rejecting the possibility of ordaining women as deacon…
FutureChurch welcomes co-authors, Sharon Henderson Callahan and Jeanette Rodriguez, to discuss their new book,  …
Olivia Hastie Reacts to Harrison Butker’s Commencement Remarks “We must always speak and act in charity.” …
Reflection by Jane Varner Malhotra Early in May I embarked on a pilgrimage with FutureChurch to civil rights sit…
Reflection by Ronnise Handy  I just returned from the FutureChurch Civil Rights and Racial Justice Pilgrimage wi…
FutureChurch welcomes Princeton Theological Seminary Associate Professor of New Testament, Lisa Marie Bowens, wh…
FutureChurch Program Associate, Olivia Hastie, moderates an intergenerational panel of women in scholarship and …
Jessica Coblentz joins FutureChurch to present on her article “Catholic Fasting Literature in a Context of Body …