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All the information about out 2024 Conference, including links to book your place, are available at the link below.
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Dr Patricia Brennan – A prophet of our times
Address by Dr Gwenneth Roberts, at St John's Cathedral in Brisba...
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VALE – ELAINE ANNE PETERSON (9/4/1934 – 15/8/2024)
Convenor, Sydney MOW 2000-04
‘A wonderful woman, ...
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“Imagine”, writes Maureen Fiedler, “a church service so controversial that police officers are stationed down the ...
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The Rev'd Dr Lesley McLean has completed a detaled analysis of the language of the Book of Common Prayer and its revisio...
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‘I can certainly see no theological argument against the ordination of women. We are all God’s children, male and fe...
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The Ven. Val Graydon, one of the first group of women to be ordained as priest in the Anglican Church of Australia, pass...
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Sydney MOW celebrated 40 years of activism on behalf of women’s ordination in the Diocese of Sydney on 17 September 20...
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The Diocese of the Murray made history on 12 August 2023 when the Bishop, the Right Reverend Keith Dalby, ordained three...
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MOW PRAYER DIARY FOR THE DIOCESE OF PERTH
This diary recognises ordained Anglican women in the Diocese of P...
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On 18 September 2021, at an online meeting, Dr Patricia Mayne spoke to Sydney MOW members on
the history of TAMAR (1996...
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On 22 October 2022, the Rev’d Dr Josephine Armour spoke to MOW members via zoom, addressing
the question How can trin...
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The Diocese of Adelaide celebrated the 30th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood at St Peter’s Cat...
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A lecture in honour of the life and legacy of pioneer the Reverend Caroline Pearce was hosted by St John's Chu...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury visits Australia
Here he is with the Anglican Communion's first female archbishop, the M...
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Celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day gains momentum across Episcopal Church
BY DAVID PAULSEN
Posted Oct 7, 2022
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THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE WAS AN OUTSTANDING SUCCESS!
Held at Christ Church St Laurence, 812 George Street, ...
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Mary is honoured throughout Christendom on 15 August
“The Church is a place of revolution without violence...
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When the bishops of Australia were meeting with the Primate prior to General Synod it was an ideal opportunity to begin ...
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MOW AT GENERAL SYNOD 2022 AND THE MOTION ON THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOMEN’S ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD
Four us trav...
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Dear MOW supporters and friends
As you know, we are committed to challenging and transforming the Anglican ...
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Thirty Years of Women Priests
This year, 2022, is the 30th Anniversary of the ordination of the first wome...
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St Brigid of Kildare - a reflection on one woman and her ministry ...
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In 2022, the Rev’d Dr Lesley McLean, President of MOW, noted that, all over Australia dioceses, parishes, small groups...
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In 2021 one of MOW’s pioneers, Dr Gwenneth Roberts was the inspiration and principal researcher behind an exhibition a...
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It is hard to believe that 30 years have elapsed since the challenging days of 1992 when the Anglican Church's struggle ...
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Ro Yule, an artist living in Victoria designed the logo for the celebration of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood...
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I am preparing to preach on my hero, Richard Hooker tomorrow, Wednesday 4/11. There is a very inspiring piece in a book ...
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MOW Australia Ltd Annual General Meeting 9 October 2021
HIGHLIGHTS
The 2021 AGM for MOW Australia Ltd w...
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Kirsty Beilharz reflects on her year of remote learning through Trinity’s Theological School.
My experience...
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Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne is partnering with St James' Institute in Sydney and offering a series o...
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Jacqueline is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Charles Sturt University (St Mark’s National Theological Centre), Can...
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A Poem Dedicated to former MOW Vice President, Alison Gent
Thinness
Thinness, as of a perfect edge,
r...
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Q&A with Sandra Montes
By Heather Beasley Doyle
Posted Jul 29, 2021
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Professor Eileen Baldry AO for distinguished service to tertiary education, to criminology and socia...
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Canon Emily Awino Onyango
Posted on: January 18, 2021 4:10 PM
The new Assistant Bishop of Bondo, the Rig...
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The Reverend Caroline Heath Pearce
Born October 17, 1944 Millicent
Died 15th September, 2020 Wayville
(An update: C...
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The Revd Canon Professor Dorothy A. Lee, FAHA is the Stewart Research Professor of New Testament at TRINITY COLLEGE THEO...
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The International Anglican Women's Network (IAWN) helps connect Anglican Women with each other.
This came w...
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On Thursday 10 June, Julia Baird convened a discussion on domestic violence in the Anglican Church on The Drum.
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DEMAND FOR CHURCH AUTHORITIES TO ADDRESS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH
The Movement for the Ordi...
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Sermon delivered by the Dean of St Peter’s Cathedral Adelaide, South Australia, the Very Rever...
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Gender-Balanced Belief: A New Ethic for Christianity: a new book by Mavis Rose
Gender-Balanced Belief calls on the chu...
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Bishop Bruce Wilson's funeral was held at St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney at 10am on Monday 29 March 2021.
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Muriel Gorrie was the third person to join the newly formed National Movement for the Ordination of Women in Adelaide in...
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A celebration of Anglican women’s history in Brisbane Diocese
From Biscuits to Bishop is a multimedia exh...
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Bishop of Swaziland and global environment advocate Ellinah Wamukoya dies from Covid
Bishop Ellinah Wamukoya
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Traditionally, Irish people regard today, 1 February, the feast of Saint Brigid of Kildare as the first day of Spring. T...
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TRINITY COLLEGE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL
MELBOURNE, VICTORIA
FACULTY Q&A
NAME: Dr Rachelle Gilmour
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Trinity College alum profile: Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson moved to Australia from the US and found fulfilli...
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The Anglican Communion’s first female bishop
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Sr Helen CSC, writes the Eulogy for Sr Frances, who died in January. Sr Frances was the Sister-in-Charge...
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Patteson’s Cross, Nukapu
‘Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoev...
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Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which He looks
Compassi...
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www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/12/09/pauli-murray-inspires-new-generation-of-firebrand-black-queer-episcopal-leaders/...
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Heather Sizer was ordained as a local priest to the church in Wirrabarra in the mid-north of South Australia by Bishop D...
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Preparing, educating, equipping
You may be aware, the Appellate Tribunal has presented their determination regardin...
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Elizabeth Murray admits that many others saw her leadership potential before she did, and she’s now thankful tha...
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Psalm 93 A calm authority
That with divine wisdom we may sufficiently contains the energies we have unl...
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St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide presents a talk about one of its stained gl...
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Two Anglican schools in Australia have celebrated a century and a quarter of ministry by sisters of the Anglic...
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Known as Sister Caroline Amy and, later, Mother Caroline, Caroline Amy Balguy started her religious life at th...
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How not to live in lockdown
Simone Weil (1909-1943) is a thinker of ‘asphasia’: the inability to speak ...
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Recently a female seminarian posted the following lament on Twitter:
“You’d think after all these years in semina...
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becoming Georgia’s first LGBTQ state senator
The Rev. Kim Jackson speaks du...
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Kathryn Ashworth’s quest for God led her from the Christianity of her upbringing to New Age spiritual practices to a d...
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Archbishop of York lays foundation stone for new Priory at Whitby
There has been a monastic community in th...
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May the God of Eve teach you to dance.
May the God of Hagar bring you comfort in the desert.
May the God of Miriam bri...
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The New Scapegoats: The clergy victims of the Anglican Church sexual abuse crisis, by Muriel Porter (Morning Star Publis...
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As I prepare on a Saturday for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy, to preside at the Eucharist, I am someti...
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MOW 1987 song When I was conceived you knew me
Click on the link above. Page 2 appears first.
The song, with Lyric...
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There have been some very public debates within the Church of Ireland and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland about the d...
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As I travel with you today, my Lord,
may my steps be light.
May I glimpse you in all I meet.
May my hands be fo...
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1 Hearing Good News, heaven-bound,
setting foot on holy ground:
chosen, gifted, born anew:
Spirit, she belong...
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There are stages in my life when I have been strongly influenced by the Evangelical tradition, a tradition that has help...
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The comedian Brendan Grace has given us the urchin-like Dublin street child he names ‘Bottler.’ He once told of a co...
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Established in 1977, Four Rivers Bookshop is located in Griffith New South Wales.
The phrase ”Four Rivers...
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The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to b...
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Keep us, good Lord,
under the shadow of your mercy.
Sustain and support the anxious,
be with those who care for the s...
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Spiritual care practitioner Brenda Steward continues to visit patients at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, ...
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PSALM 124 A PILGRIM PSALM
DELIVERANCE AND DESTRUCTION: WILL WE WEATHER THE STORM?
For...
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New primate foresees time of change for national church
The Anglican Church of Canada’s new primate says her top prio...
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We are deeply saddened to hear that the Reverend Beth Spence has died after a short illness. Please pray for Beth's fami...
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PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 3 OCTOBER 2020
I’m not being positiv...
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Is God Male?
Kevin Giles
For the last forty years, the traditional way of speaking and thinking of God as a ...
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SATURDAY
Companion, Lover, open my heart,
and I shall embrace you, my beloved.
Grandfather, Grandmo...
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Kevin Giles Author
Penny Mulvey reviews his book
It is profoundly sad to even think there is a need for the bo...
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A PROTESTANT AND HER MOTHER MARY
M’Kenna Gillespie
One of last year's members of the Community of St A...
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Complementarians and Abuse of Women: Kevin Giles' Newest Book
Giles explores two church bodies: SBC a...
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PRAYER DIARY
Day 1
Lettie Allen, Margaret Annells, Jo Armour
Day 2
Sheridan Brand, Sandra Bryson
Day 3
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Dear MOW folk
A great warrior has passed from our earthly midst, Mavis Rose in Brisbane who died on Sept 27,(2019) ha...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, passed away Sept. 18, 2020
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop ...
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The Rev’d Caroline Pearce died peacefully on Tuesday 15 September 2020 in Adelaide.
Caroline grew up in Adelaide, w...
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TOWARDS ORDAINED MINISTRY
Living God, Communion of Eternal Love,
whose Word insists even while it whispers,
who...
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Alison McAllister
Alison worships at St Mary Magdalene's Anglican Church, which is located in the c...
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THE GEOGRAPHER
Cloistered in this one small cell
like a medieval monk, unarmed
but with scrolls of vellum
not to a...
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St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide presents a talk about one of its stained glass windows. This is one of a series of talks w...
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St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide presents a talk about one of its stained gl...
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St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide presents a talk about one of its stained glass windows. This is one of a series of talks w...
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At This Time
(Refrain) At this time of empty churches,
...
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Companioning God,
We pray for our sisters in ministry, giving thanks for the friendship and support that we offer eac...
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The Reverend Sal Tatchell is believed to be the first Anglican woman ordained in South Australia who has died.
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Barbara Harris, the first woman in the Anglican communion to be consecrated a bishop, died in March 2020. Two articles a...
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There have been some very public debates within the Church of Ireland and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland about the d...
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As my wife Penny and I approach our 35th wedding anniversary next month, we are increasingly aware of how our marriage h...
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The Reverend Dr Elizabeth Joyce Smith, AM “for significant service to the Anglican Church of Australia, and to liturgi...
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I began writing poetry in about 1989 and have enjoyed writing and reading it ever since. I read regularly at Friendly St...
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Tuesday
We stand in the presence of the One who is making us.
We stand in the presence of the One who is healing us...
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The Church of England’s first black female bishop has been appointed by Downing Street.
Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the cha...
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MOW was saddened to learn of the passing of Patricia Hayward on 1 January 2020.
Patricia was a committed supporter of...
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PRESIDENT’S REPORT AGM 2019
THE HANDOVER
Thank you to the Rev’d Pirrial Clift for handing over the business with g...
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I love the word bonkers. My mum used to say it all the time, and I just don’t seem to hear it often enough anymore. Th...
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It can be awkward, sometimes, for men to stand alongside women in the fight against patriarchy. They are, after all, ben...
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The Reverend Alison Cheek was a significant figure in the early days of the Movement for the Ordination of Women in Aust...
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2013 - 2014 was full of challenges as we sought our members’ approval to apply to become
registered as a Company Limi...
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AN ADDRESS TO THE MOVEMENT FOR THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
“Fathers, Heretics and the Failure of M...
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On 21st February, 2015 the Rev. Dr Keith Mascord gave very well attended public lecture in support of the Sydney Movemen...
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MOW Australia join the Australian Bishops, Clergy and Laity in mourning the death of the Rt Rev’d Barbara Brinsley Dar...
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Dear Archbishop Rowan,
Even though I’m not sending Christmas cards this year – ran out of time – you are not go...
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We are deeply saddened to hear that the Reverend Beth Spence has died after a short illness. Please pray for Beth's fami...
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The Venerable Alison Taylor, Melbourne's Archdeacon for International Partnerships and Vicar of St John's ...
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Article by Julia Baird marking 20 years of women priests in the Australian Anglican church.
Julia Baird argues in the...
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The following article by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch was published in the London Observer on 7 July 2012. At its Gener...
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In 2012 we celebrated 20 years since women were ordained to the priesthood in Australia. The focus for reflection on thi...
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MOWatch Inc celebrates the life of Diane Heath a leader in the Movement for the Ordination of Women both nationally and ...
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ALISON GENT passed away 13 November 2009. A woman of incredible faith and strength, who became a foundational member of ...
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MOWatch Incorporated mourns the loss of Patricia Brennan. Founding President of MOW (National) Inc. Patricia died on Sun...
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