We cannot create rigid boundaries that miss the point by excluding people from God’s expansive, overarching love.

Christine

Schenk, C.S.J.

We cannot create rigid boundaries that miss the point by excluding people from God’s expansive, overarching love.

I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.

Mary M.

Doyle Roche

I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.

Knowing about Phoebe, the role she played in the early church, and Paul’s recognition of her, however, affirms my call and gives me hope!

Rose

Lue

Knowing about Phoebe, the role she played in the early church, and Paul’s recognition of her, however, affirms my call and gives me hope!

[Phoebe and Gregory] were, at heart, both deacons, and their hearts contained the Good News, the message of the Gospels.

Phyllis

Zagano

[Phoebe and Gregory] were, at heart, both deacons, and their hearts contained the Good News, the message of the Gospels.

We walk by faith and we know that the Holy Spirit will not deny what the Church needs.

Svea

Fraser, M.Div

We walk by faith and we know that the Holy Spirit will not deny what the Church needs.

Phoebe is another woman silenced in the lectionary, but who was not so silent in her own context. She was a woman of influence: minister, deacon, and sponsor of one of the earliest churches.

Carolyn

Osiek, RSCJ

Phoebe is another woman silenced in the lectionary, but who was not so silent in her own context. She was a woman of influence: minister, deacon, and sponsor of one of the earliest churches.