Monday, March 06, 2006
More on women imams
Here's a link to my essay on the importance of the former mufti of marseilles following a woman imam (me!). It's been in a local paper, NUVO, and is on beliefnet now (linked to on the front page!)
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/186/story_18653_1.html
I was really sad that this column didn't get picked up by more news outlets. I'm hoping maybe some will still print it, as it talks about a year's worth of history since last March. The NUVO version draws some paralells between the Catholic women who were ordained in Canada last year. They are part of a movement that's been going on in Europe for 4-5 years. In doing research for this essay, I came across a story about Buddhist nuns being ordained for the first time in 1500 years.
It' is absolutely incredible to be part of a movement that cuts across religions and seems to be a groundswell of women standing up for themselves. ¶ 11:05 PM
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/186/story_18653_1.html
I was really sad that this column didn't get picked up by more news outlets. I'm hoping maybe some will still print it, as it talks about a year's worth of history since last March. The NUVO version draws some paralells between the Catholic women who were ordained in Canada last year. They are part of a movement that's been going on in Europe for 4-5 years. In doing research for this essay, I came across a story about Buddhist nuns being ordained for the first time in 1500 years.
It' is absolutely incredible to be part of a movement that cuts across religions and seems to be a groundswell of women standing up for themselves. ¶ 11:05 PM
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I'll bet if this had not been a first person narrative but had been written about you and the other women breaking new ground, it would have been picked up my more news groups.
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I'm sure that's true. I was asked to write it as a column (I write op-ed for the Religion News Service on a fairly regular basis). Kind of hard to write a news piece on yourself! lol. Also, to me the important stuff is not me or the personalities involved but the issues.
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