Orthodox Women Speak Discerning the "Signs of the Time"

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Orthodox Women Speak: Discerning the "Signs of the Times"

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Preface by Aruna Gnanadason

Introduction by Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald

Address to the Istanbul Meeting by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Address to the Damascus Meeting by H.B. Ignatios IV

Report of the Damascus Meeting

Report of the Istanbul Meeting

Discerning Essential Concerns

Women in the Life of the Church by Sophie Deicha

Varieties of Gifts: Women's Ministries in the Contemporary Church by Despina D. Prassas

Women in Jesus' Earthly Life by Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

Love and Transformation: Women Who Met Jesus by Deborah Melacky Belonick

Women in the Early Christian Church by Demetra Koukoura

The Women in the Easter Narrative: Apostles of the Apostles by Constantina Peppa

Saints and Spirit-Bearers: Models for Orthodox Women by Mother Maria (Rule)

The Witness of Women Saints by Thamar Dasnabedian

The Meaning of Ministry by Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

St. Photini - The Woman at the Well: A Biblical Meditation by Thomas FitzGerald

Discerning from Experience

Growing Up Orthodox and Female: A Story from the Middle East by Maha Milki Wehbe

Growing Up Orthodox and Female: A Story from the West by Valerie Zahirsky

Growing Up Orthodox and Female: A Story from India by Shanti Verghese

Young Orthodox Women in Russia Today by Ekaterina Shibayeva

Orthodox Women in Theological Education by Christina Shaheen Reimann

Orthodox Women as Writers by Leonie B. Liveris

Human Sexuality and the Body: An Orthodox Perspective by Despina D. Prassas

Discerning through Contemporary Challenges

Orthodox Women in Ecumenical Dialogue by Teny Pirri-Simonian

Defining Ourselves as Orthodox Women by Marie Assaad

Women Deacons: A Brief Review of Ancient Evidence by Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald

The Priesthood of Women: A Look at Patristic Teaching by Constantinos N. Yokarinis

Women, Power, and Social Movements by Nicholas K. Apostola

Sexism as Sin: Essential Spiritual Considerations by Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald

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