Workshop Choices: Ottawa 2005

Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW)
Second International Conference
Breaking Silence, Breaking Bread: Christ Calls Women to Lead
Ottawa, Canada
July 22 - 24, 2005

Workshop Choices: Ottawa 2005

Workshops and Panels

A. Breaking Silence - Reclaiming Her-story (A.M.)

B. Breaking Bread - Models of Ministry (A.M.)

C. Christ Calls - Vocations and Empowerment (P.M.)

D. Diversity - Breaking Boundaries (P.M.)

Please choose Two (2) workshops from either A or B, and Two (2) workshops from either C or D. You will be assigned to two of these four choices

A. Breaking Silence - Reclaiming Her-story (A.M.)

  • Regina Coupar: Born Again: Re-Conceiving Women's Stories
  • Bernice Santor: Some Women Amazed Us
  • Elaine Guillemin: She Insisted It Was So: Wo/men Re-telling Biblical Stories
  • Mary-Lynne Monroe: Regenesis: Restoring Women's Place in Creation
  • Jennifer Stark: Silencing Women in Revelation: A Hermeneutical Exploration of Vision, Text and Artistic Representation
  • Kim Vidal: The Moon Under Her Feet: Women of the Apocalypse
  • John N. Collins: Inescapable Connections between New Testament Diakonia, Women and Ordination
  • Karen Fitz La Barge: Women, the Prominent Apostles! The Scriptural Evidence for Women in Leadership
  • Doreen Wyatt: Negative Images of Women in the Church and their Destructive Power
  • Martha Ann Kirk, (the music of) Covita Moroney: Voices of Ancient Women Inviting Courage and Compassion
  • Dorothy Irvin: Women Priests and Bishops in the Early Church: the Archaeological Documentation

B. Breaking Bread - Models of Ministry (A.M.)

  • Miriam K. Martin: Leading from the Ground Up: Women Religious Working and Praying toward Women's Ordination
  • Ida Raming: Ordination Contra Legem - A Way to Overcome Discrimination Against Women in the Roman Catholic Church?
  • María Alma Chaires, Victoria María de León, Teresa Andrade García, Eustorgia Estrada: Luz y Libertad: Light and Liberty in Mexico
  • Valerie Bannert, Mary Ellen Nettle, Sharon Smith: For Heaven's Sake: The Church Uniting in Ministry
  • Angelika Fromm: Women in Leadership in a Diaconate-Based Church
  • Christine Mayr-Lumetzberge, Elisabeth Grossegger: A Priest in the Family: Repercussions and Support
  • Christine Mayr-Lumetzberge, Elisabeth Grossegger: A Priest in the Family: Repercussions and Support
  • Denise Donato, Mary Ramerman: Failure is Impossible: The Story of Two Women Catholic Priests
  • Pauline Jacob: Et si Dieu appelait des femmes à la prêtrise ou au Diaconat
  • Patricia Fresen: Training for the Priesthood: Women's Way of Preparing For, Living, and Enriching Priesthood
  • Chris Maunder, Pat Brown: Responding to WOW 2001 - Preparing a Course in Women's Ministry

C. Christ Calls - Vocations and Empowerment (P.M.)

  • Anne Cross, Michael Bold: Theology of Lay Liberation
  • Susan Williamson, Alison Gelder, Ian Smith: The True Nature of Eucharist
  • Angela Bonavoglia: Join the Change Makers: How Catholic Women are Fighting to Change the Church
  • Christina Cathro: Listening for the Echo: Giving Voice to Lesbian Spirituality
  • Deborah Halter: When Silence Is Not Golden: Evangelizing Female Defenders of a Male Priesthood
  • Judith Schleitwiler Wolicki, Mary Nichols Schleitwiler: Letting Go of the Fear: The Courage to Break Silence and Break Bread
  • Katherine Adolph, Jackie Frolick: The Work of Transforming Ourselves: Beyond Religion, Belief, and Faith
  • Joanna Manning: Erotic Justice: Commitment to Personal and Global Transformation
  • Chris Schenk: Women in Church Leadership: Tools for Transformation
  • Rosana Pellizari, Rosemary Ganley: A Better Sexual Ethic: Challenging Patriarchal Mores in Priestly Formation

D. Diversity - Breaking Boundaries (P.M.)

  • Joy Barnes: Breaking Boundaries through Ministry: Diversity in the Women's Ordination Movement
  • June Boyce-Tilman: Music and Transformation: Women, Music, and Transforming Church
  • Veronica Dunne: Virtual Communities: Cyberspace Rooms of Our Own
  • Jessica Fraser: Ecofeminism and Ministry: The Sacred Earth Calling Us Home
  • Eileen Kerwin-Jones: Breaking the Sexual Slave Trade: Breaking Silence: The Global Trafficking of Women
  • Sarah Samson: Gender and Christianity: Unité de recherche et documentation «genre» en Christianisme
  • Walda Taylor-Javier: Maintaining a Political Presence: A Lobbying Presence in Rome
  • Mary Schaefer: The Modes of Christ's Active Presence in the Liturgy: A Liturgical-Theological Case for Women's Ordination to Eucharistic Leadership