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Jennifer Rothschild. Jennifer Rothschild (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, podcast host, and founder of Fresh Grounded Faith events for women. She has written 19 books and Bible studies. Rothschild founded womensministry.net in 1998, an online leadership resource platform to provide resources to women in the local church.
New York Women's Rights Convention of 1866, New York, eleventh in the series. Washington Women's Rights Convention of 1869, Washington, D.C., twelfth in the series. International Congress of Women, general heading used since 1878 with the International Congress of Women's Rights, Paris. Jewish Women's Congress, 1893, Chicago, Illinois.
The National Women's Conference of 1977 was a four-day event during November 18–21, 1977, as organized by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. The conference drew around 2,000 delegates along with 15,000-20,000 observers in Houston, Texas, United States. [1] [2] The United States Congress approved $5 ...
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity ." [ 1]
Re-Imagining was a Minneapolis interfaith conference of clergy, laypeople, and feminist theologians in 1993 that stirred controversy in U.S. Mainline Protestant denominations, [1] ultimately resulting in the firing of the highest ranking woman in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). [2] Re-Imagining: A Global Theological Conference By Women: For ...
Church Women United (CWU) is a national ecumenical Christian women's movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women. Founded in 1941, as the United Council of Church Women , [1] this organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico .
In 2008, the UMC voted to affirm United Methodist Women's support for pro-choice positions and organizations. [5] In 2016, the General Conference voted in favor of United Methodist Women and the church's General Board of Church and Society withdrawing from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. [6]
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious ( LCWR) is one of two associations of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States (the other being the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious ). LCWR includes over 1300 members, who are members of 302 religious congregations that include 33,431 women religious ...