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Women's History Guide: Articles & Chapters

March is designated as Women's History Month. This guide is a celebration of the outstanding history of women within Methodism and in Garrett-Evangelical's history.

Current Women Faculty

Book Chapters by Current Women Faculty (Selected Titles)

"Pastoral Authority and Responsibility: An African Traditional Leadership Model for Church Governance and Functioning" by Esther E. Acolatse, in Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts: Methodology, Context, and Issues.

"A Womanist Reading of the Song of Songs in the Age of AIDS" by Cheryl B. Anderson, in The Five Scrolls.

"The Most Burning of Lavas: The Bible in Latin America" by Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, in Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South.

"The Prophet on the Margins" by Gennifer Benjamin Brooks, in Preaching Prophetic Care: Building Bridges to Justice.

"Just Aging: Practicing Pastoral Care with Older Adults" by Jaeyeon Lucy Chung, in Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care.

"Race and Reparations: The Material Logics of White Supremacy" by Jennifer Harvey, in Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: White People on What We Need to Do.

"Postcolonial Loss: Collective Grief in the Ruins of Militarized Terror" by Wonhee Anne Joh, in Critical Theology Against US Militarism in Asia : Decolonization and Deimperialization.

"Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague, 1527" by Anna Marie Johnson, in Pastoral Writings.

"Education in Resistance to Child Soldiering: A Latina Liberation Theology Perspective" by Débora B. A. Junker, in Female Child Soldiering, Gender Violence, and Feminist Theologies.

"Something Inside So Strong: Learning from the Freedom Schools Movement" by Virginia A. Lee, in Let Your Light Shine : Mobilizing for Justice with Children and Youth.

"Perspective Transformation for Professional Formation and Responsible Citizenship" by Kate M. Ott, in Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education: Embodied Learning, Trauma Sensitive Pedagogy, and Perspective Transformation.

"Singing Hope in the Key of Wisdom: Wisdom Formation of Youth" by Evelyn L. Parker, in In Search of Wisdom: Faith Formation in the Black Church.

"Feminist Perspectives in the Psychology of Religion" by Lallene J. Rector, in Psychological Perspectives and the Religious Quest.

"Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: Letters to Women who Hold up the Moon" by Mai-Anh Le Tran, in Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion : Embodying Knowledge.

Women's History Databases (Selected Titles)